We had a fantastic meeting of the Financial Services Club last night. It was the close of our 2010-2011 season of meetings, and therefore slightly racier subject matter with Richard Noble, OBE. Richard is an inspirational character and the driving force behind Britain’s land speed record winning cars: Thrust2 and Thrust SuperSonic Car (SSC). Richard…
I said yesterday that the other topic that keeps coming up is innovation. Innovation is something that comes and goes in banking like Chief Executives and Heads of Risk … as in it appears and disappears pretty often. During the build up to the financial crisis, innovation was everywhere. Then it disappeared for a while….
I said yesterday that the other topic that keeps coming up is innovation. Innovation is something that comes and goes in banking like Chief Executives and Heads of Risk … as in it appears and disappears pretty often. During the build up to the financial crisis, innovation was everywhere. Then it disappeared for a while….
In a recent speech at the Financial Services Club, JP Rangaswami talked about “How banks should think about technology and innovation”. JP Rangaswami is Chief Scientist at Salesforce.com, author of Confused of Calcutta, and one of the most innovative technologists around (full bio at end of blog). It proved to be an incredibly popular session, with…
It intrigues me how often we have a conversation about innovation, and everyone starts talking about new technology. “Oh, have you seen our iPad app, it’s really hot.” “Sorry, but our Android apps beat that hands down, and Android is hot today.” “Yea, Android is hot today but forget all of those things. You need…
I was at the Finovate meeting in New York last week. Finovate is a financial innovation show that originated in 2007 as the brainchild of Jim Bruene of NetBanker and Eric Mattson, CEO of Online Financial Innovations, the parent company of NetBanker, Online Banking Report and the Finovate Conference Series. If you’re not familiar with…
Here's my latest retail payments focused presentation. It's premise is that there's loads of innovation out there, with micropayments and iPhone apps being hotbeds of innovation for developed economies whilst microfinance and 2G GSM messaging being creative fields for developing economies. However, all of these innovations are just froth on the cake of the payments…
I’m continually impressed and amazed by the speed of change in the technology of the investment markets. For example, last year was all talk about low latency and lit versus dark pools. This year, it’s all about private cloud-based services based upon colocation and proximity services. Next year, it will be all about real-time liquidity…
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