We hosted Errol Damelin, Chief Executive and Founder of Wonga as our keynote guest at the London Financial Services Club last week, to end our season of meetings for the 2012-2013 season (2013-2014 season about to be announced). Errol is someone I met when Wonga first started its journey towards becoming a core big brand…
I remember in one of our early Financial Services Club meetings, a member of the UK Government’s Treasury Select Committee asking our attentive throng: can any of you explain APR to me? Not a single person in the room raised a hand. This is either because no-one wanted to answer the question or no-one could….
We had another round of debate about fixing the banking system at the Financial Services Club this week (read Part One here). This time it was the turn of the shareholder, media and industry to air their views, ably represented by: David O'Hara, Shareholder and Activist Investor, Blackthorn Focus; Nick Kochan, Author and Journalist; and…
We had another round of debate about fixing the banking system at the Financial Services Club this week (read Part One here). This time it was the turn of the shareholder, media and industry to air their views, ably represented by: David O'Hara, Shareholder and Activist Investor, Blackthorn Focus; Nick Kochan, Author and Journalist; and…
For the fifth year, the Financial Services Club ran a survey of payments professionals worldwide to see how successfully regulations and technologies are changing the European payments landscape, sponsored by CGI and EBA CLEARING. The survey ran during the spring of 2013, and was completed by 422 participants across over…
We had a fascinating insight into the issue of swaps mis-selling from Jeremy Roe last night at the Financial Services Club. Jeremy was a victim of the process and has been championing the cause ever since. He now counts 1,200 companies in his group, Bully Banks, out of the 40,000 cases that have been identified…
We had our inaugural meeting of the Financial Services Club Poland last night at the British Embassy in Warsaw. It was an amazing evening with a packed audience comprising many of the Presidents of Polish Banks, as well as banks based in Warsaw from overseas like Deutsche Bank, Saxo Bank and ICBC (the Chinese banks…
We had our inaugural meeting of the Financial Services Club Poland last night at the British Embassy in Warsaw. It was an amazing evening with a packed audience comprising many of the Presidents of Polish Banks, as well as banks based in Warsaw from overseas like Deutsche Bank, Saxo Bank and ICBC (the Chinese banks…
Whither the economic outlook? A speech by Professor Grzegorz Kolodko, former Deputy Premier of Poland given at the opening of the Financial Services Club, Poland Note: These are the impressions gained from the speech of Professor Kolodko and not an actual transcript of his speech. Good evening and thank you to the British Embassy and…
