I went to a Policy Review Summit yesterday, focused upon rebuilding trust in the banking system. We’ve had a few of these meetings at the Financial Services Club, and have two more in May, and the discussion usually comes around to a number of core themes: customers trust their bank accounts to be safe, secure…
There are many places you can look to find leadership in the FinTech community. One of the most reliable sources is IDC’s annual FinTech100 listing if you want to find the leaders in finance and technology. The 2012 listing confirms FIS in top spot again with TCS, First Data and Cognizant all rising up the…
I’ve been involved with Anthemis Group for some time, particularly liaising with Uday and Sean at innotribe. I’ve also known John Chaplin for quite a while, and so I was gratified to see that John’s firm Ixaris teamed up with Anthemis to produce this year’s Payments Innovation Jury Report. The Report is a biannual production that captures…
I’ve been involved with Anthemis Group for some time, particularly liaising with Uday and Sean at innotribe. I’ve also known John Chaplin for quite a while, and so I was gratified to see that John’s firm Ixaris teamed up with Anthemis to produce this year’s Payments Innovation Jury Report. The Report is a biannual production that captures…
Maybe it’s just me, but looking through the announcements of the three major regulatory changes the new authorities have introduced, I think they’re a bit nuts. On the one hand, they are increasing capital requirements for existing banks to avoid future shocks: Major UK banks must raise a total of £25bn in extra capital by the end…
Maybe it’s just me, but looking through the announcements of the three major regulatory changes the new authorities have introduced, I think they’re a bit nuts. On the one hand, they are increasing capital requirements for existing banks to avoid future shocks: Major UK banks must raise a total of £25bn in extra capital by the end…
I was sitting through a vendor presentation … … when a slide popped up titled: industry pain points. It was an interesting slide about the banking industry’s challenges with technology. The slide was divided into four sections, the first of which talked about the challenges of managing technology effectively. The issues here relate to: increasing…
I was sitting through a vendor presentation … … when a slide popped up titled: industry pain points. It was an interesting slide about the banking industry’s challenges with technology. The slide was divided into four sections, the first of which talked about the challenges of managing technology effectively. The issues here relate to: increasing…
I had a dinner recently where we debated the relevance of real-time in banking. It was intriguing with the retail bankers saying that it is a hygiene factor now to offer real-time as consumers expect and demand it, whilst the corporate bankers were saying that real-time is less relevant for them as customers may want…
I had a dinner recently where we debated the relevance of real-time in banking. It was intriguing with the retail bankers saying that it is a hygiene factor now to offer real-time as consumers expect and demand it, whilst the corporate bankers were saying that real-time is less relevant for them as customers may want…
