Building on yesterday's comments about UK banks missing out on new media, if you want proof you only need to look at Revolution's annual awards for 2009. Revolution Magazine is one of my favourite monthly reads, as it's all about innovation online. Each year their awards ceremony recognises the best of British internet marketing across…
Building on yesterday's comments about UK banks missing out on new media, if you want proof you only need to look at Revolution's annual awards for 2009. Revolution Magazine is one of my favourite monthly reads, as it's all about innovation online. Each year their awards ceremony recognises the best of British internet marketing across…
Zopa announced results this week that showed lending had risen 140 percent year on year. In short, Zopa offers a lean and mean, razor thin margin system for loans. As an lender, I enter Zopa and place an amount – let’s say $10,000 – in the system. Zopa then spreads that loan across a range of borrowers…
This is the sixth post in a series about why banking will be free (you can find Parts One, Two,Three, Four and Five if you want to). In this area let's get into collaborative technologies and, more specifically, collaborative competition. It seems like an oxymoron to talk about collaborative competition and yet for years we…
I haven't written much about SEPA, the Single Euro Payments Area, lately because there's not been much to update although the last time I did, I asked the question: "Are SEPA and the PSD completely broken?" However, there is now some news as I was with Gerard Hartsink in Hong Kong and Ruth Wandhofer in…
I haven't written much about SEPA, the Single Euro Payments Area, lately because there's not been much to update although the last time I did, I asked the question: "Are SEPA and the PSD completely broken?" However, there is now some news as I was with Gerard Hartsink in Hong Kong and Ruth Wandhofer in…
I’ve talked about UMPay, a JV between Unionpay and China Mobile, as well as eBank, an internet bank leader in Japan now owned by an etailer, Rakuten Group. This leads nicely into what is probably the most innovative bank I've seen so far: Jibun Bank, a Japanese bank which translates into ‘my bank’ in English….
Thinkers360 Thought Leader
Global 100 - 2024 Winner
Chris Skinner - Financial Markets Advisor of the Year - The Finanser - UK 2023
Best Financial Markets Advisor of the Year 2023
