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Our biggest stories of the past week are … Does good customer service matter?  Not really … I just had one of those really frustrating experiences with an airline. It’s a cheap airline that charges for an extra €10 for a large cabin bag (over 42 x 32 x 25cm) to be taken on board,…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Humans 1.0: banking is in our monkey genes We think our behaviours are unique. Our attitude to money is innately human and our ideas of value are something that homo sapiens have created through distorted wealth systems. Wrong. We have our sense of economics inbuilt through…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Humans 1.0: banking is in our monkey genes We think our behaviours are unique. Our attitude to money is innately human and our ideas of value are something that homo sapiens have created through distorted wealth systems. Wrong. We have our sense of economics inbuilt through…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … A SWIFT week in Dubai (#Sibos 1) Chris Skinner here. I can’t tell you much about what I’m up to, except that I’m here in the beautiful city of Dubai, jewel of the United Arab Emirates and international hub between the world and the Middle East. How…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … A SWIFT week in Dubai (#Sibos 1) Chris Skinner here. I can’t tell you much about what I’m up to, except that I’m here in the beautiful city of Dubai, jewel of the United Arab Emirates and international hub between the world and the Middle East. How…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Bank regulators have got it wrong I just found a fascinating report released by the Policy Exchange earlier this year: Capital Requirements: Gold plate or lead weight?  The report takes a big hit at the Bank of England and Treasury’s approach to the UK Banking Sector…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Bank regulators have got it wrong I just found a fascinating report released by the Policy Exchange earlier this year: Capital Requirements: Gold plate or lead weight?  The report takes a big hit at the Bank of England and Treasury’s approach to the UK Banking Sector…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Using big data to trace money laundering and fraud Talking of interesting surveys, I received another one recently about money laundering. This survey was performed by Veris, who interviewed almost 300 senior Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and compliance executives across 46 countries. Interesting findings: 61% of survey respondents…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Using big data to trace money laundering and fraud Talking of interesting surveys, I received another one recently about money laundering. This survey was performed by Veris, who interviewed almost 300 senior Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and compliance executives across 46 countries. Interesting findings: 61% of survey respondents…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … The five greatest risks to banks Banks are considered to be stable, reliant and dull by the world, or that’s what we would like them to be. Instead banks are inherently risk managers, as we have now specifically realised in the past five years. Banks can……