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2012: a banking outlook

Yesterday, we talked about the economic outlook for 2012.  What about the banking outlook? Well it’s also challenging, with five clear things happening: Regulatory change will still be high on the agenda Investment banking will get a radical overhaul Clearing and settlement will become a much bigger focus Reconstructing distribution will be a big challenge…

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2012: a banking outlook

Yesterday, we talked about the economic outlook for 2012.  What about the banking outlook? Well it’s also challenging, with five clear things happening: Regulatory change will still be high on the agenda Investment banking will get a radical overhaul Clearing and settlement will become a much bigger focus Reconstructing distribution will be a big challenge…

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2012: an economic outlook

2012 is here and we all hope it’s better than 2011.  Sure, some of you may have had a very good last year, but most thought it pretty dire with job losses, austerity measures, civil uprisings, protests, a second financial crisis in the Eurozone and more being the name of the day. Time Magazine named…

The Protester

2012: an economic outlook

2012 is here and we all hope it’s better than 2011.  Sure, some of you may have had a very good last year, but most thought it pretty dire with job losses, austerity measures, civil uprisings, protests, a second financial crisis in the Eurozone and more being the name of the day. Time Magazine named…

The Protester

The future competitive battleground

I blog a lot about the disruptions of new technologies on bank structures, but only in the last few weeks had the chance to reflect upon what this means overall to a bank’s strategy. A bank is a digital business, as mentioned so often before. As a digital business, all banking can be broken down…

Long versus Short is like Good versus Evil

I was honoured to be the guest speaker for the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists at their Quarterly Lunch yesterday.  The lunch was held at the Tallow Chandlers' Halls in the City … … although the technologists are not candlestick makers, they know where to have a party. Anyways, in the spirits of keeping my…

Tallow Hall

Get Shorty! Andrew Haldane speech

Last night was the occasion of the Sir John Gresham annual lecture. This year it was held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Canary Wharf with the keynote speaker being Andrew Haldane, or Andy as is the preference,  Executive Director for Financial Stability with the Bank of England. Andy is speaking at the Financial Services…

Andy Haldane

Mobile banking and PFM is so last decade

Another conference focused upon financial innovation today, and all the talk is about mobile stuff, Google Wallets, mobile stuff, Banksimple, mobile stuff and Movenbank. I’m regularly stressing today that we must:: stop talking about mobile; and talk about the point-of-life. First, stop talking about mobile stuff. The fixation with mobile is because it’s finally come…

Is Bitcoin the future of money … or are we smoking dope?

Talking with some of the Financial Services Club sponsors last week, it is clear that there is still a debate raging about the future of cash.  Like the future of branches, which both Brett King and I discuss endlessly, cash is one of the other traditional bastions of the old guard of financial servicing. Yet…

Bitcoin

Is Bitcoin the future of money … or are we smoking dope?

Talking with some of the Financial Services Club sponsors last week, it is clear that there is still a debate raging about the future of cash.  Like the future of branches, which both Brett King and I discuss endlessly, cash is one of the other traditional bastions of the old guard of financial servicing. Yet…

Bitcoin

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