Blog Index

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…

  Our biggest stories of the week are … Survey: are payments infrastructures fit for purpose? This is the last week of our survey on payments infrastructures. Over 300 people have completed the survey and the results will be released in April. Have you taken the survey yet? If not join in: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/P5KN6V3 The Mobile…

  Our biggest stories of the week are … Future visions in video As anyone who tracks this blog knows, I love all things futuristic. Via Rob Findlay I discovered this video yesterday from Corning Glass … Monthly MiFID Monitor, February 2011 We are pleased to provide our eleventh month of monitoring the MTF performances…