We had a good meeting of the Financial Services Club in Vienna on Wednesday night for our Central & Eastern European (CEE) Group. The meeting was in a cool place called the K47 Club … The focus of the meeting was microfinance, and was interesting because talking of microfinance and microcredit in CEE is very…
The Club has two big dinners coming up in the next month which may interest readers of the Finanser. The first is on 26th October with Vince Cable, Shadow Chancellor for the Liberal Democrats (register here to attend) and the second is on 10th November with Jim Champy, co-creater of the discipline Business Process Re-engineering…
We released results of our Cloud Computing survey today which finds that there is a clear need for Cloud Computing in financial institutions, especially capital markets which are highly technology driven. More than half of respondents from capital markets say IT is driving Cloud Computing compared to just a quarter of retail respondents but, overall,…
We enjoyed a meeting of the Financial Services Club this week with Bob Bayman, a director with i-am associates. i-am associates are design fiends and work extensively on bank branch designs, so Bob’s presentation looked at how to make a bank cool based upon cool branch designs. After my recent tirade against branch-based banking, you…
We enjoyed a meeting of the Financial Services Club this week with Bob Bayman, a director with i-am associates. i-am associates are design fiends and work extensively on bank branch designs, so Bob’s presentation looked at how to make a bank cool based upon cool branch designs. After my recent tirade against branch-based banking, you…
We have a meeting of the FSClub next Wednesday (7th October) where Bob Bayman will announce who he sees as being the coolest bank in the world. The focus is on retail bank branches and, as many of us know, these are usually dull and boring transaction centres. However, many banks are thinking how much…
We have a meeting of the FSClub next Wednesday (7th October) where Bob Bayman will announce who he sees as being the coolest bank in the world. The focus is on retail bank branches and, as many of us know, these are usually dull and boring transaction centres. However, many banks are thinking how much…
