I was asked to make a presentation today about “Is the growth story still on?” at a banking conference. Making a presentation about growth at a banking conference right now seemed like a bit of joke, but there you go. Luckily, most of the audience were from Asia and Latin America, and therefore less affected…
With SEPA, the PSD and MiFID all paling into relative insignificance as the major banking markets explode globally, there are questions about whether the European plan will succeed or is even needed now. Therefore, I’ll be really interested to hear what Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has to say when he launches the 2008-09 season of the…
With SEPA, the PSD and MiFID all paling into relative insignificance as the major banking markets explode globally, there are questions about whether the European plan will succeed or is even needed now. Therefore, I’ll be really interested to hear what Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has to say when he launches the 2008-09 season of the…
Last week was probably the most dynamic and heartstoppingly frightening any of us have seen in our lifetimes in financial services. The fact we were all in Vienna, and therefore somewhat protected from the ups and downs of Wall Street and the City, did not make it feel that much better when you return to…
Last week was probably the most dynamic and heartstoppingly frightening any of us have seen in our lifetimes in financial services. The fact we were all in Vienna, and therefore somewhat protected from the ups and downs of Wall Street and the City, did not make it feel that much better when you return to…
Last week was probably the most dynamic and heartstoppingly frightening any of us have seen in our lifetimes in financial services. The fact we were all in Vienna, and therefore somewhat protected from the ups and downs of Wall Street and the City, did not make it feel that much better when you return to…
So, the morning goes on, more dialogue and more debate. The highlight of the week so far, for me anyway, came with the session entitled: "This House believes that Hedge Funds are the root of all evil?" if nothing else, for the title. The moderator of the session was Julian Tregoning, a Director with the…
So, the morning goes on, more dialogue and more debate. The highlight of the week so far, for me anyway, came with the session entitled: "This House believes that Hedge Funds are the root of all evil?" if nothing else, for the title. The moderator of the session was Julian Tregoning, a Director with the…
So, the morning goes on, more dialogue and more debate. The highlight of the week so far, for me anyway, came with the session entitled: "This House believes that Hedge Funds are the root of all evil?" if nothing else, for the title. The moderator of the session was Julian Tregoning, a Director with the…
Apart from lots more networking, I attended three more sessions in this final half of the day. One had to be Matteo Rizzi’s discussion of SWIFTcommunity.net of course. Matteo runs this community for SWIFT and was discussing progress one year on since the launch at SIBOS Boston last year. Apparently, the SWIFT site has around…
