I was trying to think of the future of banking and a model for making this work. This in the context of yesterday's US regulatory reforms announcements (see next blog: “things worth reading”, for the full details of these reforms), and so I scrabbled about wondering what happens as we go forward. Then, bearing in…
I was trying to think of the future of banking and a model for making this work. This in the context of yesterday's US regulatory reforms announcements (see next blog: “things worth reading”, for the full details of these reforms), and so I scrabbled about wondering what happens as we go forward. Then, bearing in…
Over a dinner this week, there was a fascinating discussion about the role of compliance. Compliance. A culture or a function? A view of complying and being subservient or of being proactively compliant. Compliance as a painful enforced change or an opportunity to re-engineer and improve. Compliance. Threat or opportunity? To be truthful, compliance can…
Over a dinner this week, there was a fascinating discussion about the role of compliance. Compliance. A culture or a function? A view of complying and being subservient or of being proactively compliant. Compliance as a painful enforced change or an opportunity to re-engineer and improve. Compliance. Threat or opportunity? To be truthful, compliance can…
I received a few interesting reports recently and just got a chance to read some of them. The first I got around to was from IBM's Institute for Business Value, with the grand title: “Toward transparency and sustainability: building a new financial order”. There are various statistics and insights in the report which put the…
I received a few interesting reports recently and just got a chance to read some of them. The first I got around to was from IBM's Institute for Business Value, with the grand title: “Toward transparency and sustainability: building a new financial order”. There are various statistics and insights in the report which put the…
On 9th June, we are holding a Capital Markets Chamber meeting of the Financial Services Club that will debate the motion: "This house believes new liquid architectures will dominate bank's strategic plans from next year onwards". This debate focuses upon how banks benefit from doing liquidity risk management right, particularly in a post-Lehman world. Lehman…
Robert Peston, the BBC’s lead reporter on the banks throughout this crisis and author of: Who Runs Britain?, presented a discussion I attended the other night. Robert surprisingly used a PowerPoint presentation to talk through this theme. I say surprisingly as we’re so used to seeing him sit and talk for soundbite minutes, that a…
