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Santander the winners in account switchers

I blogged a bit already about account switching, and how customer lethargy meant that it wasn’t really happening.  Account switching rules came into force on 16th September, and the new rules mean that it takes just seven days to move accounts and all incoming and outgoing payments have to switch with the account automatically.  If there…

TNS November

Santander the winners in account switchers

I blogged a bit already about account switching, and how customer lethargy meant that it wasn’t really happening.  Account switching rules came into force on 16th September, and the new rules mean that it takes just seven days to move accounts and all incoming and outgoing payments have to switch with the account automatically.  If there…

TNS November

Crowdfunding and P2P lending comes of age

It's almost a decade since the first UK P2P Lender Zopa launched, back in April 2005. Today, I reckon the industry came of age as I received this letter in the post. This was a letter that came out of the blue effectively saying that Funding Circle is offering £200 million of new funding to…

Funding circle

The (Nordic) Future of Trading

We had our first meeting of the Financial Services Club Nordic Region last week at the British Embassy in Stockholm. Attended by around 70 senior figures from the financial markets across the region, we discussed the changes and implications of change in European investment markets, with a focus upon the processes involved in pre- and…

PResentation

“If I had more time, I would have written a shorter regulation”

We were discussing rules and regulations recently, and how the rulebook screws up all meaning and intention of the things they are trying to enforce. It’s not the regulators fault, but the fault of too many cooks spoiling the broth. Take the examples we debated. The US constitution has 4,400 words. It is the oldest and…

“If I had more time, I would have written a shorter regulation”

We were discussing rules and regulations recently, and how the rulebook screws up all meaning and intention of the things they are trying to enforce. It’s not the regulators fault, but the fault of too many cooks spoiling the broth. Take the examples we debated. The US constitution has 4,400 words. It is the oldest and…

Visa note the easiest fraud is to buy a Rolex

We had a very enjoyable and engaging dialogue with Peter Bayley, Executive Director of Fraud Management for Visa Europe at the Financial Services Club London last night. Peter spoke for over an hour in an interactive discussion about the role of Visa in managing fraud, who is accountable for losses, the impact of current and…

Visa note the easiest fraud is to buy a Rolex

We had a very enjoyable and engaging dialogue with Peter Bayley, Executive Director of Fraud Management for Visa Europe at the Financial Services Club London last night. Peter spoke for over an hour in an interactive discussion about the role of Visa in managing fraud, who is accountable for losses, the impact of current and…

It’s the customers fault if they get bad service

I hosted a meeting of a bank recently, where I just asked people to tell me what they felt were the biggest challenges for the bank in the future. We went round the table and, unsurprisingly, the discussion covered four key topics: regulations, technology, customers and changing the internal culture.  Surprisingly, the one thing that…

It’s the customers fault if they get bad service

I hosted a meeting of a bank recently, where I just asked people to tell me what they felt were the biggest challenges for the bank in the future. We went round the table and, unsurprisingly, the discussion covered four key topics: regulations, technology, customers and changing the internal culture.  Surprisingly, the one thing that…