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Why insurance is so boring (and why it needn’t be)

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? …

Proof that mobile banking is killing the branch

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…

ABN1

Facebook banking and virility

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…

DenizBank

Facebook banking and virility

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…

DenizBank

Facebook banking comes of age (at last!)

As some of you will have gathered, I spent most of last week in Brussels at the EFMA Distribution Week, a grand affair with almost 100 speakers on the hot topics in retail financial services over a three day period. I was there to join a panel discussion at the starting plenary on how to…

38 years

Facebook banking comes of age (at last!)

As some of you will have gathered, I spent most of last week in Brussels at the EFMA Distribution Week, a grand affair with almost 100 speakers on the hot topics in retail financial services over a three day period. I was there to join a panel discussion at the starting plenary on how to…

38 years

Some fintech firms’ marketing stinks

There’s an old saying that cropped up the other day in respect of Margaret Thatcher’s son, Mark. It was a joking reference by Margaret that her son was so clever he could sell “snow to eskimos or sand to Arabs” or, as one wag put it, arms to anyone. Anyways, it’s a message worth remembering as…

Sun headline

Creating an agile, designer IT Shop from a CIO who knows how

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…

World of rupees

Creating an agile, designer IT Shop from a CIO who knows how

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…

World of rupees

Don’t forget socialisation and gamification: tomorrow’s banking today

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…

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