Our biggest stories of the past week are … Amazon vs IBM, Google vs BMW … digital disrupts everything I’ve not been surprised by disruptions in industries like music, movies, books and travel. All of these things can be digitised and have been. Music has been disrupted three times: first illegal downloads with Napster; then…
Our biggest stories of the past week are … The Changing Face of Payments Report, 2014 In late 2013, we researched the views of how payments markets are responding to change. The results are intriguing, so here's the management summary. If you would like a free copy of the report, just download here. Digital Bank (revised)…
Our biggest stories of the past week are … The Changing Face of Payments Report, 2014 In late 2013, we researched the views of how payments markets are responding to change. The results are intriguing, so here's the management summary. If you would like a free copy of the report, just download here. Digital Bank (revised)…
Our biggest stories of the past week are … Money laundering, KYC and a PEP talk I have recently spent a lot of time talking about KYC (Know Your Client), AML (Anti Money Laundering, often confused with ALM which is Asset and Liability Management), Client Onboarding, PEPs (Politically Exposed Persons) and SARs (Suspicious Activity Reports). …
This week we produced a five-part series on beinga Digital Bank: Part One: Major parts of banking are stuck in the last century During my lifetime, two things have fundamentally changed the world: travel and technology. Part Two: Heidi Miller, Bitcoin and fitness for purpose Building on yesterday’s theme about how a cheque from Canada…
This week we produced a five-part series on beinga Digital Bank: Part One: Major parts of banking are stuck in the last century During my lifetime, two things have fundamentally changed the world: travel and technology. Part Two: Heidi Miller, Bitcoin and fitness for purpose Building on yesterday’s theme about how a cheque from Canada…
Our biggest stories of the past fortnight are … What did the Medici Bankers ever do for us? I spent some of the recent holiday reading a great historical novel about the rise and fall of the Medici bankers. The bank's rise was based upon dealing with the challenge of usury. Making interest on loans was…
Our biggest stories of the past fortnight are … What did the Medici Bankers ever do for us? I spent some of the recent holiday reading a great historical novel about the rise and fall of the Medici bankers. The bank's rise was based upon dealing with the challenge of usury. Making interest on loans was…
Our biggest stories of the past week are … The Age of the Password is over I saw a great but scary presentation this week from Kamran Meer, Chief IT Security Officer at Bank Alfalah, the sixth largest bank in Pakistan. Kamran began by asking the audience if they knew about the Stuxnet attack. The Stuxnet…
