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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…

Using video as evidence of compliance

Tomorrow, there's an interesting little conference called "AV in the City" down at Canary Wharf. Not your usual event as it's all about multimedia projectors and CCTV for banks and financial firms. I got roped into it as one of my strong beliefs is in using video for finance, as mentioned before, and TANDBERG is…

Using video as evidence of compliance

Tomorrow, there's an interesting little conference called "AV in the City" down at Canary Wharf. Not your usual event as it's all about multimedia projectors and CCTV for banks and financial firms. I got roped into it as one of my strong beliefs is in using video for finance, as mentioned before, and TANDBERG is…

A new EU regulatory structure

There's a conference in Brussels over the last two days looking at moving towards a new supervisory architecture across Europe.   This follows on from the de Larosière report in February and Charlie McCrrevy has announced a variety of changes in EU regulatory structures. In one speech, Mr. McCreevy reinforces the need for the 5% rule…

A new EU regulatory structure

There's a conference in Brussels over the last two days looking at moving towards a new supervisory architecture across Europe.   This follows on from the de Larosière report in February and Charlie McCrrevy has announced a variety of changes in EU regulatory structures. In one speech, Mr. McCreevy reinforces the need for the 5% rule…

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