Future

May 12, 2015

Technologies have hardly touched our world yet …

We think we’ve come a long way with technology, but we haven’t really. Sure we can now ping a message between a router in Hong Kong and London at the rate of 0.239 seconds speed; we can wear a watch that not only tells the time but takes photos, keeps our diary and tells us…

Feb 17, 2015

The most likely future for cryptocurrencies

So yesterday, I said that bitcoin will not escape the regularity focus. This is a philosophical debate, rather than a technical one, and may be decided by the precedents that have gone before as the internet of money is actually Net 6.0. What I mean by this is that the internet has undergone at least…

Jan 22, 2015

Banks face more change in next 10 years than in the last 200

Sticking with the future predictions, I usually quote the great American baseball player Yogi Berra: “it’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future”. He had quite a few comments of that ilk: “the future isn’t what it used to be”, and it is certainly true. It is particularly true when we look at the…

Jan 21, 2015

Watch the future unfold (the best future vids on YouTube)

I often scan the net for videos portraying visions of the future. To be honest, most of them look the same now. For example, in my last set, I posted visions from Corning, Micrsoft and more. Having done this three times – one, two, three – I guess I can start a series, so this…

Jan 16, 2015

The future supply chain

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about corporate treasury lately and the supply chain, and wondered what would happen if and when 3D printing really took off. By way of example, you can now 3D print your own car or house if you want, and that means that the whole supply chain collapses, as does…

Jan 6, 2015

Predictions for 2015

I always like to start the New Year by making a bunch of predictions, but have been beaten to it this year by the Financial Times. Therefore, I will make some specific banking and technology predictions this week but, as I like to look at the economic and social changes in the year, the easier way to…

Jan 6, 2015

Predictions for 2015

Jan 2, 2015

The future for the Ukraine?

No one knows how this will work out. The sanctions are hurting Russia but Putin won't back down easily, as it would be a serious loss of face. In recent talks with Angela Merkel, it is clear that he will not back down in fact. Meanwhile, the Americans are conflicted about the Ukraine and pretty…

Dec 16, 2014

The Banking Paradox: even bankers want to move to fintech

This post is stolen from Philippe Gelis's (CEO of Kantox) blog on LinkedIn, as it adds more insight to my similar post last week: Last week I was in Madrid where Actualidad Economica and CaixaBank awarded Kantox with a best start-up prize. It is paradoxical when I think back to 4 years ago. When I was looking for…

Nov 18, 2014

Wrappers, replacers and reformers are all targeting banks

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…