I was engaged in a lengthy conversation about mobile finance the other day. Half way through, it finally hit me why mobile makes such a difference to our lives: it’s real-time. I’ve thought this for a while, but it is becoming more and more obvious why mobile money in real-time changes the game and here’s…
Yesterday morning I attended a seminar on bank brands. I’ll blog a bit about that later but there was one part that I found fairly intriguing that had to do with the overall value of bank brands returning to near 2007 highs, including those of the British banks. Sure, these banks had taken a knock,…
Yesterday morning I attended a seminar on bank brands. I’ll blog a bit about that later but there was one part that I found fairly intriguing that had to do with the overall value of bank brands returning to near 2007 highs, including those of the British banks. Sure, these banks had taken a knock,…
So George Osborne, the UK Chancellor, made a big speech at JPMorgan’s HQ in Bournemouth yesterday. The speech announced the details of the UK Banking Reform Bill which will implement the recommendations of the Vickers’ Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) for ring fencing, account switching and more. The speech is based upon four foundation principles…
So George Osborne, the UK Chancellor, made a big speech at JPMorgan’s HQ in Bournemouth yesterday. The speech announced the details of the UK Banking Reform Bill which will implement the recommendations of the Vickers’ Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) for ring fencing, account switching and more. The speech is based upon four foundation principles…
I just had a dialogue that was disquieting. I can’t say with whom, but the dialogue was about the impact of real-time on the world of regulation. This person said to me that their regulator ran a COBOL-based system that could not handle real-time because it was batch based. Really, I exclaimed. It’s the 21st…
I just had a dialogue that was disquieting. I can’t say with whom, but the dialogue was about the impact of real-time on the world of regulation. This person said to me that their regulator ran a COBOL-based system that could not handle real-time because it was batch based. Really, I exclaimed. It’s the 21st…
In 2008, we all thought banks were bye, bye, bye. Five years later, everyone is saying buy, buy, buy. Or Warren Buffet is anyway. In an interview with Bloomberg last week, Buffett said: “The banks will not get this country in trouble, I guarantee it. Our banking system is in the best shape in recent memory….
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