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Posted on 26/04/2019
In Business SMS, Financial Services

Every business can use SMS to enhance their business, and they have been doing exactly that for the past couple of decades, finding new and innovative ways to harness the power of business SMS. However one sector in particular that is now really getting onboard with business SMS, is the financial sector. We are now not only getting more familiar with an SMS business experience, but we are starting to expect it. The convenience, speed and familiarity of SMS, means that it is fast becoming customers preferred choice of communicating. Nothing represents this more, than the adoption of this communication method by the financial services sector. When it comes to our money and more serious matters, we are rightly more cautious. But SMS is enabling the financial sector to engage with its customers in a secure digital environment that benefits all parties. Paper based communication can be expensive and ineffective, where with the...

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Posted on 27/11/2018
In Business SMS

Hard cash, sterling, money, notes and coins have been a part of our everyday lives for centuries, the idea of leaving the house and heading to a store without them would have seemed like madness years ago, however billions of cashless transactions are now taking place everyday. One in five Brits never carries cash, they want to pay by their contactless card, or by their smartphone, with half of Brits surveyed by First Bus stating that ‘cash is on the way out.’ Retailers have led the way in already adjusting their payment options to suit the modern day customer, and those that have, have seen huge benefits and uplifts. 39% of 2017 Black Friday sales were made through a smartphone, making it the device of choice beating the desktop and tablet to the lion share of the sales. (Source: IMRG) Mobile banking is now huge. More and more of us are engaged with...

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