Payments

I finish the day and my feet are tired and my head is buzzing. I feel like I’ve walked about 20 miles and been awake since 2007. SIBOS days take their toll. The breaking news about Lloyds TSB and HBOS fuels the rumour mill and gossip columns, and the stands and exhibitors are more interested in the…

Waking up on day three of SIBOS, I feel a little more positive than I did yesterday.  After all, it’s not raining, just cloudy, and the bus to the convention centre was a short 20 minute ride, unlike yesterday’s 45 minute jam. Last night was strange though.  After a nice dinner, I went to a…

Waking up on day three of SIBOS, I feel a little more positive than I did yesterday.  After all, it’s not raining, just cloudy, and the bus to the convention centre was a short 20 minute ride, unlike yesterday’s 45 minute jam. Last night was strange though.  After a nice dinner, I went to a…

Running around the conference and exhibition hall madly today and it’s no wonder that SIBOS already feels like a week, even though it’s only been a day.  A hard day’s night as they say. After meeting a few folks, chatting and networking, I dropped into the "CSDs and Custodians – Adapt or Die" session.  This…

Running around the conference and exhibition hall madly today and it’s no wonder that SIBOS already feels like a week, even though it’s only been a day.  A hard day’s night as they say. After meeting a few folks, chatting and networking, I dropped into the "CSDs and Custodians – Adapt or Die" session.  This…

The last bit of my day today was chairing a discussion on e-invoicing. This is a regular debating slot I host on the IBM booth each year, and it’s now in its third year. This afternoon’s debate included Charles Bryant, former Chairman of the EPC and now working on e-invoicing with the EBA, and Bo…

I’ve spent the last two days locked in a conference centre in Nice at a key meeting of finance ministers, politicians, policymakers, bankers, insurers and exchanges. You can tell the type of meeting by the number of lashes each person has received by the tongues of their counterparties. Wonderful to watch and be a part…

I know I go on and on and on about Web 2.0 and social media, but I do this because these trends illustrate a fundamental shift in the way we live. The fact I’m blogging here every day, downloading music and film files, connecting globally with all my friends, family and business colleagues through my…

I spent yesterday with a group of Japanese bankers discussing the future of banking. Actually, I say ‘discussing’ but Japanese bankers are very polite and so there were very few questions. Therefore, I spent yesterday with a group of Japanese bankers telling them about the future of banking. All of this was with simultaneous translation…

Hi everyone.  After a week away, I’m back: relaxed, recharged and reinvigorated. I don’t know about you, but when I get back to the office I immediately wonder, “What’s happened? What’s new? What’s changed?” Looking at SIBOS, the SWIFT tradeshow starting in Vienna next week, one thing that should be changing faster is SEPA’s implementation…