Payments

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…

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…

This is the last of a series of blogs about social finance that has covered new entrants to banking, their barriers to entry, how they might disrupt banks, social technologies and more. If you missed the earlier entries, here they are: Why banks struggle to innovate The relevance of social media to banks Why banks…

This is the last of a series of blogs about social finance that has covered new entrants to banking, their barriers to entry, how they might disrupt banks, social technologies and more. If you missed the earlier entries, here they are: Why banks struggle to innovate The relevance of social media to banks Why banks…

Just as we post over 500 pages of research that conclude the European Commission's Payment Services Directive's (PSD) implementation could destabilise the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), the Commission strikes back. Yesterday, they published a whole range of documents and details about how they would make SEPA work. "The European Commission has adopted a Communication…