A year ago I blogged about invisible banking and that I have some issues with it, namely that the bank brand disappears and the customer finds it too easy to spend without thinking. Now, I read more and more about embedded banking, contextual banking, frictionless banking and more, and I …

Things we’re reading today include …   Forty-year mortgages: life sentence or life raft? Lloyds faces £300m bill for SLA divorce Citi starts up post-Brexit Frankfurt trading hub U.S. bank regulator fines Citigroup $25 million for violating fair lending rules UK to lose £1tn of financial assets to Europe due …

I can understand why bankers can be sceptical about what technologists say. For years, technologists have been telling them that their business is threatened by technological change. They’ve been shouting that they will be disintermediated; they say that the bank must change and change fast to keep up; they argue …

Things we’re reading today include … Are 40-year mortgages becoming the new normal? U.S. firm FIS buys Worldpay for $35 billion in payments deal bonanza FIS/Worldpay: thrust and parricide Goldman Sachs sets targets for Hispanic and black entry-level hires Why has the US Fed turned away from interest rate rises? …

I’ve written quite often about Sexism in the City and am intrigued by discussions of diversity, or the lack thereof, in both banking and technology. Google and more have been told they’re not hiring enough women, and Amazon’s AI engine recently trained itself to ignore women’s applications based on historical hiring. …

Things we’re reading today include … Regulators press for overhaul of Metro Bank board UK bankers on standby as City readies no-deal contingency plans More than £100bn of UK property is secretly owned Brexit spurs biggest cut in UK business investment in 10 years: BCC Banks discriminating against the vulnerable, …

The main blog headlines are … Transforming the bank: three phases of change I’ve mentioned quite often that you cannot sort out all of the banks systems and structures overnight. It has to be a slow burn and often takes more than five years. It also appears to take place …

I’ve mentioned quite often that you cannot sort out all of the banks systems and structures overnight. It has to be a slow burn and often takes more than five years. It also appears to take place in three phases. The first phase is to sort out the basics. If …

Things we’re reading today include … Top 10 Fintech Companies to Watch in 2019 Berlin’s Bad Bank Idea Cryptocurrencies Pose Risks to Banks, Warns Basel Committee Nine banks win dismissal of Canadian rate-rigging lawsuit in U.S. U.S. considers sanctions to restrict Visa, Mastercard in Venezuela: official BBVA honorary chairman ‘temporarily’ …

There are five camps out there. The first is the FinTech camp. This camp sit around the campfire and go “down with banks, down with banks”. They believe banks are out-dated legacy firms who have no idea about the modern age of technology. They believe banks are money-grabbing Shylocks, purely …

Being British with a British accent, everyone asks me about what life will be like with Brexit … and my answer is that I have no idea. I can see that the country is divided, and we have real issues, but then don’t most countries? I can also see that …

Things we’re reading today include … For all their high hopes, the challenger banks have finished up on the ropes Why are Banks reluctant to Bank Crypto? Bank of England ‘must practice what it preaches’ Monzo pips First Direct to top our customer service poll Wonga compensation claims rise fourfold …

Things we’re reading today include … Wells Fargo’s CEO says the bank has changed. Congress isn’t so sure Deutsche Bank’s Arranged Marriage Gets Shove From ECB Sweden Wants a Bank Tax That ‘Really Hits’ the Right Targets NatWest trials fingerprint debit cards to remove £30 limit Brexit fallout on UK …

I got a large number of pings over the weekend to read and comment on an article on Medium by Lance Ng headlined: Facebook Plans to Become World’s Biggest Central Bank? It is a conjectured article that takes the story from The New York Times discussing Facebook creating its own …

This is an old but true story of my very own. Back in the day, I worked for a computer firm that had a unique piece of hardware and software called the Contents Addressable File Store, or CAFS for short. I was the marketing manager for this remarkable piece of …