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Our biggest stories during the holidays are … Welcome to 2015! Welcome to 2015!  Hello to a whole New Year and we trust you had a fantastic holiday break.  Back with a bang, we will have lots of news, predictions, forecasts and ideas to share over the next few weeks but, to start the New…

Our biggest stories during the holidays are … Happy Holidays! Well, it's the holiday season and hoop-di-hoop and dickery dock … no forget all that.  Enjoy your time with families and friends and, from a blustery London City, I wish you all well for the season and a peaceful 2015. Reflections on 2014 (did the…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Banks with pre-internet age core systems have a heart that is no longer beating I realised something about this new market of fintech the other day, where banks become financial systems integrators.  That realisation was that banks really should think about what they are doing, developing…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … "An $81 million payments transaction cost just 4 cents to process", thanks Bitcoin I just spent a couple of days talking about cryptocurrencies and the bitcoin thing again.  It still amazes me how many misperceptions and distorted views there are out there about this area.  One…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … "An $81 million payments transaction cost just 4 cents to process", thanks Bitcoin I just spent a couple of days talking about cryptocurrencies and the bitcoin thing again.  It still amazes me how many misperceptions and distorted views there are out there about this area.  One…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … What is a digital bank? This question arises fairly often and I guess it’s because some people think of it as the addition of mobile apps and tablets; others believe it is creating a paperless bank; whilst others talk about a digitalisation of processes and products. …

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Card companies are more social than banks I often talk about how our work-life balance has disappeared and that we now have just a tech-life balance.  Social and professional have merged.  What was personal is now shared, and things that would usually be private are now…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Card companies are more social than banks I often talk about how our work-life balance has disappeared and that we now have just a tech-life balance.  Social and professional have merged.  What was personal is now shared, and things that would usually be private are now…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … What is the 'digital core' for a bank? I’ve been talking about banks replacing their legacy mess with a digital core for a while now. Rearchitect your bank by getting rid of spaghetti based systems organised around products and channels to market, and redesign them for…

Our biggest stories of the past week are … What is the 'digital core' for a bank? I’ve been talking about banks replacing their legacy mess with a digital core for a while now. Rearchitect your bank by getting rid of spaghetti based systems organised around products and channels to market, and redesign them for…