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How banks can beat the telco’s at the mobile game

In the 1990s, I spent a long time studying bank trends and the future strategies banks and other would take.  The conclusion I came to is that there would be a general cross-industry bank trend, where non-banks would enter banking and, in order to get banking skills, would acquire banks.  The end-game would be that…

Why innovation is so difficult in banks

I said yesterday that the other topic that keeps coming up is innovation. Innovation is something that comes and goes in banking like Chief Executives and Heads of Risk … as in it appears and disappears pretty often. During the build up to the financial crisis, innovation was everywhere. Then it disappeared for a while….

Why innovation is so difficult in banks

I said yesterday that the other topic that keeps coming up is innovation. Innovation is something that comes and goes in banking like Chief Executives and Heads of Risk … as in it appears and disappears pretty often. During the build up to the financial crisis, innovation was everywhere. Then it disappeared for a while….

New Media versus The Law

I’ve written about the end of privacy before, but now the big news in the UK is that privacy is a joke. There is no such thing. For example, we had a court of law here that could implement superinjunctions to stop the media leaking information about people’s private lives. Major stars of media, sport…

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Why banks should worry about Google, Apple, Facebook …

I've talked for a while about: money being meaningless, as data is now key; the battle over information, and how information warfare is the new game; the fact that banks should move from being safekeepers of money to being safekeepers of data; and so on and so forth. So when I read Venessa Miemis's article…

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Stéphane Garelli on the future economic outlook

I recently attended a conference where I interviewed lots of the keynote speakers for a vidvertisement … or whatever you call it. Anyways, the interviews are timely, relevant and pertinent to the readers of the blog, so I’m reposting a select few here. The first is Stéphane Garelli.  If you don’t know him, Stéphane Garelli…

Banks will absolutely be disintermediated

OK, so I said that banks would absolutely not be disintermediated last week, and it sparked some interesting debate and dialogue. A few folks were incredulous that I could say this; others thought it made eminent sense; some noted that the movement of money could be disintermediated, but the holding of money could not; whilst…

MiFID Impact

The Mobile Revolution

Mobile featured heavily throughout the International Payments Summit and it is clear that mobile is not only important; it is imperative. This was made loud and clear by a comment from Daniel Marovitz of Deutsche Bank that it used to be that online and offline worlds were separate because, to make an online payment, you…

Mobile_infographic

Banks should advise customers on the do’s and don’ts of social networking

Banks miss a trick in not advising customers how to network socially with safety, so here’s my top do’s and don’ts for social networking. It’s not exhaustive, but just those that are top of mind and banks would do well to send such advice to their customers in writing, online and always when they logon…

Future visions in video

As anyone who tracks this blog knows, I love all things futuristic.  Via Rob Findlay I discovered this video yesterday from Corning Glass … … apart from being the perfect family in the perfect house with the perfect lifestyle, I thought it was pretty good. As is this one, demonstrating the future of mobile (back…

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