In a post that I’m sure will get a response from some folks (Jeffry?), February’s Banker Magazine (I write a monthly column for them) dropped onto my doorstep this morning with the front page: "The World’s Top 500 Banking Brands". You might be surprised that there are 500 banks around these days but this is…
In a post that I’m sure will get a response from some folks (Jeffry?), February’s Banker Magazine (I write a monthly column for them) dropped onto my doorstep this morning with the front page: "The World’s Top 500 Banking Brands". You might be surprised that there are 500 banks around these days but this is…
In a post that I’m sure will get a response from some folks (Jeffry?), February’s Banker Magazine (I write a monthly column for them) dropped onto my doorstep this morning with the front page: "The World’s Top 500 Banking Brands". You might be surprised that there are 500 banks around these days but this is…
The Vatican launched their new YouTube channel today. I stumbled across it because it came up as the Papal Channel, and I misread it as PayPal (only joking :-) The main video really does illustrate the march of technology well and Pope Benedict XVI is quoted at the end stating that: "New technologies have an…
I've had a few comments on the fact that I keep blogging about the business of banking rather than my normal focal points: technologies, regulations, payments and my real passion which is the future of banking. The thing is that the future of banking, right now, is all about: "is there one?" Of course there…
I've had a few comments on the fact that I keep blogging about the business of banking rather than my normal focal points: technologies, regulations, payments and my real passion which is the future of banking. The thing is that the future of banking, right now, is all about: "is there one?" Of course there…
I've had a few comments on the fact that I keep blogging about the business of banking rather than my normal focal points: technologies, regulations, payments and my real passion which is the future of banking. The thing is that the future of banking, right now, is all about: "is there one?" Of course there…
We had a fun evening at the FSClub last night, debating whether bankers were more polluting than the steel plants of China. How polluting are the steel plants of China you might ask? Not as much as cows although, according to an issue of Science magazine last year, if Chinese steel plants continue as they…
My blog below explains why banking will be free, and this can be illustrated well by the events of yesterday as the inauguration of Barack Obama resulted in a range of technology disruptions. For example, CNET reports that various web services were breaking all records: Akamai estimated that 5.4 million visitors per minute were flocking…
Some people cannot understand why I blog everyday and so frequently, especially as it's free. They actually think I should charge something for this stuff! Sure, it would be nice, but I learned a long time ago that being free is far more effective than charging for everything. In particular, I spent some time with…
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