Payments

For the past two years, we have performed a major survey around the euro and the Eurozone, and how the developments of the infrastructures to support this is changing. The survey for 2011 is now live and looks at the world after the PSD and SEPA, particularly the implications of the end of the euro,…

In the 1990s, I spent a long time studying bank trends and the future strategies banks and other would take.  The conclusion I came to is that there would be a general cross-industry bank trend, where non-banks would enter banking and, in order to get banking skills, would acquire banks.  The end-game would be that…

I’ve been in lots of meetings in the past two weeks about bank to corporate relationship and the general dialogue goes that banks don’t understand corporates' needs. Corporate: What we want is for our bank to understand our business as well as we do, and make it work like we want.  We want the banks to…

I’ve been in lots of meetings in the past two weeks about bank to corporate relationship and the general dialogue goes that banks don’t understand corporates' needs. Corporate: What we want is for our bank to understand our business as well as we do, and make it work like we want.  We want the banks to…

At SIBOS 2004, Heidi Miller asked tough questions of the payments community.  I often refer back to her speech, particularly the statement that, in the age of the internet SWIFT, “what have you done for me lately?” This inspired our payments survey, the results of which are now available as mentioned yesterday but, in another…

At SIBOS 2004, Heidi Miller asked tough questions of the payments community.  I often refer back to her speech, particularly the statement that, in the age of the internet SWIFT, “what have you done for me lately?” This inspired our payments survey, the results of which are now available as mentioned yesterday but, in another…