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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…

Davos: the Future of the Global Financial System

Just found a report from this year’s Davos that explores the forces that are shaping the future of the financial services landscape in the near term, and provides tools to approach the most pressing challenges of the post-crisis world, namely: managing and resolving governments’ newly acquired equity interests in financial institutions and restoring trust in…

Eye, eye – the future of customer identity?

After the news of a banker’s offspring trying to blow up a flight on Christmas Eve by hiding explosive materials in his underpants, we wonder how such individuals get away with such acts. Can’t we monitor them better? Is there no way to identify the honest person from the dishonest from the outright terrorist? This…

2013 Vision of Banking

Commonwealth Bank of Australia put this video onto YouTube the other day: It's a vision of 2013.  Come back here in three years and see if it's come true! I'm fairly sure that, if it is, then this is how you'll be getting to work (thanks to Barclaycard): Cool!  

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