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Half the world is unbanked, especially women … it will change

I just received a Gallup report for the World Bank about gender differences in bank account usage. The headline is that gender barriers exist worldwide to banking. Hmmm … women are less included in finance than men. Hmmm … my initial reaction was so what? No, I’m no misogynist, but it doesn’t surprise me that…

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Lloyds’ Olympian Challenge

It’s Friday, it’s summertime and it’s the day the London 2012 Olympics begin. Fantastic. Tonight’s opening ceremony should be amazing and so, rather than talking about banking today, I thought I would talk about banking Olympians. Lloyds Bank were one of the first to sponsor the London Olympics. They have an official bank sponsor website…

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The greatest minds want to avoid Earth’s destruction – do you?

As recently mentioned, I attended the Re|source 2012 conference at Oxford University last week. The meeting took place in the historic School of Examinations building … … and was a meeting of the great and the good to discuss how to build a sustainable world. The conference had many of the leaders from politics and…

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Metro Bank: 200 branches by 2020

A couple of years ago, I was talking a lot about Metro Bank. The reason being that it is Britain’s first brand spanking new retail bank in living memory. The bank has since received lots of free publicity as the media love an upstart, but I have not blogged much about it. That’s changing today…

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Is your boss a demented maniac? I hope so

I’ve spent a long time working for maniacs, idiots and psychopaths, and now I know why: that’s what it takes to get to the top in banking technology circles. It’s been scientifically proven too – to get to the top of a company, you need to stay there a long time, have psychopathic traits and…

Is the Queen worth it?

I was travelling on British Airways the other day, and really enjoyed their article in Business Life Magazine about how much the Queen costs the economy, As a result, I thought it worth posting today as we’re about to head off on a four-day vacation in Britain to celebrate her sixty years on the throne…

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Case Study: Barclays Pingit for Consumers and Corporates

There’s a strong dialogue about why new services such as PayPal and Square take off so fast, and the answer is a combination of usability and accessibility. If something is easy and it works, then it can gain critical mass fast. That’s true of Facebook, Twitter and other social media. The more intuitive, accessible, easy…

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SEPA will survive even if the Euro doesn’t, according to banking industry

We've just completed our annual survey on SEPA and the PSD, which will be released via a free webinar next week [to register, please visit:http://digbig.com/5bgayr]. The headlines of the survey were released today for EBADay, and so here's the full press release: SEPA will survive even if the Euro doesn't according to banking industry Strong…

Billions of reasons to use social media in business

Interesting dialogue about social media in finance. Social media is so wide and vast today that it’s hard to cover in one blog post. Most people think Facebook and twitter when you say social media (eight and five years old respectively), but it’s far more than that these days. It’s Groupon, foursquare, YouTube, Tumblr, Google+,…

Billions of reasons to use social media in business

Interesting dialogue about social media in finance. Social media is so wide and vast today that it’s hard to cover in one blog post. Most people think Facebook and twitter when you say social media (eight and five years old respectively), but it’s far more than that these days. It’s Groupon, foursquare, YouTube, Tumblr, Google+,…

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