New customers will be able to get their account, chequebook, debit and credit CARDS within 15 minutes, and all the data for each customer will be kept in one place.
Last year, Mr Ma declared a "diplomatic truce", meaning an end to the chequebook contest for recognition.
To his consternation, he realized that he had left his chequebook at home.
Call it chequebook expiation, kill and pay: it clearly works.
Vince Cable, the business secretary, says the government will not “wave a chequebook” at industry.
Wenger has often been prudent with his funds and he feels Chelsea paid too much, but would rather have seen them keep the chequebook closed.
Thomson later admitted, in perhaps an early example of "chequebook journalism", that he had paid the woman "handsomely" to expose her withered foot.