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The digital head of Mashreq, the UAE's oldest private bank, tells Computer Weekly about his role as half banker, half techie.

Mashreq is the oldest privately owned bank in the UAE – but that’s about the only thing that’s antiquated about the company.

[nataliaditto]

Open source storage has gained mainstream acceptance in high performance computing, analytics, object storage, cloud (OpenStack) and NAS use, but can it crack the enterprise?

[dittopress-blog]

Open source storage has gained mainstream acceptance in high performance computing, analytics, object storage, cloud (OpenStack) and NAS use, but can it crack the enterprise?

[suppliertynews]

[#GettingMoreWomenIntoTech] Using a #hashtag to take diversity awareness global

The recruitment company Structur3dpeople used social media outlets to showcase women who are working in tech and spread the awareness of diversity in the tech through an online campaign. The campaign was called the Tech Role Model campaign which was launched in 2005 through partnership with TechUK. It promotes women in tech while encouraging them to share pictures of themselves including job title, name and the hashtag #GettingMoreWomenIntoTech.

[dmcrun-blog]

[Blog] Hands-on with the Blackberry Q10 for Computer Weekly

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[hackingfinance]

The premise is that Fidor Bank, which is built around Web 2.0 and social media, has three engagement models. These begin with a community where people talk about finance and share experiences; then there is the opportunity for these members to use Fidor’s payment services; and finally they can become a full retail banking customer with a current account, loans and savings. Currently, about 70% of the community have used the payments service and about 30% bank with Fidor. It is not just a consumer-focused bank either. Fidor has its own core banking software and is open to third-party suppliers to integrate applications into it. It also offers businesses its technology as a white label service. For example, it recently signed a major contract to set up a global payments service for a business customer in Germany. Fidor currently has more than 200,000 people registered and 150,000 community members. It has €160m worth of deposits, and its lending totals about €100m. With only 34 staff, no branches and a cost of only €3.50 to set up a customer with full banking, the overheads are low compared with traditional banks. But in contrast to existing banks, trust is high. This addresses the challenges facing most banks at present – those of cutting costs and increasing trust. Fidor has no sales staff – it relies totally on recommendations from its community. “This is crowdsourcing. We let the customers talk about Fidor Bank. We share our experiences of all parts of life,” says Kroner.

Technology you can bank on

Great review from Computer Weekly of @anthemis company Fidor Bank.

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Computer Weekly | Social Media Awards 2011

Would you please vote in the category Social Media (private sector) for my co-workers in this LinkedIn Group: click the heading below to go to the voting page.

T H E    B U S I N E S S    T E C H N O L O G Y    F O R U M 

We've been working on this group for over 18 months.  

Owned by Dave Sumner Smith & Mike Briercliffe, it is sponsored by The Oracle Corp, to reach out to the business community and IT professionals in particular... to listen to what the market is saying about various topics.  It provides answers to questions and it watches carefully for trends.

We've worked really hard over the last 18+ months to make this a vibrant and dynamic on-line community.

I extend the thanks of the Team to @LadyBizBiz for her training and supervision: we have exceeded all expectations and the group is now 17,000 members and growing. 

Thanks too are due to the top-notch mavens and content writers, along with the group owners who have reached out to all the world and brought them within this robust and healthy community! 

Keep your fingers crossed for us - it's now down to the public vote.