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A real-time global pulse

As we use low latency systems, faster payments, twitter and other technologies, we silently watch the revolution of our world from local to global communities, and to a real-time global pulse. The thing is, do you ever stop to notice? The fact that you can trade in a millionth of a millionth of a second,…

The total view on SEPA and the PSD

At the payments conference I attended last week, a major theme was the Payment Services Directive (PSD) and Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). Summarising the PSD and SEPA areas makes for interesting reading, and builds upon the two entries I made last week about the show titled "SEPA may not happen", and "Quantifying views on…

The total view on SEPA and the PSD

At the payments conference I attended last week, a major theme was the Payment Services Directive (PSD) and Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). Summarising the PSD and SEPA areas makes for interesting reading, and builds upon the two entries I made last week about the show titled "SEPA may not happen", and "Quantifying views on…

Quantifying people’s views on SEPA

The conference that Johnny Brit addressed was attended by around 300 people, mostly bankers and payments solutions providers from across Europe. Throughout the conference, interactive electronic voting was used to gauge people's views of the markets, the economic crisis and the implementation of SEPA. Here are the results. The first question  was: What is the…

Quantifying people’s views on SEPA

The conference that Johnny Brit addressed was attended by around 300 people, mostly bankers and payments solutions providers from across Europe. Throughout the conference, interactive electronic voting was used to gauge people's views of the markets, the economic crisis and the implementation of SEPA. Here are the results. The first question  was: What is the…

The danger that SEPA may not happen

I was invited to a conference this week and given the title of the talk as: “Why there’s a very real danger that SEPA may not happen”. As a good European who believes in the PSD and SEPA, I declined to discuss this and invited my long-time acquaintance Sir Jonathan Brit to speak on my…

The danger that SEPA may not happen

I was invited to a conference this week and given the title of the talk as: “Why there’s a very real danger that SEPA may not happen”. As a good European who believes in the PSD and SEPA, I declined to discuss this and invited my long-time acquaintance Sir Jonathan Brit to speak on my…

Using mobiles as a financial channel

On May 28th, the Financial Services Club is holding the second joint meeting with Intellect on Technology Trends – the first was in March and focused upon low latency – sponsored by Speechly Bircham. This meeting will focus upon mobile as a financial channel. The idea of mobile financial services has been a hot topic…

Girls, games and gambling

David Birch and I cross paths regularly and he kindly spoke to the Financial Services Club recently about the future of money. For those who don’t know him, David is a Grade-A Geek. Not my description of him, but the description of the Independent newspaper from an article in 2004 and, judging by this photo…

David Birch, fashion week

Girls, games and gambling

David Birch and I cross paths regularly and he kindly spoke to the Financial Services Club recently about the future of money. For those who don’t know him, David is a Grade-A Geek. Not my description of him, but the description of the Independent newspaper from an article in 2004 and, judging by this photo…

David Birch, fashion week