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BAI Retail Delivery, Orlando

Flying out to the USofA tomorrow to host a group of international CxO’s from European and Asian banks at the BAI Retail Delivery Conference and Exhibition.  The BAI Show is the biggest Expo for Retail Banking in the world, with over 5,000 attendees and  Colin Powell as keynote.  So you know what I’m going to…

1802 Quote about Banks from Jefferson

A mate of mine sent me this quote from Thomas Jefferson, written in1802: "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake…

1802 Quote about Banks from Jefferson

A mate of mine sent me this quote from Thomas Jefferson, written in1802: "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake…

1802 Quote about Banks from Jefferson

A mate of mine sent me this quote from Thomas Jefferson, written in1802: "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake…

1802 Quote about Banks from Jefferson

A mate of mine sent me this quote from Thomas Jefferson, written in1802: "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake…

The battering of the London Stock Exchange

I’ve been watching MiFID’s (the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive) progress in the background over recent months. I say, in the background, because there’s been so much stuff going on in the stock markets after Lehman Brothers that it was not something I felt made the frontground. Until now. The reason to bring it up…

You don’t have to be big to rule my world …

As I wrote the last two blogs about ‘average being good enough’ and large global banks , I realised that there was a link between the two.The link is that HSBC, Citi, Deutsche and more, are all aiming to provide a single, global platform – One Bank – with consistent, global delivery to all bank,…