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What would Scottish Independence mean for banking?

It’s the height of summer and most people are out of town, so a time for quiet reflection for those of us left around. In my case, I started reflecting upon Scottish devolution. The vote is not far away now – September 18th – and the arguments rage this way and that. Could there really…

Salmond

Russian sanctions – are they worth it?

The BBC recently asked me about the impact Russian sanctions would have on the City of London last week, followed up by European CEO, who interviewed me on the subject. My view is that sanctions are no good for anyone. The reason I say sanctions are not good is that it ends up in a tit-for-tat…

Russian sanctions – are they worth it?

The BBC recently asked me about the impact Russian sanctions would have on the City of London last week, followed up by European CEO, who interviewed me on the subject. My view is that sanctions are no good for anyone. The reason I say sanctions are not good is that it ends up in a tit-for-tat…

Technology: taming the risk beast

After outlining the four main buckets of risk that banks have to tame: market, credit, liquidity and operational; the real issue is the bank’s structure. Historically, banks have been built in product silos and hence there is no sense of enterprise risk. The retail and commercial bank secures funding through the investment bank, but none…

Technology: taming the risk beast

After outlining the four main buckets of risk that banks have to tame: market, credit, liquidity and operational; the real issue is the bank’s structure. Historically, banks have been built in product silos and hence there is no sense of enterprise risk. The retail and commercial bank secures funding through the investment bank, but none…

Risk: the Nature of the Beast

When I first started working in banking, I didn't have much idea about risk, Then I was told about market and credit risk, the two major forms of trading risk in the mainstream markets. Put simply: market risk is the risk of losses from trading whilst credit risk is the risk of the counterparty being…

UK takes a lead in addressing the ‘casino capitalist’ culture

After the huge arguments between London and Brussels over bankers’ bonus levels, where the UK has argued Europe is encouraging our bankers to leave and go to Geneva, New York and Hong Kong, we have now responded by introducing levels of punishment for financial wrongdoing that far outstrips those in Geneva, New York and Hong…

Casino capitalism

Are you a career optimist or a headless chicken?

I just read some interesting research by the Bank Workers Charity, a charity set up over a century ago to provide education to orphans but, today, a charity that looks after the needs of redundant or sick (not cool, but ill) workers in finance. They’ve been very busy lately. One of the more interesting things…

Types of bank worker

Banks need rock star coders to survive

I was having a debate the other day with two bank CEOs. One runs a direct bank that is going digital and the other runs a branch based bank that is investing in digital. At one point in the conversation, we got into a discussion about coders and, in a surprisingly frank dialogue, both CEOs…

Satoshi

The biggest barrier to clouds in banking is the banks themselves

Returning to the subject of cloud computing, I mentioned that it is starting to succeed by being more relevant through a vertical focus, but there is still more to be done for cloud to truly take off in banking. In particular, most banks have a concern about the risk of cloud and who is accountable. …

John Finch, CIO of the Bank of England was speaking at the Cloud World Forum in London on Wednesday

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