Technology

I haven’t written much about social media lately.  The reason is that it’s now mainstream and dull.  When you're scanning future views, you’re not as bothered about Facebook and Twitter when everyone’s familiar with and using such services. Facebook's pervasiveness is well illustrated by the Facebook IPO  announcement, which gave a raft of good stats about how…

I haven’t written much about social media lately.  The reason is that it’s now mainstream and dull.  When you're scanning future views, you’re not as bothered about Facebook and Twitter when everyone’s familiar with and using such services. Facebook's pervasiveness is well illustrated by the Facebook IPO  announcement, which gave a raft of good stats about how…

I’ve written a few bits about Bitcoin but it still confuses folks, as was clear from the debate we had about it at the Financial Services Club the other night. Donald Norman, co-founder of the Bitcoin Consultancy, presented the latest state of play in the currency … … and it led to one of the liveliest…

PwC conducted research with almost 3,000 banking customers from a range of segments across markets to discover their expectations of banking in the digital age. They selected both emerging and developing markets including China, India, Mexico and the UAE, as well as developed markets like the UK, Canada, France and Poland. The research revealed that…

PwC conducted research with almost 3,000 banking customers from a range of segments across markets to discover their expectations of banking in the digital age. They selected both emerging and developing markets including China, India, Mexico and the UAE, as well as developed markets like the UK, Canada, France and Poland. The research revealed that…

For most of my life, I’ve been aligned to the financial services industry as a supplier of technology. Throughout this time, my role has been as a solutions person, providing technologies that solve financial processing problems. And, throughout this time, I’ve dealt with technology companies that struggle with moving from being horizontal to vertical, from…

For most of my life, I’ve been aligned to the financial services industry as a supplier of technology. Throughout this time, my role has been as a solutions person, providing technologies that solve financial processing problems. And, throughout this time, I’ve dealt with technology companies that struggle with moving from being horizontal to vertical, from…

Last year, I stumbled across predictions from a century ago, and responded by making some predictions for a century ahead.  Strangely enough, there was also a moment to look back over the last fifty years of technology developments around that time too. So it must be whilst sitting around on holidays that these things come out as,…