Chris Skinner's blog Shaping the future of finance
This week's main stories are … How BIG is Google's Wallet launch? So yesterday I was thinking that it’s not worth talking about Google’s announcement of a mobile wallet as it’s been covered everywhere. But to not mention it on the blog would be a serious loss of duty so, …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 16th May – 21st May 2011
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 … …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 9th May – 15th May 2011
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 …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 1st May – 8th May 2011
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 …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 18th April – 24th April 2011
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 …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 11th April – 17th April 2011
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 …
Read More »The Finanser’s week: 4th April – 10th April 2011
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 …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 28th March – 3rd April 2011
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) …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 21st March – 27th March 2011
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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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. …
Read More »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? …
Read More »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 …
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