The ugly, the bad and the good
It’s interesting that governments around the world have announced huge stimulus packages to protect workers, small businesses and life in general. Trillions of dollars. Great. The reality is that no one is getting it. You see these announcements and try to get hold of the bank to get the stimulus. First thing that happens is…

The Finanser’s Week: 30th March 2020 – 5th April 2020
The main blog headlines are … Are the big banks failing the people? I wouldn’t usually blog on a Saturday, but these are exceptional times and these are exceptional ideas. I’ve already seen some incredible innovation from start-ups looking to help those in need. For example, I listened to the ideas of Curl on Thursday…

Are the big banks failing the people?
I wouldn’t usually blog on a Saturday, but these are exceptional times and these are exceptional ideas. I’ve already seen some incredible innovation from start-ups looking to help those in need. For example, I listened to the ideas of Curl on Thursday, who are running a campaign to Save Our Local. The idea is that…

Everything FinTech Asia, with contributions from Ant Financial and Tencent’s WeBank
There’s a new edition of The FinTech Times that has just been released. It was designed to coincide with the Spring events in Asia that would be kicking off round about now but, as most of you now know, all events have been postponed. Nevertheless, with contributions from 11:FS, WeBank, Ant Financial’s AI team and…

Trillions of dollars of #coronavirus aid appears … from where?
These are extraordinary times. No one can remember anything like this, except maybe those over the age of 80. The last time anything like today’s world happened was the Second World War but, as I said the other day, they were fighting each other. We are fighting a thing. The world has stopped. What’s interesting…

Banks agree a global package of services for those hit by coronavirus
I don’t usually share press releases, but this one is too important to hold back. PRESS RELEASE THIS RELEASE IS UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL 23:59 MARCH 31, 2020 [BASEL, SWITZERLAND, MARCH 31 2020] Banking system works out how to respond to coronavirus crisis in massive, global, co-ordinated agreement The Bank for International Settling (BIS) has quietly…

Banks questions about doing digital transformation
I did a presentation to a conference via video link the other day. Slido allowed audience members to ask questions through the presentation, and the list of questions at the end was quite extensive. I didn’t get time to answer all of them, but here’s a selection. The most popular question at the top of…


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