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Branches are dead, the future is social (Part Two)

After my post last week about my latest presentation with an audio file, my keynote in Bahrain this week was going to be a variation of the presentation.  Due to being unable to fly to Bahrain, I mentioned on Monday that most of the day had been spent editing a video file for the conference…

The World of Me (Part Two)

Building on the World of Me post last week, I’ve just found out how powerful the tools are that are at our disposal today. This week, I’m meant to be chairing a conference in Bahrain: MEFTEC.  MEFTEC is now in its sixth year, and I’ve attended every year as a speaker or as chair. Guess…

MEFTEC link

Come and join the Ryanbank

Going back to the idea that a bank could offer a widget-based business model of functionality and that everything these days is free, makes me realise exactly what tomorrow’s bank will look like. The thought struck me yesterday when I took my brother-in-law’s lad to see Clash of the Titans – more my thing than…

Ryanair

Branches are dead, the future is social

I haven’t posted a presentation recently.  Been a bit lazy, so here’s a bonus. My latest presentation on the future of (retail) banking: Branches are dead, the future is social View more presentations from Chris Skinner. And an audio file to go with it: Download Chris Skinner, EBF2010 (45MB) This is a keynote presentation I…

EBF2010

Online payments is far more than PayPal

As those who follow this blog know, I write regularly about services such as Facebook and PayPal. This is because they are disruptive and fresh, as well as being incredibly successful. For example, Facebook is now the world’s #1 website, bigger than Google. Not bad for a five year old. Meantime, PayPal is still growing…

Global Social Networks

The World of Me

I was watching a program about Sandi Thom. Sandi was the girl who played music in her bedroom, put it on MySpace, got picked up by a record firm and became an overnight star with a massive hit: "I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair)" back in 2006. She was…

FSClub 2000

Metro Bank: the first new bank for a while

So, we are finally seeing a new retail bank launched in Britain for the first time in, oh, living memory? Yes, it’s Metro Bank time. Opening in about two months time, Metro Bank plans to grow from a couple of London branches to a couple of hundred by the end of the decade. In the…

MetroBank

Why ICBC didn’t buy Citibank

Good friend of the FSClub Emmanuel Daniel joined us this week to talk, about the future of banking and the rising influence of Asian banks, especially those from China and India. Emmanuel Daniel is the founder of The Asian Banker, a leading provider of strategic business intelligence on the financial services industry for the Asia…

Big Banks Income

Ending the never-ending bonus war

Solving the bonus questions I’m fed up with the argument about bonuses and cannot believe it still rumbles on after a year of debate and G20 meetings. With Barclays announcing record profits last week, and therefore increased bonuses, the media latched onto this angle more than the fact that Barclays, UBS, Goldman Sachs and others…

Social Media Survey

Brett King, author of the new book Bank 2.0 – which I can recommend to those of you working with social media in finance as a focus – has worked with me in the past few weeks, analysing the inital and general results from our social media survey. Almost 450 folks responded to the survey…

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