Blog Index

Our biggest stories of the week are … Eurozone crisis threatens SEPA The euro zone crisis threatens to derail the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), according to a new research paper. Challenging those who separate the crisis from SEPA preparations, The Eurozone, the ECB and the feasibility of SEPA: an overview, says the Sepa policy objectives…

For those who are that interested, here are all the blog entries made during the week at SIBOS in one place …   SIBOS 2011 – what will be the big themes? We should be talking about risk. And so SIBOS begins First impressions. Brett King launches Movenbank at #sibos #innotribe Brett King, author of Bank 2.0, is…

Our biggest stories of the week are … PayPal's ubiquitous vision A couple of interesting posts about PayPal this week. First, they presented their ideas about competing with Visa and MasterCard at physical points-of-sale. This was followed up by a blog post from PayPal President Scott Thompson, PayPal Unveils the Future of Shopping. Why most banks'…

Our biggest stories of the week are … Who owns Iceland?   I'm in Iceland this week, and there's a fascinating split across the country over xenophobia and sovereign rights.  This is because, post the financial crisis, the country is selling its prized assets from energy to land, acre by acre, kilowatt by kilowatt.  Is this…

The biggest news stories of the week include … Customer segmentation in retail banking  Adkit, an international research firm, just sent me their insights into customer segmentation in retail banking. It’s an interesting report summarised in a 21-slide presentation. The main results show that most banks are narrowing down to three or four key… Finformation…

  Our biggest stories of the week are … Data can be currency, just like salt We are living in times where I often talk about data being our new currency, and that data is more valuable than money or gold in the context of modern life. This may sound like a joke, but historically…

Our biggest stories of the week are … Do you know what this number means?  So I’m walking around New York and stumble across Broadway and 32nd where this billboard is over Penn Station’s subway entrance: Now I am confused on so many levels. First, who’s that woman covering up her breasts? Isn’t America the……

Our biggest stories of the week are … Do you know what this number means?  So I’m walking around New York and stumble across Broadway and 32nd where this billboard is over Penn Station’s subway entrance: Now I am confused on so many levels. First, who’s that woman covering up her breasts? Isn’t America the……

Our biggest stories of the week are … Banks need to radically shake up and wake up Frank Partnoy wrote a fascinating opinion piece in yesterday’s FT about the coming world of smaller banks. In the article, he compares HSBC with Google and asks why Google generates as much, if not more, value than the…

  Our biggest stories of the week are … Is this the end of the euro? For the past two years, we have performed a major survey around the euro and European payments. The survey for 2011 is ending on 9th August: click here to take survey and click here to see the last two years of results. The…