2012 is here and we all hope it’s better than 2011. Sure, some of you may have had a very good last year, but most thought it pretty dire with job losses, austerity measures, civil uprisings, protests, a second financial crisis in the Eurozone and more being the name of the day. Time Magazine named…
I was honoured to be the guest speaker for the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists at their Quarterly Lunch yesterday. The lunch was held at the Tallow Chandlers' Halls in the City … … although the technologists are not candlestick makers, they know where to have a party. Anyways, in the spirits of keeping my…
Last night was the occasion of the Sir John Gresham annual lecture. This year it was held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Canary Wharf with the keynote speaker being Andrew Haldane, or Andy as is the preference, Executive Director for Financial Stability with the Bank of England. Andy is speaking at the Financial Services…
Another conference focused upon financial innovation today, and all the talk is about mobile stuff, Google Wallets, mobile stuff, Banksimple, mobile stuff and Movenbank. I’m regularly stressing today that we must:: stop talking about mobile; and talk about the point-of-life. First, stop talking about mobile stuff. The fixation with mobile is because it’s finally come…
Talking with some of the Financial Services Club sponsors last week, it is clear that there is still a debate raging about the future of cash. Like the future of branches, which both Brett King and I discuss endlessly, cash is one of the other traditional bastions of the old guard of financial servicing. Yet…
Talking with some of the Financial Services Club sponsors last week, it is clear that there is still a debate raging about the future of cash. Like the future of branches, which both Brett King and I discuss endlessly, cash is one of the other traditional bastions of the old guard of financial servicing. Yet…
I just spent the day in a payments conference focused upon operational excellence. We talked about Basel III, SEPA, the PSD, Mobile … the usual stuff, but there was a particularly intriguing presentation from Olivier Denecker of McKinsey in the morning session on what operational excellence in payments is all about. I took a whole…
I mentioned I was in Iceland last week, and was interested to find out what the banks were thinking. We only ever hear of Iceland’s woes and troubles, and so the ability to see first-hand what was happening to the banks was one that could not be ignored. According to Wikipedia, there are only a few…
I mentioned I was in Iceland last week, and was interested to find out what the banks were thinking. We only ever hear of Iceland’s woes and troubles, and so the ability to see first-hand what was happening to the banks was one that could not be ignored. According to Wikipedia, there are only a few…
