Future

NO I was going to leave it at that but ok, I guess I better explain. The G20 is here. No more G7 or G8. Twenty of them now. Count them. The big EU players, America, the BRIC economies, Japan. You’ve got Argentina, Oz, Canada in there. Indonesia gets a …

I was asked to write about innovation in payments last week, and so here’s the first of three parts. The first part will focus upon retail payments innovation; the second, corporate payments; and the third, trade settlement. A weekly non-exhaustive update so to speak. First, what is innovation? Let’s define …

After the innotribe stuff, it was off to a panel debate about “payments innovation”. This session was described as follows: “The crisis has put the emphasis back on traditional banking and sources of revenue, with payments coming to the fore again. Yet payments are also seen as a commoditised, legacy …

After the innotribe stuff, it was off to a panel debate about “payments innovation”. This session was described as follows: “The crisis has put the emphasis back on traditional banking and sources of revenue, with payments coming to the fore again. Yet payments are also seen as a commoditised, legacy …

So, the innotribe session has just come to a close.  I'll post more about the ideas proposed for SWIFT to invest in later, but here's our team's idea. First, what is innotribe? It's a stream at SIBOS focused upon finding innovations in finance for the future comprising SWIFT and banks, …

So, the innotribe session has just come to a close.  I'll post more about the ideas proposed for SWIFT to invest in later, but here's our team's idea. First, what is innotribe? It's a stream at SIBOS focused upon finding innovations in finance for the future comprising SWIFT and banks, …

After that panel session it’s literally been rush, rush, rush. Rushed off to join a panel that I was presenting, chaired by Matteo Rizzi of SWIFT. The panel consisted of a role play discussing the six themes I’ve blogged about in the build up to SIBOS with Mary Knox of …

After that panel session it’s literally been rush, rush, rush. Rushed off to join a panel that I was presenting, chaired by Matteo Rizzi of SWIFT. The panel consisted of a role play discussing the six themes I’ve blogged about in the build up to SIBOS with Mary Knox of …

This is the last of a series of blogs about social finance that has covered new entrants to banking, their barriers to entry, how they might disrupt banks, social technologies and more. If you missed the earlier entries, here they are: Why banks struggle to innovate The relevance of social …

This is the last of a series of blogs about social finance that has covered new entrants to banking, their barriers to entry, how they might disrupt banks, social technologies and more. If you missed the earlier entries, here they are: Why banks struggle to innovate The relevance of social …

Just got sent a link to PayPal's vision for the future of payments, used when they launched their flexible API in July: Very nice too. The Finanser is sponsored by Vocalink and Cisco:  For details of sponsorship email us.

Just got sent a link to PayPal's vision for the future of payments, used when they launched their flexible API in July: Very nice too. The Finanser is sponsored by Vocalink and Cisco:  For details of sponsorship email us.

Just read this wonderful list from Beloit College of how their student class of 2009 will think.  Here's my edited version.  Born in 1991: Freddie Mercury has always been dead. Mike Tyson has always been a criminal. The Green Giant has always been Shrek. They have never used a card …

Over the past few weeks, I've been posting a blog each week about social networking themes in the build up to the big bank tradeshow, SIBOS. First, I argued that banks don't innovate, and then I put forward the reasons why social networks are relevant to banks. Nevertheless, although I …

For those of you who haven't heard of Kiva, it's a P2P lending community with a difference.  It's the Grameen Bank of the Zopa world.  In other words, it facilitates microfinance, using the web as an enabler.  And it's wonderful. Why is it wonderful? OK.  It starts with that fact …