Blog Index

  Our biggest stories of the week are … Are payments infrastructures fit for purpose? On Wednesday 22nd June, we are running a private dinner meeting of the Financial Services Club in London to launch the results of our recent survey: "Are payments infrastructures fit for purpose?" which was completed by 350 payments professionals worldwide….

  Our biggest stories of the week are … That Gold dispensing ATM in action … This week, it’s the lovely Abu Dhabi for a few days at a conference that’s now in its seventh year: MEFTEC.  Managed to take a day off on the first day and toured Abu Dhabi with one of the sights…

Our biggest stories of the week are … The Future of Retail Payments So last week I felt honoured to be invited by the European Central Bank (ECB) to present at their conference on the future of retail payments. Here is the full text of the speech I gave … Why Facebook will not become…

  Our biggest stories of the week are … So how would you build a bank? If we were creating a bank today, how would we create it? This is a question that comes up regularly and I haven’t tried to answer it for a while, but thought I’d give it a go this week,…

Our biggest stories of the week are … You can never believe what you think For years, marketing and market research firms have talked about demographics, using job, age and location as a way of targeting customers. The trouble is that it leads us down the road of ignorance, because we often use such classifications…

  Our biggest stories of the week are … Secret service and trading: both find needles in haystacks I was at TradeTech the other day, one of the largest conferences and exhibitions focused upon buy and sell side technologies. It had a good attendance and agenda, although I did wonder why it was sponsored by…

Our biggest stories of the week are … The regulator's dilemma: being DUPEd It’s pretty clear that regulatory systems haven't worked and realised what the mistake was the other day. It’s a four-phase issue, summarised as regulatory DUPE: Disaster, Understanding, Proposition; and Execution. Standard & Poor's Global Corporate Default Study Standard & Poor's sent a…

Our biggest stories of the week are … Stéphane Garelli on the future economic outlook Stéphane Garelli is the guy who made Davos what it is today, as Managing Director of the World Economic Forum for over twenty years.  Now a Professor with the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, he's pretty well informed on all matters…

  Our biggest stories of the week are … Survey: are payments infrastructures fit for purpose? Our survey on payments infrastructures closes on April 5th.  If you haven't taken it yet, now's your last chance: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/P5KN6V3 Banks form alliance to stop G20 I had an interesting (but competely April Fooled fictional) conversation with the Chief Executive…