I recently had an epiphany. It was not painful, but it was enlightening. The realisation occurred to me as I looked at this chart from Zopa: It’s an interesting chart, especially the hockey stick rise in funds transferred as the financial crisis hit, and relates to a recent headline in the Financial Times: “P2P group…
I recently had an epiphany. It was not painful, but it was enlightening. The realisation occurred to me as I looked at this chart from Zopa: It’s an interesting chart, especially the hockey stick rise in funds transferred as the financial crisis hit, and relates to a recent headline in the Financial Times: “P2P group…
Another dimension of discussion at the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery conference was the whole area of hacktivism and cyberattacks. We all know that the cybercriminals are organising cybergangs of cyberteenagers to cyberattack the cyberbanks (ed: isn’t that too many cybers for a Friday morning?). This was illustrated well by the figures I gave yesterday…
So I just finished presenting at a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery conference. Not my strongest subject although, after years of battering my liver with alcohol, I am pretty adept at Disaster Recovery. Anyways, not knowing much about the subject, I just called the presentation Life’s a Glitch, as there appear to be so many…
So I just finished presenting at a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery conference. Not my strongest subject although, after years of battering my liver with alcohol, I am pretty adept at Disaster Recovery. Anyways, not knowing much about the subject, I just called the presentation Life’s a Glitch, as there appear to be so many…
Investment banking as a sector looks to have a much more positive outlook this year than in previous years. The year will see the implementation of a lot of the regulatory changes formulated since the crisis hit, and a marketplace that is starting to settle into the new normal, whatever that is. From a general…
As we enjoy the headlines coming out of CES in San Francisco: Android device sales 'to top one billion' in 2014 Google Glass-controlled treadmill debuts at CES 2014 Samsung unveils new Galaxy NotePro and TabPro tablets Samsung shows off its Bendable TV Michael Bay walks out of CES after fluffing Samsung TV presentation LG shows off first…
Just before Christmas, I held discussions with many retail, commercial and investment bankers in London about their thoughts for the New Year. Here are the headlines: Economy In the UK, 2014 is the year of the next general election which must be called on or before May 2015, and that factor will be a key…
This is my penultimate review of 2013, as we head towards the shutdown season, so here goes 2013 was the year of meditation. Banks had the chance to think, reflect, plan and look ahead. After five years of manic panic, hysteria, anger, fear, angst and doubt, 2013 was the first year we could actually have…
Still busy in the Financial Services Club world with meetings in Stockholm, Vienna, Warsaw and London all in the past two weeks. The interesting theme of all these meetings, and those in our future plans, is the digitisation of banking. Most notably, the Chi-x BAT effect noted in our Stockholm launch meeting of the Nordic Financial…
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