Opinion

Let the iWars begin

Inspired by three events this week, I focused on apps for my panel discussion today … and got shot down in flames for talking bollards. Harrumph. Here are the events, the logic, the proposal and why it got shot down. First, the events. Event number one: my first iPhone My Blackberry has just been switched…

Mobile-market-share

What do criminals, bankers and Warren Buffett have in common?

Some years ago, I delivered a presentation as a keynote with the title: “All Bankers are Criminals”. I actually didn’t mean “all”. The chicken feed, battery farmed, commercial, transactional and retail bankers are pin-stripe suited, humble pie, nice guys. I was talking about the evil animals of Wall Street and the City. These jungle animals…

All Bankers are Criminals

Branches are dead, the future is social (Part Two)

After my post last week about my latest presentation with an audio file, my keynote in Bahrain this week was going to be a variation of the presentation.  Due to being unable to fly to Bahrain, I mentioned on Monday that most of the day had been spent editing a video file for the conference…

The World of Me (Part Two)

Building on the World of Me post last week, I’ve just found out how powerful the tools are that are at our disposal today. This week, I’m meant to be chairing a conference in Bahrain: MEFTEC.  MEFTEC is now in its sixth year, and I’ve attended every year as a speaker or as chair. Guess…

MEFTEC link

Branches are dead, the future is social

I haven’t posted a presentation recently.  Been a bit lazy, so here’s a bonus. My latest presentation on the future of (retail) banking: Branches are dead, the future is social View more presentations from Chris Skinner. And an audio file to go with it: Download Chris Skinner, EBF2010 (45MB) This is a keynote presentation I…

EBF2010

The World of Me

I was watching a program about Sandi Thom. Sandi was the girl who played music in her bedroom, put it on MySpace, got picked up by a record firm and became an overnight star with a massive hit: "I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair)" back in 2006. She was…

FSClub 2000

The “Vampire Squid” squeaks

After the long analysis of Jamie Dimon’s 36-page shareholder letter, we now have an 8-page shareholder letter from Goldman Sachs. I cannot remember such letters being of such interest in the past, and wonder if the let’s tell-all letter writing from Bank CEOs is the new fashion for the teens (or 2010s if you prefer)….

What does it mean if the Internet is your bank?

In this guest blog entry Brett King, blogger at Banking4Tomorrow and author of the new book Bank 2.0, looks at what it means to live in an age where the internet is THE bank … In a quick straw poll recently conducted via Linked In we had a set of responses that confirms pretty much…

LinkedIn Poll

If identities are unique, why do I have so many?

It’s a question I’ve asked before, but is becoming even more pertinent as I see new identity management programmes being rolled out that are fragmented, uncoordinated and, in some ways, nonsensical. The point was brought home to me as I listened to the stream of discussion about identity management that took place as a workgroup…

Why PayPal et al REALLY matter!

So yesterday I argued that PayPal and their brethren of social monies don’t matter. It was like unleashing the sceptical banker that I know resides deep within me, and it felt good. Then I got a dose of new reality vision (maybe due to so many comments on yesterday’s piece) and it felt not so…

PayPal for biz