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The final keynote at SIBOS 2012 is Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and Chairman of the Yunus Centre. I blogged a little about him earlier, but here’s the full speech: I got into banking by accident and, at the beginning, had no idea what I was doing.  I was a teacher.  I got forced…

The final innotribe session is underway,  playing to a really packed crowd. It's no wonder as this is the startup challenge and innovator pitches, showcasing the work of the 15 most innovative software companies providing solutions to banks in 2012. That's 15 companies selected from around 450 that applied, so these guys really are the crème…

There are few people you meet in life that are inspirational, but I’ve been lucky enough to meet a few.  I won’t namedrop, as most of them you won’t know, but many of the most inspirational business people I’ve met are in the innotribe stream. Today, we were all a little starstruck therefore when even…

So, at the end of a very long third day of SIBOS, I attended the final session on mobile payments which began with Laurent Desmangles of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) presenting some slides on their view of how the mobile space is developing. Laurent quite rightly made the assertion that cards would still be…

As mentioned, I attended two great sessions, so here’s the next one: can transaction banking survive in this world of regulation? A good theme and one that I was really keen to hear about, particularly as David Wright was part of the panel.  David was instrumental in the European theatre during the development of MiFID…

I went to a couple of really good sessions this morning, which I will post separately as they fall under different topic structures. The first was all about what the European financial market infrastructure will be like in 2020. Organised by the Eurosystem of central banks, the session discussed the future European financial market infrastructure…

So SIBOS Day Two evening was a fun one. Dinner with VocaLink saw a lively discussion about the future of mobile and other retail transaction processing launched by a speech about e- and m- wallets from Mikato Shibata of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and ably chaired by Brian Caplen, editor in chief of The Banker…

After two big sessions in the main conference, it was time to retire to the exhibit hall and see some other stuff, so I spent the afternoon networking, which is what SIBOS is all about. First, was a short break in the innotribe where Allevo and a few other folks presented ideas about future economic…

Running from cyberwars to a radically different session on the Asian economies in the plenary room. The session had the grand title: How seismic is this shift? A discussion about the implications of emerging growth markets, and was chaired by Dominic Hobson (or Doominic as he’s now named) of Global Custodian magazine with three key…