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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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. …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Barclaycard contactless sticks it to you
I feel like I spend a lot of time these days dissing contactless payments, or at least those that rely on NFC and RFID chip technologies. The reason being that I cannot see why I would want to get something out of my pocket to touch on a terminal – …
Read More »Barclaycard contactless sticks it to you
I feel like I spend a lot of time these days dissing contactless payments, or at least those that rely on NFC and RFID chip technologies. The reason being that I cannot see why I would want to get something out of my pocket to touch on a terminal – …
Read More »Why cash works and mobile internet doesn’t
The wireless world of connectivity we live in has risks, and the greatest risk has to be infection of technology. Technology viruses like trojans and man-in-the-middle look mild today, when you see the tsunami of malware that’s out there. Just a year ago, I was saying that banks should offer advice …
Read More »Why cash works and mobile internet doesn’t
The wireless world of connectivity we live in has risks, and the greatest risk has to be infection of technology. Technology viruses like trojans and man-in-the-middle look mild today, when you see the tsunami of malware that’s out there. Just a year ago, I was saying that banks should offer advice …
Read More »A crowdsourced bank mobile app
Today, I read a few headlines that make me sit up and take note. First, the news that China’s just bursting over a billion mobile users. Yes, China is a big economy with 1.3 billion citizens. A billion mobile users is big news as it means that almost all Chinese …
Read More »A crowdsourced bank mobile app
Today, I read a few headlines that make me sit up and take note. First, the news that China’s just bursting over a billion mobile users. Yes, China is a big economy with 1.3 billion citizens. A billion mobile users is big news as it means that almost all Chinese …
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