There is a sea change taking place in finance, the economy and the world, thanks to digitalisation and technology. In banking, I’m not sure that it’s seen, or that it is seen visibly, but the sea change is being enabled by seven key technology components right now: cloud and big data in the back office;…
Although I said yesterday that I struggle with banks being disintermediated, I did leave out one critical point. Many things have appeared in the banking world during my time, and been tried and dismissed. Biometrics has been long discussed for authentication, but is yet to be seen. The end of the branch has been long…
Although I said yesterday that I struggle with banks being disintermediated, I did leave out one critical point. Many things have appeared in the banking world during my time, and been tried and dismissed. Biometrics has been long discussed for authentication, but is yet to be seen. The end of the branch has been long…
Building on yesterday’s theme, I struggle when people (including myself, I must admit) shout out that banks are going to be disintermediated, I struggle when someone starts shouting out that Google, Facebook or Amazon will replace banks. I struggle even more when rebels state that bitcoin is the future and down with the capitalists. Maybe…
Building on yesterday’s theme, I struggle when people (including myself, I must admit) shout out that banks are going to be disintermediated, I struggle when someone starts shouting out that Google, Facebook or Amazon will replace banks. I struggle even more when rebels state that bitcoin is the future and down with the capitalists. Maybe…
Forrester just produced a report about why Google will not become a bank, but will focus upon leveraging their information services around transactions. It’s an interesting viewpoint and one I agree with. As blogged here regularly, Google is unlikely to ever become a bank. They would lose too many friends. But Google will become an…
Forrester just produced a report about why Google will not become a bank, but will focus upon leveraging their information services around transactions. It’s an interesting viewpoint and one I agree with. As blogged here regularly, Google is unlikely to ever become a bank. They would lose too many friends. But Google will become an…
