The main blog headlines are … “I was the first knowledge worker whose job was threatened by a machine” Really interesting interview with Garry Kasparov in Wired magazine about the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in the future. Garry Kasparov is perhaps the greatest chess player in history. For almost …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 17th February 2020 – 23rd February 2020
The main blog headlines are … Bank Wars, Episode XX: The Rise of FinTech Over the years, a few people have likened me to the Yoda of banking. Yoda is one of the most likable characters in the Star Wars franchise, but I’m not sure if I like the comparison. …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 10th February 2020 – 16th February 2020
The main blog headlines are … Banking is what we do and technology is how we do it A decade ago, we talked about the financial crisis, technology, regulations and compliance. A decade later, we still talk about regulations and compliance, but the discussion has changed thanks to the explosion …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 3rd February 2020 – 9th February 2020
The main blog headlines are … RegTech versus TechReg I often talk about how banks have five times more regulation than technology firms. That stat comes from Bank of America Merrill Lynch who published this chart a while ago: This is confirmed by similar charts, such as this one from …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 27th January 2020 – 2nd February 2020
The main blog headlines are … A Davos Day I’ve watched Davos from afar for years now and often wondered what it would be like to be there so, when I got an invite this year, I took it straight away. The United Nations Media Group asked if I could …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 20th January 2020 – 26th January 2020
The main blog headlines are … Survey: Banks just aren’t ready for digital I’ve just been reading Jim Marous’s Digital Banking Report which ties in nicely with my new book Doing Digital, as the themes are similar. In Jim’s 70+ page report, Jim concludes that: “While there is an almost universal …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 13th January 2020 – 19th January 2020
The main blog headlines are … Bye-bye FinTech I just spent time with a bank talking about Doing Digital. The host had read a preview copy of my new book and was asking a few questions about it. What had surprised me the most in my talks with five banks? …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 23rd December 2019 – 12th January 2020
The main blog headlines are … Welcome to 2020: What’s new? Welcome to 2020. It’s a new day. It’s a new year. It’s a new decade. And yes, I’m feeling good. 2020. This is a year all of us futurists have looked forward to for over two decades as, back …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 16th December – 22nd December 2019
The main blog headlines are … Have Yourself a Merry FinTech Christmas So it’s the holiday season and time for some time off. I’m back on January 6th 2020. The only thing I can say is … here’s to a fantastic 2020 … the year of Doing Digital. “Stop …
Read More »The Eleven Things That Stood Out In 2019
At the end of every year I list the top 10 blog posts from The Finanser, to show what’s been of most interest. Bearing in mind there are over 200 posts a year, these are the ones that really stand out. Like most years, this year’s list includes three guest …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 9th December – 15th December 2019
The main blog headlines are … Traditional banks are suffocating … they just don’t know it yet An interesting lunch discussion about data the other day. It started when someone had picked up on my blog about Ana Botin, where she made the comment: “Why should data be regulated in a …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 2nd December – 8th December 2019
The main blog headlines are … Treating Customers Unfairly (#HSBC) I’ve blogged many times that so called free banking is a fallacy. It’s something I have blogged about for a decade, and the recurring theme is free banking should be banned by the regulator as it’s only free as long …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 25th November – 1st December 2019
The main blog headlines are … Are banks adapting in the right way? I picked up a few innovative changes taking place this week within banks. In fact, I should point out that banks are not static beasts, as many claim. They are changing all the time, doing things all …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 18th November – 24th November 2019
The main blog headlines are … What would you rather talk about: sex, religion, politics or money? My blog often seems to return to the subject of sex, whether it be sexism or basic sex. It is for the reason that money and rumpy-pumpy are the twin engines powering everything …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 11th November – 17th November 2019
The main blog headlines are … Can you recognise a fraudster when you meet one? I’ve pointed out many times that it’s easy to scam people online and defraud them. I even once got a phone call from an elderly gentleman asking me if he had really won £1 million …
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