Digital Bank

When I was a lad, to get a mortgage was a complex process. You would go to the bank for a meeting with the branch manager. The branch manager would assess you, your job security, work status and salary and, if all boxes were ticked, you could get a mortgage up to four times your…

I have blogged often about change and how people avoid it (who moved my cheese?), but it cropped up again the other day when I was reading Harvard’s Rosabeth Moss Kanter* thoughts on business. She has six key principles for business: Show up. Speak up. Look up. Team up. Never give up. Lift others up. Many…

My presentations these days are focused upon the challenge of change. Every day, something is in the headlines to challenge your thinking from AI to quantum to digital currencies to digital identities. The only constant is change. Whenever I talk, I come back to the wrongly attributed quotation of Charles Darwin that it does not…

I was really interested that Barclays Private Bank published an interview about AI the other day. Why? Because it’s the private bank and it’s from a bank. The interview is with Professor Michael Wooldridge, one of Oxford University’s leading AI academics with more than 450 research papers to his name. He knows his stuff. What…

I’m about to have a week in Kuala Lumpur, if anyone wants to meet-up, with a focus on Islamic Finance. I remember twenty years ago talking with Mike Hanlon who was founding the Islamic Bank of Britain (IBB), and he was telling me how UK Gov really did not understand the concept. What is the…

My friend Paolo Sironi of the IBM Institute of Business Value has been touting his latest research: the 94% core banking problem. What’s it all that about? Well, it’s about how digital transformation or, as IBM calls it modernization, hasn’t delivered. In research conducted with a global survey of over 500 CIO’s and almost 200…

It was interesting that the Labour Party Annual Conference in Liverpool last week did not talk about digital identity schemes. This is the party in government who, days before the conference started, announced that all people who wanted to work in Britain would need a digital ID in their government app. Like the National Insurance…

Watching Sibos from afar – I haven’t been invited for a while due to being too provocative – I was not surprised to see that Quantum computing, AI, CBDCs, stablecoins, tokenization and blockchain are all making the headlines, as these are all the themes I spend my time presenting about around the world. Cybersecurity, AI…

I’ve just created a platform to tokenize idols. Any idol and even bits and pieces related to them. You can tokenize Taylor Swift’s underwear; tokenize Rory McIlroy’s golfing glove; tokenize Ryan Reynolds Wrexham shirt; or even tokenize Harry Kane’s big toe. After all, any part of an idol is worth something to a fan, so…

I just joined Huawei for their summit themed “Beyond Digital, Resilience Empowers AI-infused Finance”. It was interesting and Jason Cao, CEO of Huawei Digital Finance, gave a speech that was insightful around creating convenience with security through AI. One line that stood out for me is: “We must neither underestimate the long-term value of AI…