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Our biggest stories of the past week are …  Why should we innovate? I was talking at a conference and a regulator was on the panel. The panel chair asked him: “should we think about innovation first or regulation?” and he responded by saying: “It is not a question of regulation or innovation… Too fast…

Our biggest stories of the past week are …  Jesus Christ Superstar, and the Occupy Movement  I recently went to see the latest revival of Andrew Lloyd-Weber’s Jesus Christ, Superstar. The new version of the musical toured the UK’s largest Arenas, with an all-star cast and a lengthy TV audition show to select the man…

The Finanser has been nominated for a major Award as the best financial blog.  We would really appreciate your vote if you want to make one 🙂  To vote click here.  Our biggest stories of the past week are …  A hundred years of cash A hundred years ago, things were different but the same. We…

This week was dedicated to SIBOS, the annual SWIFT tradeshow, conference, exhibition and all around banker's jamboree.  Here's a summary of the whole week: Welcome to SIBOS 2012 So here we are, a few of us anyway, at SIBOS 2012 in Osaka, Japan. Morning impressions in the land of the rising sun The theme of…

Our biggest stories of the past week are …  Osaka, here we come! Many of us are gearing up for this year’s SIBOS – the big SWIFT jamboree that gathers all those involved in payments worldwide … whoops, involved in transaction processing worldwide. This year it’s in Osaka, Japan, and I’m on my… An interview…

Our biggest stories of the past week are …  The World Payments Report 2012, Part One The World Payments Report (WPR) has just come out. It is the 8th report produced by EFMA, in partnership with Cap Gemini and the Royal Bank of Scotland (ABN AMRO previously), and provides a good analysis of global payments…

Our biggest stories of the past week are …  This week featured a five part series on the future of the bank branch: Part One: One banker knows his industry is trashed, and here's his plan I often present around the depressed state of the banking markets. Usually, it’s a political and economic overview of…

Our biggest stories of the past week are …  Money and rumpy pumpy A while ago David Birch, he of the geek #1 fame, said to me that all new forms of commerce are created by games, girls and gambling, and the more I think about it, the more true I see this… A few…

Our biggest stories of the past week are …  The similarities between internet blocks and trade sanctions  I spent last week in the Middle East, travelling the region and seeing some sights as well as meeting many banks from across the region. As always, it’s an interesting space and place, full of Eastern promise as…

Our biggest stories of the past week are …  What Star Trek tells us about banking For years, I’ve been a fan of Star Trek, and have used their innovations in many presentations, but I’ve always wondered: how come there’s no money on the Star Ship Enterprise? Is everything free? Not exactly. My supposition was…