Blog Index

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Do you believe in NFC? I ‘ve been talking about contactless for years now – I remember talking about the Octopus card system about ten years ago after it launched in Hong Kong in 1997 – and still find it surprising how invisible it is…. What…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Is banking technology 'biological suicide'? It’s been noteworthy that many banks and exchanges have been facing computer failures recently. There appears to be more and more of them. The best known one over here was the RBS glitch, but there have been many more over… Who…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Is SWIFT fit for purpose? This is the final chance to take part in the Financial Services Club annual survey on payments infrastructures: are they fit for purpose?  We would be delighted if you would join this year’s survey: click here to take part. Quantitatively Ease the…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Is SWIFT fit for purpose? This is the final week in which you can take part in the Financial Services Club annual survey on payments infrastructures: are they fit for purpose?  We would be delighted if you would join this year’s survey: click here to take part….

Our biggest stories of the past week are … SWIFT, Visa, Mastercard and T2S? The Financial Services Club is repeating the survey started in 2011 reviewing the changing face of payments infrastructures.  We would be delighted if you would join this year’s survey: click here to take part. UK House of Lords to investigate reform of…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … What's banking got to do with the Price of Fish? Professor Michael Mainelli and Ian Harris (see bio's at end of blog entry) are regular guests of the Financial Services Club, and were invited back to close the London season of meetings with an engaging discussion…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … SWIFT, Visa, Mastercard and T2S? As we enter the summer break, the Financial Services Club has two free offers for SWIFT Community members. First, join our research into payments infrastructures and get a free copy of the results: click here to take part.  Second, come to our…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Barclays advert Everyone in my twittersphere has been retweeting this picture. Diamonds are forever  I wrote a brief summary last Friday about a wholesale need to change the industry and thought that was it … it’s not. I need to write more about this heap of…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … RBS-NatWest proves that technology IS the bank  The big news at the end of last week is that the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) had a computer crash, affecting all of the UK bank including NatWest and Ulster Bank. It caught headlines worldwide: NatWest and RBS…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Is it just me, or is everything just … I’m having one of those days. It started off OK, and then it just went downhill. So I was going to blog about various market opportunities and ideas in banking and then thought: sod it, time for…