Opinion

I said I’d been thinking about trust, and this is down to a couple of marketing surveys on the subject. First, there’s the Global Trustometer from Edelman. I’ve been a follower of this for years. You can see summary results at Edelman’s website. For quite a few years, even during the good times, Edelman found…

I said I’d been thinking about trust, and this is down to a couple of marketing surveys on the subject. First, there’s the Global Trustometer from Edelman. I’ve been a follower of this for years. You can see summary results at Edelman’s website. For quite a few years, even during the good times, Edelman found…

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…