Technology

I was asked to join a panel discussion on social media during a recent conference. A social media masterclass, as it was called. Interesting. Sure, I’ve been blogging and tweeting and facebooking for as long as I can remember, but does that make me a master of social media? I don’t know, but here’s what…

I was asked to join a panel discussion on social media during a recent conference. A social media masterclass, as it was called. Interesting. Sure, I’ve been blogging and tweeting and facebooking for as long as I can remember, but does that make me a master of social media? I don’t know, but here’s what…

There’s an old saying that cropped up the other day in respect of Margaret Thatcher’s son, Mark. It was a joking reference by Margaret that her son was so clever he could sell “snow to eskimos or sand to Arabs” or, as one wag put it, arms to anyone. Anyways, it’s a message worth remembering as…

All the media has finally woken up to the Bitcoin phenomena when the value of Bitcoins rose from a steady $20 per coin to $266 last week … only to crash to $100 by the end of the week. What caused this? The general consensus is that the financial crisis in Cyprus, which led to…

One of the discussions I was having recently was around a future vision for banking, and the idea of branchless banking reared its ugly head again. As mentioned many times, I don’t believe in branchless banking in the future .. just less branches for banking. Anyways, this discussion veered in another direction that also rang…

One of the discussions I was having recently was around a future vision for banking, and the idea of branchless banking reared its ugly head again. As mentioned many times, I don’t believe in branchless banking in the future .. just less branches for banking. Anyways, this discussion veered in another direction that also rang…

I don’t always praise, but I will shower some praise on British Airways today.  Not for their service, flights, destinations or lounges, but for their inflight magazine Business Life.  It always inspires me a little as, each month, the BA Business Life magazine publishes a bunch of trivia facts that are useless, apart from giving…

I don’t always praise, but I will shower some praise on British Airways today.  Not for their service, flights, destinations or lounges, but for their inflight magazine Business Life.  It always inspires me a little as, each month, the BA Business Life magazine publishes a bunch of trivia facts that are useless, apart from giving…

Time to head home after a day in India at the launch of the new design centre for finance launched by Polaris Financial Technology in Chennai (Madras for the old folks out there). As you walk into the Design Centre, you are greeted by a map of the world … completely made out of Indian…

Time to head home after a day in India at the launch of the new design centre for finance launched by Polaris Financial Technology in Chennai (Madras for the old folks out there). As you walk into the Design Centre, you are greeted by a map of the world … completely made out of Indian…