Case Studies

Time to head home after a day in India at the launch of the new design centre for finance launched by Polaris Financial Technology in Chennai (Madras for the old folks out there). As you walk into the Design Centre, you are greeted by a map of the world … completely made out of Indian…

Building upon the theme that you cannot have privacy, even if you are a cybercriminal or cybersecurity expert, you cannot have privacy if you are a social media aficionado. And no greater illustration of the social media aficionado is there than Mark Zuckerburg, uberfacebook leader of the world. A man with over a billion followers, and…

One of the panellists at this week’s conference said that he employed twenty people whose sole duty was to find a way to destroy the business. I liked the idea of that.  It is a strong and emotive statement.  But what did he mean? “I employ twenty people in my innovation department who purely look…

One of the panellists at this week’s conference said that he employed twenty people whose sole duty was to find a way to destroy the business. I liked the idea of that.  It is a strong and emotive statement.  But what did he mean? “I employ twenty people in my innovation department who purely look…

David Bermingham was another recent guest at the Financial Services Club.  David was one of the NatWest Three, the three bankers who worked for NatWest in the 1990s and got caught up in the Enron scandal. What happened and how come David ended up in an American jail when he's a British citizen? Well, after presenting…

I was wondering what to blog about today, as it’s grey and cold and wet and miserable and … then I realised, I should blog about Russia. Here in London, we’ve gradually seen a takeover of some of our key financial and national assets by billionaires from the former Soviet Union states. Some of these…