It was really interesting listening to Jamie Woodruff, The Ethical Hacker, talking about how he can break into anyone’s system. It’s pretty easy when you know how. His discussion shows just how easy it is, if you have confidence to con. This reminded me of Tony Sales who spoke at the Financial Services Club three…
Just heard a really interesting point of view from Professor Tim Congdon, CEO of International Monetary Research. He was putting a clearly positive spin from a City viewpoint on the outlook for Brexit. He began by talking about Medieval times of doing business and stated that most financial activity took part outside the cities they…
As I look back on my travels this year, it’s interesting to see where I have and haven’t been. Spent a lot of time in Singapore, Istanbul, London (obviously), New York and Washington. I count these as my hotbeds of fintech innovation. I’ve also briefly dropped in to Hong Kong, Berlin and Bangkok. These are…
I guess in concluding this weeks’ thoughts, I’m left reflecting on a similar idea to the one I blogged a couple of weeks ago about a world turned on its head. This time it’s a different take on the same conundrum. We live in the developed economies complaining about legacy; developing economies are just excited…
I consider myself a citizen of the world. I guess that’s because I fly around so much. Everywhere I go, I find the same thing. Warm, fantastic people who welcome me like a brother and complain about the idiot running their country. This is common to every country, just that some idiots are more extreme…
We’ve seen some pretty strong attacks on banks cyberdefences in the past year. Three major incidents in the SWIFT network; 50 at the Federal Reserve; problems at the Bank of England and many other central banks; a major incident at the Danish payment processorNETS; and big banks like HSBC and JPMorgan have all been affected. Admittedly,…
