I began life in finance in insurance, taking the insurance exams and gaining a professional qualification. I’m still a Chartered Insurance Practitioner today, even though the sector leaves me cold. Why? Because it’s run by Actuaries who are just plain boring. There was an old joke: When do you know you’ve met an extroverted Actuary? …
A final presentation from EFMA week that I need to reference before moving on came from Eric Mackor, Head of Channel Development at the Netherlands Retail Bank ABN AMRO (as opposed to the transaction bank part of ABN AMRO that was acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland). He talked about the changing dynamics of…
Before moving off Facebook banking, there were many other mentions of Facebook Banking during the conference. For example DenizBank, the Turkish subsidiary of Moscow-based Sberbank, believe that they were the first to offer full service Facebook banking in January 2012, and here’s the video to prove it: With full online banking functionality, the platform enables…
Before moving off Facebook banking, there were many other mentions of Facebook Banking during the conference. For example DenizBank, the Turkish subsidiary of Moscow-based Sberbank, believe that they were the first to offer full service Facebook banking in January 2012, and here’s the video to prove it: With full online banking functionality, the platform enables…
Building upon the discussions about personalisation and virtualisation, these are important. In fact, as I’ve mentioned before, personalised, virtualised in real-time on my mobile is PFM-squared (does any of that last sentence make any sense?). So then I was recently asked to address a conference with a mix of banks from all sectors, and to give…
