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Co-op Financial Services' mail goes digital in £12m deal

News Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) has signed a £12m deal with Xerox to digitise its mail-sorting processes. The company, which brings together Co-operative Insurance, The Co-operative Banks and online bank Smile and is owned by the Co-operative...

Tags: document management, xerox, co-op

[15 Apr 2008]

Electric Co-op Operator Moves from NetWare to Windows 2000 Server for Speed, Reliability, Security, and $1.2+ Million in Savings

whitepaper Georgia System Operations Corporation (GSOC), the largest electric cooperative operator in the United States, was suffering with a Novell NetWare environment that failed to provide the performance, reliability, and security that the company needed.

Tags: upgrades and migration, united states, novell netware, failed

[10 Apr 2008]

Trade Promotions in the Sarbanes-Oxley Era

whitepaper It also explains how to make sure your internal processes and controls and technology for capturing, tracking and analyzing co-op/MDF funds are up to this task. This webcast discusses what steps you need to take to achieve full compliance with...

Tags: finance, sarbanes oxley, programs, task

[10 Apr 2008]

How to Get to the Numbers that Matter in Retail

whitepaper Co-op funds and vendor advertising support This white paper reviews various aspects of retail financial management and draws important lessons for small and mid-size retailers. It addresses a wide range of topics that impact a retailer's financial...

Tags: crm software, sarbanes oxley, financial management, compliance

[03 Jan 2008]

Virtual staff speed up bank queues

Case Study Co-operative Financial Services has automated a credit checking process to free up staff and help treat customers consistently. Joanne Master, business systems manager at Co-operative Financial Services, told silicon.com: "It doesn't matter how...

Tags: virtual, credit, bank, automated

[31 Aug 2007]

Co-op Group polls customers at the till

News Convenience store retailer Co-op Group is using its electronic point-of-sale (Epos) system to save money on customer satisfaction surveys. Co-op Group is one of the few retailers to add such a feature to date.

Tags: chip and pin, customer satisfaction, epos, co-op

[10 Aug 2007]

Web 2.0 generation expect work on their terms

News It's time for a new operating model; an IT care co-op is the solution. The UK's business leaders are being warned they must embrace flexible working and consumer technologies if they are to attract and retain the next generation of workers.

Tags: social network, wikis, web 2.0

[09 Aug 2007]

Co-op to axe 1,000 jobs in £100m efficiency drive

News Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) is to cut 1,000 jobs this year as part of plans to reduce operating costs by £100m by the end of June 2008 but will also boost investment in new technology. The next stage of development following the...

Tags: co-op, co-operative financial services

[20 Jul 2007]

Retailers fill their baskets with tech

News Midlands Co-op has installed a supply chain management system from Aldata to manage orders, store inventory, replenishment, point of sale and payments. It's been a busy week for the UK's shopping giants - the Retail Solutions show in Birmingham...

Tags: retail

[07 Jun 2007]

Co-op Bank extends mortgage tech deal

News TE has provided Co-op Bank with a managed software support service since it entered the UK mortgage market six years ago - originally with TE acquisition Attentive - and now extends into hardware support and the provision of a mortgage sales portal.

Tags: banking, co-operative bank, outsourcing

[27 Apr 2007]

How mobile is your corner shop?

Comment It's not before time for Co-op, Costcutter, Londis, Nisa-Today's, Spar and about 9,000 independent corner shops to start mining the CRM benefits of a loyalty card system, with other supermarkets years ahead of them.silicon.com Retail & Leisure

Tags: retail

[13 Apr 2007]

Co-op inks £100m extension to Xansa deal

News Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) has signed an extension worth up to £100m over the next five years to its outsourcing contract with Xansa that will result in more work being sent overseas to India.

Tags: co-operative financial services, xansa

[02 Apr 2007]

Move to Windows Eliminates $2.3 Million Mainframe Cost for Credit Union Network

whitepaper CO-OP Financial Services, the nation's largest credit union - owned electronic funds transfer network and processor, was spending U.S.million per year to keep its shared branching transaction processing system on a Unisys mainframe.

Tags: mainframe, microsoft windows server, transaction, throughput

[02 Feb 2007]

Re:Viewing 2006: The year in retail and leisure

Re:Viewing 2006: The year in retail and leisure

News Trials of fingerprint payments kicked off in Oxford's Co-op stores in March and the supermarket subsequently doubled the number of stores with the fingerprint payment tech in July. Chip and PIN. RFID.

Tags: 2006, chip and pin, rfid, tesco

[18 Dec 2006]

Saraswat Bank Boosts Profit by 40%, Growth by 30% With Support From Centralized Banking Platform

whitepaper Founded in 1918 as the Saraswat Co-operative Banking Society, the Saraswat Co-op Bank is the largest cooperative bank in Asia. Like many Indian banks, Saraswat's investments in IT were small before the country's economic liberalization process...

Tags: database management, banking, bank, banks

[07 Dec 2006]

Co-op takes warehouse wireless

News Co-op is installing wireless scanning and product picking technology at its warehouse in Ipswich. East Anglia Federal Co-Op Society is spending £210,000 to install Vocollect's voice picking technology and Psion Teklogix's Workabout Pro handhelds...

Tags: wireless

[14 Aug 2006]

Plastic for the people - cash ditched for cards

News The Co-op for example is piloting a biometric fingerprint payment system. People are spending more money with plastic cards than ever before, new research has revealed. According to figures from banking industry body Apacs, consumers spent a record...

Tags: cards

[01 Aug 2006]

Co-op doubles fingerprint payment supermarkets

News A Mid Counties Co-op spokesman told silicon.com the society has extended the trial to get a better insight into customer opinions. According to the Co-op, using Pay by Touch is 20 per cent quicker than using chip and PIN.

Tags: co-op, mid counties, biometrics, fingerprint

[24 Jul 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: China's education in transition

Comment One or two of the smartest might aspire to a job in the local co-op, government offices or utilities. Written at the Beijing airport and despatched via a for-pay wi-fi service in the BA lounge. But then I discovered another five signals and the...

Tags: education, china

[19 Jul 2006]

Paying by iris and fingerprint - the next chip and PIN?

Paying by iris and fingerprint - the next chip and PIN?

News Shoppers in Oxford started to pay with their fingers this month, as the Co-op launched its trial of a biometric fingerprint payment system. The scanner allows consumers to link their fingerprint to credit or debit card accounts when paying for...

Tags: biometrics, chip and pin

[14 Mar 2006]

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