Numbers

It’s Friday, so we should have some fun. Unfortunately, it’s both a bit of fun and a bit of a challenge. The challenge is how to differentiate the bank? That’s always been a challenge. Most banks reckon that they don’t need to differentiate the bank because once you’ve got a …

I don’t always praise, but I will shower some praise on British Airways today.  Not for their service, flights, destinations or lounges, but for their inflight magazine Business Life.  It always inspires me a little as, each month, the BA Business Life magazine publishes a bunch of trivia facts that …

I don’t always praise, but I will shower some praise on British Airways today.  Not for their service, flights, destinations or lounges, but for their inflight magazine Business Life.  It always inspires me a little as, each month, the BA Business Life magazine publishes a bunch of trivia facts that …

I just got this infographic on SEPA from Misys and thought it worth sharing (doubleclick for larger version).  Nice!

I just got this infographic on SEPA from Misys and thought it worth sharing (doubleclick for larger version).  Nice!

I’ve written a lot about Bitcoin over the last year: Is Bitcoin the future of money … or are we smoking dope?  (October 2011) Bitcoin: immersive or subversive? (January 2012) You should take Bitcoin seriously (September 2012) A new currency payment system is about to explode (February 2013) But had …

It’s the Mobile World Congress week this week, so everyone’s talking about mobile. In our space, the big announcements came from MasterCard and Visa. MasterCard launched a digital wallet in a joint venture with mFoundry, whilst Visa announced an NFC partnership with Samsung.

It’s the Mobile World Congress week this week, so everyone’s talking about mobile. In our space, the big announcements came from MasterCard and Visa. MasterCard launched a digital wallet in a joint venture with mFoundry, whilst Visa announced an NFC partnership with Samsung.

I recently hosted a meeting of financial market players to talk about how to rebuild trust in banking.  It was an interesting evening, with most of the attendees accepting that trust in banks was at an al-time low.  But how low is an all-time low?

I recently hosted a meeting of financial market players to talk about how to rebuild trust in banking.  It was an interesting evening, with most of the attendees accepting that trust in banks was at an al-time low.  But how low is an all-time low?

I’ve blogged and presented about this subject many times before, so rather than repeating all that, here’s a summation with a new twist. Money is meaningless because we no longer deal in money.

Back to reality and what’s happening in the world today. I received a bunch of stats and facts from one of my readers last week lookiing at public (governmental) debt across various countries and geographies, and comparing internal debt (money borrowed within country) with external debt (money borrowed from overseas). …

The Sunday Times had a specially sponsored section on mobile business this weekend.  The section gave some interesting stats that are worth repeating (just in case you didn’t think mobile payments is big business):

The Sunday Times had a specially sponsored section on mobile business this weekend.  The section gave some interesting stats that are worth repeating (just in case you didn’t think mobile payments is big business):

The World Payments Report (WPR) has just come out.  It is the 8th report produced by EFMA, in partnership with Cap Gemini and the Royal Bank of Scotland (ABN AMRO previously), and provides a good analysis of global payments movements in the same way as we do with our European …