Digital Bank

Following on from yesterday’s blog about traditional bank thinking versus digital bank views, there are three slides I use in my presentations that illustrate this big change.  This is the change in banks moving from being trade focused to community focused. The first points out that banks must be in the social network, as that’s…

Following on from yesterday’s blog about traditional bank thinking versus digital bank views, there are three slides I use in my presentations that illustrate this big change.  This is the change in banks moving from being trade focused to community focused. The first points out that banks must be in the social network, as that’s…

One of the things that is quite clear is that, as we move into a sharing economy, the role of banks is changing.  Banks historically focused upon profit and trade, but they now need to also focus upon community and dialogue.  It is no longer good enough to purely focus upon commerce at the expense…

One of the things that is quite clear is that, as we move into a sharing economy, the role of banks is changing.  Banks historically focused upon profit and trade, but they now need to also focus upon community and dialogue.  It is no longer good enough to purely focus upon commerce at the expense…

I’ve been talking about the hot new start-ups targeting the banking markets for a while.  There are literally 1000’s of them – the Fintech Awards had over 750 firms to review this year alone – and sifting the wheat from the chaff is hard.  There are a few standouts however, and these are the ones…

So I was going to write a long blog about SWIFT today, but it makes more sense to post that one tomorrow after seeing this report by Richard Meadows, a journalist for Fairfax Media who publish New Zealand's popular papers The Dominion Post and The Press, as well as the popular news website Stuff. The write-up covers my keynote at PaymentsNZ,…