We started the new season of the Financial Services Club last night with meetings in both London and Edinburgh. The Financial Services Club runs from autumn to summer, and this is our 12th year of operation after starting our first meetings in London in 2004. Now in 8 countries and possibly more to come, the…
In our annual opening meeting at the Financial Services Club David Doyle, Policy Adviser on all matters to do with EU Regulations, gave us a swift canter through the key headlines in European financial markets focus for 2015. These included the guiding principles that: All that is of systemic importance should be regulated and supervised…
In the third Financial Services Club meeting last week (the other two took place in London and Warsaw), we had a conference in Edinburgh: Fintech2014, in partnership with Scot-Tech. Our checkin folks are real apparitions these days? The conference was ably chaired by Mark Stephen of BBC Scotland, and had myself speaking alongside Susanne Chishti, a…
We had a revival of the Innotribe from SIBOS on Monday, by gathering the great and the good to discuss cryptocurrencies at the Escalator, an incubator for new fintech start-ups in East London run by Barclays Bank (if you want a primer on this, see Learn Cryptography). The session was led by Richard Brown, Executive…
So it’s been another busy week with Financial Services Club meetings in London, Edinburgh and Warsaw. I’ll summarise each one over the next week, but will begin with our meeting in Warsaw which saw John Rendall, CEO of HSBC Polska, presenting his impressions of banking in Poland (see my blog from SIBOS for more background)….
We had a very succesfful third meeting of the Financial Services Club Nordic Region in Stockholm the other night (checkout what happened at the first and second meetings if of interest). The focus was upon innovation and, specifically, innovation in payments with presentations from: Lazaro Campos, former CEO, SWIFT; Richard Jones, Head of Industry Business Development,…
As mentioned yesterday, banks are not sleeping ostriches but are very awake to the digital revolution. In fact, many are investing in that revolution with four incumbent banks standing out on my radar for their investments in these efforts. The first of these is Sberbank, mainly because two friends of mine are running their venture…
In late 2013, we researched the views of how payments markets are responding to change. The results are intriguing, so here’s the management summary. If you would like a free copy of the report, just download here. In late 2013, the Financial Services Club ran an online survey, in collaboration with Cognizant and VocaLink, about…
In late 2013, we researched the views of how payments markets are responding to change. The results are intriguing, so here’s the management summary. If you would like a free copy of the report, just download here. In late 2013, the Financial Services Club ran an online survey, in collaboration with Cognizant and VocaLink, about…
After yesterday’s post about KYC, PEPs and AML, someone said: “so what’s the point Chris?” @FSClub not quite sure of the point you are making here. Money L bad. Hard to catch. Harder if not in official channels. It was ever thus? — Julian Lee (@JulianDDLee) May 8, 2014 The point of yesterday’s blog was…
