The main blog headlines are … Blockchain is dead I used to blog about blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) almost once a week … four years ago. Today, I hardly blog about it at all. I guess it just shows what’s top of mind and what’s not at any …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 18th March – 24th March 2019
The main blog headlines are … Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank: the sick dogs of Europe #Brexit Watching the debacle of the #Brexit debate in Britain, you might think that the UK is in a national meltdown. According to a survey on the front of Metro this week, 9 out of …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 11th March – 17th March 2019
The main blog headlines are … Transforming the bank: three phases of change I’ve mentioned quite often that you cannot sort out all of the banks systems and structures overnight. It has to be a slow burn and often takes more than five years. It also appears to take place …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 4th March – 10th March 2019
The main blog headlines are … It’s only words … why values and missions are questionable I go around a lot of banks and am always struck by their similarities and differences. To be honest, there are more similarities than differences. Most have big corporate offices, with great views over …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 25th February – 3rd March 2019
The main blog headlines are … How to be a Unicorn (Part One) Marko Wenthin, co-founder of solarisBank, recently contributed to my blog and, as a mate, has sent some great insights about starting up a FinTech firm which I thought I would share of FinTech banks last week. How to be …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 18th February – 24th February 2019
The main blog headlines are … Technology is business Another interesting nuance of the FinTech Bank is the integration of business and technology. I’ve referenced this a few times, but wanted to be explicit that these banks think technology is business and business is technology. This is clearly demonstrated in …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 11th February – 17th February 2019
The main blog headlines are … 39 FinTech Unicorns Valued at $147.37 billion I spotted an article by Linus Beliunas on LinkedIn this week, and liked it so much that wanted to share. Enjoy! 39 FinTech Unicorns Valued at $147.37 billion 2018 was a phenomenal year for FinTech. Over a …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 4th February – 10th February 2019
The main blog headlines are … Is the branch dead? A regular discussion of mine has resurfaced in recent days: is the branch dead? Why it has returned is due to the announcement of Santander closing a fifth of its UK branch network: The Spanish-owned bank, which has one of the largest …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 28th January – 3rd February 2019
The main blog headlines are … Banks need to be technology giants I got into one very interesting discussion with a digital banker. He was underscoring how important data is in banking, and referenced the fact that banking started with data. It started as a ledger system a thousand years …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 20th January – 27th January 2019
The main blog headlines are … Digital banks have fast and regular communication A further aspect of the digital banks I am talking with is that they have reviews all the time. Not formal reviews, but fast meetings with the business people, designers, developers and even audit and compliance all …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 13th January – 20th January 2019
The main blog headlines are … The new FinTech bank For years, I’ve been wondering why people in business operations couldn’t align their needs with the people delivering technology in the organisation. The CIO would sit outside the business, watching and responding to requests. The requests would get prioritisation and …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 7th January – 12th January 2019
The main blog headlines are … My view of 2019 So, I’ve been summarising other people’s views of the year ahead from a variety of sources, but I also wrote two outline pieces for my friends at The Banker magazine and Jim Marous’s The Financial Brand. Just to finish off my week’s …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 17th December – 23rd December 2018
The main blog headlines are … The top blog posts of 2018 Just looking through the stats for the last year and it gives you an insight into what’s hot and what’s not. So here are the ten most popular blog posts of 2018: In at Number 10 is: Who …
Read More »The top blog posts of 2018
Just looking through the stats for the last year and it gives you an insight into what’s hot and what’s not. So here are the ten most popular blog posts of 2018: In at Number 10 is: Who are the hottest FinTech firms and Influencers around the world? This blog …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 10th December – 16th December
The main blog headlines are … Open Banking: Strategy and Presentation I haven’t given away my slides and presentation for a while, as it’s part of my unique armoury, but I’m bored with my latest slide deck so here it is. Open Banking Strategy and Business Model from Chris Skinner …
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