Payments

SIBOS and most conferences are always a good moment to release research. We released ours last week, but there are several reports that stand out. For example, Barclays Commercial Banking polled 160 people across financial institutions in London, Dubai, Frankfurt and Singapore, to find out what they looked for in their selection of a transaction…

SIBOS and most conferences are always a good moment to release research. We released ours last week, but there are several reports that stand out. For example, Barclays Commercial Banking polled 160 people across financial institutions in London, Dubai, Frankfurt and Singapore, to find out what they looked for in their selection of a transaction…

I think SIBOS is jinxed. In 2001, 9/11 happened just as we all planned to go to Singapore and the show was cancelled. In 2008, Lehman Brothers collapsed the day the show started and so we spent the week trying to get over it (what's new, some said). In 2009, the hand of God intervenes…

So, after chairing the securities infrastructure panel it was off for the first innotribe session of the week. Innotribe is all about visions of the next generation of banking and is specifically debating the role of cloud computing, mashups and crowdsourcing. My session is leading the crowdsourcing debate and we’ve already come up with something…

So, after chairing the securities infrastructure panel it was off for the first innotribe session of the week. Innotribe is all about visions of the next generation of banking and is specifically debating the role of cloud computing, mashups and crowdsourcing. My session is leading the crowdsourcing debate and we’ve already come up with something…

It’s great being in another timezone as, after my 11-hour flight, I felt really tired so an early dinner and then bed by 10 o’clock … … waking up at 1:30 a.m.for a nice five hours of watching movies whilst trying to get back to sleep. I get to my first meeting and say, “y’know,…

Like 5,000 other bankers and payments people, I left yesterday for an 11-hour flight in my case to Hong Kong: As you can see, I flew Cathay Pacific sponsored by HSBC at Heathrow which, on landing in HK, switched to the Royal Bank of Scotland as sponsor no less!  As the latter is owned by…

Like 5,000 other bankers and payments people, I left yesterday for an 11-hour flight in my case to Hong Kong: As you can see, I flew Cathay Pacific sponsored by HSBC at Heathrow which, on landing in HK, switched to the Royal Bank of Scotland as sponsor no less!  As the latter is owned by…

As mentioned the other day, the ATM has just turned forty years old, but I missed this item and was sent it by a friend. Apparently, one entrepeneurial firm is customising their ATMs to suit local lingo by launching the world's first Cockney cash machine, or should that be sausage and mash machine: Brummie, Geordie…