I hosted a dinner last night under Chatham House Rule (no quoting anyone) in a superb venue (Rules, the oldest restaurant in London, established in 1798). The conversation was all about client onboarding and the challenge of keeping it fresh. You get the KYC info, and then the customer is onboard. But for how long? …
Quite often, with attribution, I let other websites cut and paste this blog onto their own. American Banker did that recently but changed the title of the blog from The reports of my bank's death are greatly exaggerated to Like Airlines and Pharma, Banking’s Too Big to Disrupt*. In so doing, the intent of the original…
I’ve blogged before about how bitcoin will become institutionalised, that you cannot have money without government, why it needs a Foundation and how a Wild West structure for value exchange will fail. It’s certainly moving in that direction after the latest revelations about the Bitcoin Foundation, alongside the equally revealing announcements that banks are incorporating…
I often have these debates with the bitcoin community about whether you can really have money without government. Let’s not call it money without government even, let’s just focus upon the question of whether you can have value exchanges that are unregulated. The main protagonists for bitcoin continually tell me this is the reality. They…
I just received this fantastic infographic from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, discussing developments since 2008 and the financial crisis. The context is whether the Big 5 American Banks are still too big to fail (TBTF), and whether the US government has introduced effective controls under Dodd-Frank to avoid the TBTF situation if another financial…
In our annual opening meeting at the Financial Services Club David Doyle, Policy Adviser on all matters to do with EU Regulations, gave us a swift canter through the key headlines in European financial markets focus for 2015. These included the guiding principles that: All that is of systemic importance should be regulated and supervised…
I was talking about the component-based model and how it was now moving into component-based regulation, when someone challenged this notion. “Not our regulator”, he said. “Our regulator’s going the other way, and consolidating all regulations under one national system”. I thought: we did that years ago. When we had LIMRA, FIMBRA, IMRO, SFA,…
I often talk about component-based banking, most recently in this four-part series in August: Part One: Banking on Demand – the Bank in the Cloud Part Two: Banking on Demand – the Open Sourced Bank Part Three: Banking on Demand – the Customer Focused Bank Part Four: Banking on Demand – the Component-Based Bank but…
I often talk about component-based banking, most recently in this four-part series in August: Part One: Banking on Demand – the Bank in the Cloud Part Two: Banking on Demand – the Open Sourced Bank Part Three: Banking on Demand – the Customer Focused Bank Part Four: Banking on Demand – the Component-Based Bank but…
I’m called by a number of people about the BNP Paribas fine today. The fine looks like a done deal of $8.9 billion, and includes the bank admitting criminal charges as well as being banned from US dollar clearing. Why so bad? Because BNP failed to co-operate in the SEC and Federal Reserve’s investigations which,…
