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I walked away from the Global Islamic Finance Forum (GIFF) with two quotes that I can’t get out of my head. The first: “a rising tide lifts all boats” from John F. Kennedy, 1963. The second: it is “better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep” by Tipu…

I was going to write up my panel discussion during the GIFF (Global Islamic Finance Forum) but Zawya did the job for me. Having said that, their website is quite difficult to access due to location restrictions and so I’m just going to cut and paste their summary here. Hope you like it! Revolutionising Islamic…

I was honoured to be invited to Kuala Lumpur to join the Global Islamic Finance Forum last week. Why? Because they had the Royal Sultan speak over dinner and the Prime Minister of Malaysia give a keynote speech? Yes but, more than this, I learned a lot. In particular, during my panel session, someone asked…

This week’s main blog discussions include … OK boomer! Mortgage by machines When I was a lad, to get a mortgage was a complex process. You would go to the bank for a meeting with the branch manager. The branch manager would assess you, your job security, work status and salary and, if all boxes…

After my blog yesterday about mortgage by machines, I left out one key component: humans. You have to remember that machines don’t think, they only appear to think because we develop them that way. Sure, there may be sentient machines at some point in the future when we get to the great Singularity but, until…

When I was a lad, to get a mortgage was a complex process. You would go to the bank for a meeting with the branch manager. The branch manager would assess you, your job security, work status and salary and, if all boxes were ticked, you could get a mortgage up to four times your…

I have blogged often about change and how people avoid it (who moved my cheese?), but it cropped up again the other day when I was reading Harvard’s Rosabeth Moss Kanter* thoughts on business. She has six key principles for business: Show up. Speak up. Look up. Team up. Never give up. Lift others up. Many…

My presentations these days are focused upon the challenge of change. Every day, something is in the headlines to challenge your thinking from AI to quantum to digital currencies to digital identities. The only constant is change. Whenever I talk, I come back to the wrongly attributed quotation of Charles Darwin that it does not…

I was really interested that Barclays Private Bank published an interview about AI the other day. Why? Because it’s the private bank and it’s from a bank. The interview is with Professor Michael Wooldridge, one of Oxford University’s leading AI academics with more than 450 research papers to his name. He knows his stuff. What…

This week’s main discussions include … Is crypto the solution or the problem? Paying with crypto is traceable but favoured by fraudsters. Is it the solution or the problem? Fraudsters never know how their action impacts their victim, until confronted by the person they’ve defrauded. Is crypto the solution? After all, unlike fiat currencies, all…