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The Finanser’s Week: 22nd October – 28th October 2018

The main blog headlines are … Technosocialism? As if … Someone told me I should start a travel blog, as I fly more than most pigeons do. True. But I’m not sure my travel blog would be read so much. However, it does make me reflect on travel and money. Some countries are still reliant…

The Finanser’s Week: 8th October – 21st October 2018

The main blog headlines are … Customer intelligent marketing is not a scary thing I grew up as a marketing guy. My first career roles were in marketing. I was trained by Kotler and Drucker, and still hold true to first principles of marketing: the 4 P’s or, if you’re not a marketing person, product,…

The Finanser’s Week: 1st October – 7th October 2018

The main blog headlines are … If you think it’s evolution and not revolution, think again Another regular argument I’m having is whether digital is a revolution or evolution. I firmly believe it is revolutionary. When industries are being rebuilt from the ground-up with new technologies and new business models, then it is a revolution….

The Finanser’s Week: 24th September – 30th September 2018

The main blog headlines are … Breaking through the barricades I blog a lot about banks needing to change and adapt. I do not blog about the end of banks and I do not predict that banks will be destroyed. I do predict that banks that do not change and adapt will be destroyed, and…

The Finanser’s Week: 17th September – 23rd September 2018

The main blog headlines are … Over the next decade, over $2.5 trillion will be generated by blockchain trade I just saw a report from the World Economic Forum, who estimate that over $1 trillion in new trade will be created through blockchain-based distributed ledger technologies (DLT) over the next decade. They also estimate it…

The Finanser’s Week: 10th September – 16th September 2018

The main blog headlines are … Ten years since Lehmans collapsed and the GFC started It’s September 14. It’s exactly ten years since Lehman Brothers collapsed. It’s ten years since the touchpaper was lit that sparked the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). It’s exactly ten years since I landed in Vienna for Sibos 2008 on Sunday, September…

The Finanser’s Week: 3rd September – 9th September 2018

The main blog headlines are … How the world has changed with technology I was introduced to a lunch meeting by the Chairman of the Bank. As he made the introduction, he gave a personal account of how technology had changed the world during his lifetime. This is not his speech, but my version of…

The Finanser’s Week: 27th August 2018 – 2nd September 2018

The main blog headlines this week are … Every $1 in $50 in the banks is laundered money (and maybe more) I’ve made the comment many times that it is astounding that around $2 trillion is laundered through the banks of the world each year, up from $1.6 trillion in 2009. It’s about 2.7% of global…

The Finanser’s Week: 20th August 2018 – 26th August 2018

The main blog headlines are … The secret to success with customer data It shows the nature of money and finance in our lives, in the way that the media reports about it. Quite often you get a scary headline like the big banks are watching you or banks will sell your data and it…

The Finanser’s Week: 13th August 2018 – 19th August 2018

The main blog headlines this week are … Do we need a blockchain? I haven’t written about blockchain for a while. I guess it’s because I got bored of it. I’m not bored of the promise of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. Just bored of how much hype there has been and of so many…

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