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 fortnight are … Is the Queen worth it? After two days of a jublicious love-in for our Queen, you have to ask: is she really worth it? And, according to British Airways Business Life Magazine, the answer is a resounding yes. The article discusses how much the Queen costs…
Our biggest stories of the week are … The end of 'free' banking In the 1970s, the UK's Midland Bank introduced a new competitive service – free banking. It wasn’t free of course, but it appeared that way. The idea being that if you stayed in credit, they wouldn’t’ charge you anything. It… Lázaro Campos…
Our biggest stories of the week are … Billions of reasons to use social media in business Interesting dialogue about social media in finance. Social media is so wide and vast today that it’s hard to cover in one blog post. Most people think Facebook and twitter when you say social media (eight and five…
