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Using mobiles as a financial channel

On May 28th, the Financial Services Club is holding the second joint meeting with Intellect on Technology Trends – the first was in March and focused upon low latency – sponsored by Speechly Bircham. This meeting will focus upon mobile as a financial channel. The idea of mobile financial services has been a hot topic…

Girls, games and gambling

David Birch and I cross paths regularly and he kindly spoke to the Financial Services Club recently about the future of money. For those who don’t know him, David is a Grade-A Geek. Not my description of him, but the description of the Independent newspaper from an article in 2004 and, judging by this photo…

David Birch, fashion week

Girls, games and gambling

David Birch and I cross paths regularly and he kindly spoke to the Financial Services Club recently about the future of money. For those who don’t know him, David is a Grade-A Geek. Not my description of him, but the description of the Independent newspaper from an article in 2004 and, judging by this photo…

David Birch, fashion week

Jeremy Wilson, Barclays and Professor Willem Buiter

We have two major meetings of the Financial Services Club in London in May: on 18th May Jeremy Wilson, Vice Chairman of Barclays Commercial Bank, will be discussing how the credit crisis has changed the customer relationship; and on 21st May Willem Buiter, Professor of European Political Economy for the European Institute of the London…

Jeremy Wilson, Barclays and Professor Willem Buiter

We have two major meetings of the Financial Services Club in London in May: on 18th May Jeremy Wilson, Vice Chairman of Barclays Commercial Bank, will be discussing how the credit crisis has changed the customer relationship; and on 21st May Willem Buiter, Professor of European Political Economy for the European Institute of the London…

Having a drink with Gerard Hartsink

Next Monday, 27th April, the Financial Services Club will be hosting an evening with Gerard Hartsink, Chairman of the European Payments Council and Senior Vice President with ABN AMRO / Royal Bank of Scotland. I recently posted Gerard's comments on the European Payments landscape when we met in Hong Kong in March, and he will…

Can regulators really regulate?

I blogged a while ago about David Doyle, expert on all things in finance with a Brussels flavour. David and I regularly tag-team on MiFID and the PSD, and in the wider context of Europe's Financial Services Action Plan. In particular, he has an inside track on all this stuff and presented the latest updates…

Robobank: no human hands needed

The final day in Hong Kong focused upon innovations and several speakers provided a rich overview of innovation across the region, mainly n Japan and China. I’ll blog about some of these for the rest of the week, as I was particularly impressed with a few areas of leading-edge technology being deployed in a consumer…

EBank1

Robobank: no human hands needed

The final day in Hong Kong focused upon innovations and several speakers provided a rich overview of innovation across the region, mainly n Japan and China. I’ll blog about some of these for the rest of the week, as I was particularly impressed with a few areas of leading-edge technology being deployed in a consumer…

EBank1

Robobank: no human hands needed

The final day in Hong Kong focused upon innovations and several speakers provided a rich overview of innovation across the region, mainly n Japan and China. I’ll blog about some of these for the rest of the week, as I was particularly impressed with a few areas of leading-edge technology being deployed in a consumer…

EBank1

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