Regulation

IBM discovers banks don’t understand their customers

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…

IBM Financial Crisis Chart

Banks must still deleverage … and deleverage lots!

There are some people you can listen to for hours, and some that send you to sleep when they open their mouth. Willem Buiter definitely falls into the first category – who said I fall into the latter? – which is why we invited him to address the Financial Services Club recently. It happened to…

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Banks must still deleverage … and deleverage lots!

There are some people you can listen to for hours, and some that send you to sleep when they open their mouth. Willem Buiter definitely falls into the first category – who said I fall into the latter? – which is why we invited him to address the Financial Services Club recently. It happened to…

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This house believes new liquid architectures will dominate

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…

BBC’s Robert Peston presents …

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…

BBC’s Robert Peston presents …

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…

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…