Payments

One thing banks are concerned about with PayPal is if users place more funds on account, as this means you could operate a revolving debit account within PayPal with no funds ever flowing through the banking system.  For example, I could place £1,000 on debit with PayPal and then use that to buy and sell…

So the afternoon progresses and I’m now bouncing around like a ping-pong ball between SEPA, corporates, Asia, FpML, Fedwire … you name it.  It must be to do with this idea that yours truly can assimilate the global banking trends and regurgitate them at will.  Can I really do this?  No way.  I’m just a…

I’m sure you can see there’s a theme to this week’s blogging kicked off by Posh and Becks in my first posting.  Yes, it’s got to be a Spice Girls week.  Not sure how I’ll get through Ginger, Sporty, Baby and Scarey … although there’s a few folks around here that remind me of those…

I’m sure you can see there’s a theme to this week’s blogging kicked off by Posh and Becks in my first posting.  Yes, it’s got to be a Spice Girls week.  Not sure how I’ll get through Ginger, Sporty, Baby and Scarey … although there’s a few folks around here that remind me of those…

I’m sure you can see there’s a theme to this week’s blogging kicked off by Posh and Becks in my first posting.  Yes, it’s got to be a Spice Girls week.  Not sure how I’ll get through Ginger, Sporty, Baby and Scarey … although there’s a few folks around here that remind me of those…

As you’d expect, there are copious amounts of liquid refreshment available during SIBOS.  Many of the booths have champagne and wine, and then at around 5ish the general masses enjoy cocktails across the exhibition floor. This then leads into the evening’s frivolities and I enjoyed a couple of parties last night … after all, just…

As you’d expect, there are copious amounts of liquid refreshment available during SIBOS.  Many of the booths have champagne and wine, and then at around 5ish the general masses enjoy cocktails across the exhibition floor. This then leads into the evening’s frivolities and I enjoyed a couple of parties last night … after all, just…

After a few cups of tea in the harbour … or I threw mine in there as American tea is never quite English breakfast … I wandered back to the BECC (Becks: there he is again, ah no he isn’t, it’s the Boston Conference and Exhibition Centre, the BCEC) for more on new thinking for…

After a few cups of tea in the harbour … or I threw mine in there as American tea is never quite English breakfast … I wandered back to the BECC (Becks: there he is again, ah no he isn’t, it’s the Boston Conference and Exhibition Centre, the BCEC) for more on new thinking for…

Having attended the funds management session, I can now see why I got out of insurance twenty years ago.  I mean, it may be interesting for the guys involved but watching this session was a little bit slow.    The main outcome of the discussion for me was how firms had moved away from manufacturing…