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By Colin Hendersion - Observations made at LIFT07 on structural reasons why Banks may not be able to compete with Social Lending. Speaker notes to Can Bankers be bloggers too here

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The UpDown plans to single out the members whose imaginary portfolios show the best performance and use their strategies to manage a real stock fund seeded by Swiss angel investor Joachim Schoss.

Revenues from the fund will be used to operate the company and reward the top performers.

An RSS feed aggregated a collection of posts on banking (mostly retail and payments)

excerpt from site

Know where
your money goes!

Effortlessly track and visualize your spending.
Visualize those dreadful credit card statements in
exciting new ways.

a social lending service for facebook users analysed here (US, launched 25 May, 2007)

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The idea is to have an online community currency. (Or, hundreds of them.) Joining LETS and GETS by doing

Saving Will Never Be The Same!™

SmartyPig is a simple, smart, fun way to save for a specific goal. Using groundbreaking technology and the latest in security standards, SmartyPig allows you to invite family and friends to contribute to your account, gives you additional incentive boosts from top retailers who sell exactly what you’re saving for AND *4.30% (APY) interest on the money you’re saving. Simple, Smart, Savings. SmartyPig!

The UpDown plans to single out the members whose imaginary portfolios show the best performance and use their strategies to manage a real stock fund seeded by Swiss angel investor Joachim Schoss.

Revenues from the fund will be used to operate the company and reward the top performers.

The trimmed down version of the BankStatic All Star Feed

excerpt from site

Know where
your money goes!

Effortlessly track and visualize your spending.
Visualize those dreadful credit card statements in
exciting new ways.

a social lending service for facebook users analysed here (US, launched 25 May, 2007)

The idea is to have an online community currency. (Or, hundreds of them.) Joining LETS and GETS by doing

What would you do with $10,000 towards your business idea?

The trimmed down version of the BankStatic All Star Feed