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The Finanser’s Week: 25th December 2017 – 7th January 2018

The main blog headlines are … 20 of Europe’s hottest fintech start-ups to watch in 2018 I really liked this article by John Kennedy over at Silicon Republic, and decided to reproduce it here as it’s fitting for the kickoff of 2018. Who are the fintech start-ups in Europe worth banking on in the year ahead?…

The Top Ten Blog Entries Of 2017

Here are the most read blog entries on The Finanser in 2017, starting with the most popular first: 5 Banking Tech Trends for 2017 How banks are getting around open banking and PSD2 The Top 1000 banks in the world 11 FinTech trends you need to follow bitcoin or ether: which currency will win? Top…

The Finanser’s Week: 18th December – 24th December 2017

This week’s main blog headlines are … Happy holidays and one last piece of 2017 news Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everyone. That’s 2017’s blogging over for me. Back on January 2, 2018, with more news about my new book coming out in March, Digital Human. A few comments: “Skinner presents a compelling vision…

The Finanser’s Week: 11th December – 17th December 2017

This week’s main blog headlines are … Look East for innovation I often talk about faster horses and how banks think digital is doing banking cheaper and faster. It’s all about efficiency and effectiveness. So, I was asked the other day: where is the car? After all, it’s easy to call out banks for doing…

The Finanser’s Week: 4th December – 10th December 2017

This week’s main blog headlines are … How difficult is financial inclusion? There were lots and lots and lots, literally, of focus upon mobile and financial inclusion in my Sudan conference. I guess because only 4% of the adults who live there are banked. You heard me, just four percent. There are over 20 million…

The Finanser’s Week: 27th November – 3rd December 2017

This week’s main blog headlines are … Proving digital transformation works for shareholder returns I wrote about the fact that digital transformation does not create greater shareholder value … yet … and then DBS announce that they are the first bank in the world to demonstrate the link between digitization and shareholder value creation on…

The Finanser’s Week: 20th November – 26th November 2017

This week’s main blog headlines are … Banks could be dinosaurs and some of them know it I have bias. I admit it. I have a certain proclivity to be nice to people who hire me, so this is an upfront statement of subjectivity. I am not objective. Nevertheless, there are certain companies who warm…

The Finanser’s Week: 13th November – 19th November 2017

This week’s main blog headlines are … Old John Cryan had some code, AI, AI, Oh! There are two big tech topics in banking these days, namely Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain. These two tech titans are changing the back office of banks into intelligent shared structures that will be mind-blowing a decade from now….

The Finanser’s Week: 6th November – 12th November 2017

This week’s main blog headlines are … The ten-year ticking timebomb I’ve been saying for so long now that banks need to replace core legacy systems that I’m boring myself, but here I go again. The reason I’m talking about it again is that, even though some disagree and think they can fudge the issue…

The Finanser’s Week: 30th October – 5th November 2017

This week’s main blog headlines are … Regulating the unregulated I was thinking about this question of how to regulate global technology platforms that don’t recognise national boundaries, mainly in the context of crypto and digital currencies. How can you regulate a global currency that has no view of state or national laws? Obviously, you…

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