I’ve blogged for over a week about blockchain based developments in Clearing & Settlement and Trade Finance, and will continue for another week talking about the developments in Payments and Digital Identity. However, at this point, I should clarify that I use the term blockchain as an overall term to describe what is happening. I…
In 2009, I coined the word BaaS. No, nothing to do with sheep! Instead, BaaS stands for Banking-as-a-Service. In 2016, everyone is talking about this: Banking as a Platform (BaaP), The Financial Brand, March 2016 Banking-as-a-Service: Common play of banks and fintech, FinTech Rankings, March 2016 ‘Banking as a Service’ for Fintechs Seeking Scale, American…
I chaired a really interesting debate yesterday between MP John Redwood and former MEP Baroness Sharon Bowles at the Association of UK Payments Institutions conference. The discussion was should we stay or should we go, or the Brexit if you prefer. John Redwood has spent years as a Eurosceptic, standing against John Major in the…
I’ve been presenting a summary of Digital Bank and ValueWeb for a few months now. It is the story of the origins of moneykind and, as many have now heard the story, I thought it’s about time to share this on the blog. If you have half an hour free, then you can watch the presentation. It’s been filmed…
ValueWeb makes the contention that you cannot have an internet of things without a real-time and cheap internet of value. A core part of this is focused upon building a cheap shared ledger structure for digital identity and digital currencies and guess what? That cheap shared ledger is most likely going to be built in Africa. …
Last week I chaired the inaugural Dot Finance Live conference in Nairobi, Kenya. It is Africa’s premier FinTech event, drawing people from all over the countries of sub-Sahara Africa. What struck me as I listened to lots of keynotes about mobile innovation and mobile financial inclusion, is that Africa is actually leading the world in…
I remember being involved in a business process re-engineering project for an insurance firm some years ago. We looked at how the underwriting process worked on complex insurance risks and discovered that in the middle of the process, the documentation would move to the overseas desk. It would sit there for a day or two,…
The Cards & Payments Awards 2016 took place the other day, so I thought I’d pick out the three Awards that interest me the most: Best Technology Initiative; Best Initiative in Mobile Payments; and Best Industry Innovation. BEST TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE Winner: Bottomline Technologies Bottomline’s Agency Services is a relatively new solution, and the interest it…
