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Banks’ legacy liability is resolved by the cloud

So I just finished presenting at a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery conference.  Not my strongest subject although, after years of battering my liver with alcohol, I am pretty adept at Disaster Recovery. Anyways, not knowing much about the subject, I just called the presentation Life’s a Glitch, as there appear to be so many…

2014’s priorities for investment banks: neural latency intellisense

 Investment banking as a sector looks to have a much more positive outlook this year than in previous years.  The year will see the implementation of a lot of the regulatory changes formulated since the crisis hit, and a marketplace that is starting to settle into the new normal, whatever that is. From a general…

Visions of the Future

As we enjoy the headlines coming out of CES in San Francisco: Android device sales 'to top one billion' in 2014 Google Glass-controlled treadmill debuts at CES 2014 Samsung unveils new Galaxy NotePro and TabPro tablets Samsung shows off its Bendable TV Michael Bay walks out of CES after fluffing Samsung TV presentation LG shows off first…

The outlook for banking in 2014

Just before Christmas, I held discussions with many retail, commercial and investment bankers in London about their thoughts for the New Year.  Here are the headlines: Economy In the UK, 2014 is the year of the next general election which must be called on or before May 2015, and that factor will be a key…

2013 was the year for renewal

This is my penultimate review of 2013, as we head towards the shutdown season, so here goes 2013 was the year of meditation. Banks had the chance to think, reflect, plan and look ahead. After five years of manic panic, hysteria, anger, fear, angst and doubt, 2013 was the first year we could actually have…

The Future of SWIFT: a meeting with Gottfried Leibbrandt

Still busy in the Financial Services Club world with meetings in Stockholm, Vienna, Warsaw and London all in the past two weeks. The interesting theme of all these meetings, and those in our future plans, is the digitisation of banking. Most notably, the Chi-x BAT effect noted in our Stockholm launch meeting of the Nordic Financial…

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The Future of SWIFT: a meeting with Gottfried Leibbrandt

Still busy in the Financial Services Club world with meetings in Stockholm, Vienna, Warsaw and London all in the past two weeks. The interesting theme of all these meetings, and those in our future plans, is the digitisation of banking. Most notably, the Chi-x BAT effect noted in our Stockholm launch meeting of the Nordic Financial…

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The Future of Money (in Denmark)

One of our partners at the Financial Services Club is CFIR, the Copenhagen Finance IT Region. CFIR is an EU-funded networking group in Denmark who produce research and events around the developments in Danish banking and payments. Over the past year, CFIR has worked with the Copenhagen Business School, IBM, Danske Bank, NETS, the Innovation…

The Future of Money (in Denmark)

One of our partners at the Financial Services Club is CFIR, the Copenhagen Finance IT Region. CFIR is an EU-funded networking group in Denmark who produce research and events around the developments in Danish banking and payments. Over the past year, CFIR has worked with the Copenhagen Business School, IBM, Danske Bank, NETS, the Innovation…

Do the issues at RBS show that Fred Goodwin’s era was 1000% incompetent?

I know that it’s getting nearer to Christmas and the party season has kicked in, but yes, I’m still here blogging about banking business. There were lots of headlines about the second major RBS payments glitch last week.  Here are just a few: RBS suffers IT glitch on Cyber Monday, New Zealand Herald-3 Dec 2013 RBS and Natwest customers…

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