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How many emails do you get every day?

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…

How many emails do you get every day?

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…

Creating an agile, designer IT Shop from a CIO who knows how

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…

World of rupees

Creating an agile, designer IT Shop from a CIO who knows how

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…

World of rupees

Banks are just data vaults

There have been several themes I’ve explored on the blog lately that are the foundations of my latest presentations: Mobile is irrelevant, it’s the behaviours that are key Money is meaningless, it’s the data that is important Capitalism is dead, we are now ruled by social capitalism  Privacy has gone and security is our greatest…

Banks are just data vaults

There have been several themes I’ve explored on the blog lately that are the foundations of my latest presentations: Mobile is irrelevant, it’s the behaviours that are key Money is meaningless, it’s the data that is important Capitalism is dead, we are now ruled by social capitalism  Privacy has gone and security is our greatest…

The latest stats on Bitcoin

I’ve written a lot about Bitcoin over the last year: Is Bitcoin the future of money … or are we smoking dope?  (October 2011) Bitcoin: immersive or subversive? (January 2012) You should take Bitcoin seriously (September 2012) A new currency payment system is about to explode (February 2013) But had a sanity check when looking…

Bitcoin tx per day

Mobile’s time has come

It’s the Mobile World Congress week this week, so everyone’s talking about mobile. In our space, the big announcements came from MasterCard and Visa. MasterCard launched a digital wallet in a joint venture with mFoundry, whilst Visa announced an NFC partnership with Samsung. MasterCard’s digital wallet is called MasterPass.  In effect, it is the launch of…

PayPal mobile

Mobile’s time has come

It’s the Mobile World Congress week this week, so everyone’s talking about mobile. In our space, the big announcements came from MasterCard and Visa. MasterCard launched a digital wallet in a joint venture with mFoundry, whilst Visa announced an NFC partnership with Samsung. MasterCard’s digital wallet is called MasterPass.  In effect, it is the launch of…

PayPal mobile

A new currency payment system is about to explode

Before leaving the subject of , personalisation and virtualisation, there’s one last area that is worth delving into. This one came up when I was working on my latest iteration of the way in which money is evolving, and I have the firm belief that the exchange of value digitally will be as, if not…

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