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The Finanser’s Week: 14th March – 20th March 2011

  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…

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The Finanser’s week: 7th March – 13th March 2011

  Our biggest stories of the week are … Survey: are payments infrastructures fit for purpose? We've had a lot of dialogue about interoperability and the difficulties of getting all the pipes and plumbing of payments to work together. The real question is whether payments processors are meeting the challenges of the world of 2011?…

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The Finanser’s Week: 28th February – 6th March 2011

  Our biggest stories of the week are … Survey: are payments infrastructures fit for purpose? We've had a lot of dialogue about interoperability and the difficulties of getting all the pipes and plumbing of payments to work together. The real question is whether payments processors are meeting the challenges of the world of 2011?…

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The Finanser’s Week: 21st February – 27th February 2011

  Our biggest stories of the week are … Next generation payments by Peter Ayliffe, President & CEO, Visa Europe Peter Ayliffe, President and Chief Executive of Visa Europe, presented to the Financial Services Club this week his vision of next generation payments, and how far we could become cashless. What is a ‘social bank’?…

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The Finanser’s Week: 14th February – 20th February 2011

  Our biggest stories of the week are … Feck me, these fecking bankers are taking the fecking mick Just to be clear, the word 'feck' in Ireland bears no relationship with the similar swear word used liberally by Gordon Ramsay. So why am I using this as a headline? Why mobile is critical to…

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The Finanser’s Week: 7th February – 13th February 2011

  Our biggest stories of the week are … When Irish eyes are crying In this month's Vanity Fair, Michael Lewis – he of Liar’s Poker and the Big Short fame – analyses the situation in Ireland after the crisis. The title of the lengthy article is: “When Irish eyes are crying” and the article…

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The Finanser’s Week: 31st January – 6th February 2011

  Our biggest stories of the week are … Innovations in Banking in Action  Finovate launched its first European show yesterday with over 400 attendees and 35 presentations from firms covering the whole gamete of financial services from investing to payments, personal financial management (a load of that!) to biometrics. All of them on the…

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The Finanser’s Week: 24th January – 30th January 2011

  Our biggest stories of the week are … Banking in 2020 I’ve been asked recently to think about banking in 2020. That’s ten years away and, if we cast our memories back ten years, it’s quite a leap. Ten years ago, we had lots of themes bubbling away including customer-centricity, technological… If the banks…

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The Finanser’s Week: 17th January – 23rd January 2011

Our biggest stories of the week are … Yes, Prime Minister: the Northern Rock Episode This week saw the first discussions of a possible sale of Northern Rock back into the private sector. The question is: who would buy Northern Rock? To find out, I listened in to this episode of “Yes, Prime Minister”, as…

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The Finanser’s Week: 10th January – 16th January 2011

Our biggest stories of the week are … Information as a competitive weapon A year ago, I was hugely influenced by a 16-page technology supplement in the Economist that talked about information wars.  The stand-out quote from that report was from Craig Mundie, Head of Research and Strategy at Microsoft, who stated: “Data is the…

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