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54 Hedge Fund managers join the 1,000 richest people in Britain

There are 54 hedge fund managers among the Richest 1,000 people in Britain in The Sunday Times Rich List 2012, to be published this weekend. THE 20 RICHEST HEDGE FUND MILLIONAIRES   Name Hedge fund 2012 wealth 2011 wealth 1 Alan Howard Brevan Howard £1,400m £975m 2 Robert Miller Sail Advisors £955m £1,000m 3 David…

Let the mobile wallet wars begin

I don’t normally cover press releases, but this one is a goodie as it’s announcing a new mobile wallet and, thanks to this chart (doubleclick chart to enlarge): Let the wallet wars begin. Here’s what the press release says: O2 today announced the launch of O2 Wallet – a seamless and secure digital wallet service…

O2 wallet1

Let the mobile wallet wars begin

I don’t normally cover press releases, but this one is a goodie as it’s announcing a new mobile wallet and, thanks to this chart (doubleclick chart to enlarge): Let the wallet wars begin. Here’s what the press release says: O2 today announced the launch of O2 Wallet – a seamless and secure digital wallet service…

O2 wallet1

Of all the world’s banks, UK banks must be the most anti-social

I was asked to talk about the role of social media in banking this week, and was a little irritated by the question. Why? Because social media has a very strong role in some banks. Take any large American bank and they’re blogging, twittering, facebooking and more (Wells Fargo, Citi and Bank of America being good examples)….

Lloyds

Of all the world’s banks, UK banks must be the most anti-social

I was asked to talk about the role of social media in banking this week, and was a little irritated by the question. Why? Because social media has a very strong role in some banks. Take any large American bank and they’re blogging, twittering, facebooking and more (Wells Fargo, Citi and Bank of America being good examples)….

Lloyds

The crowdsourced bank

I’ve been thinking about how to build a bank for a while, and have been partly inspired by the examples of (bank)simple and movenbank. Both new bank startups began with a call to interested commentators to give their two-penneth worth of input about how a bank should operate.  I never saw results of this input…

Firstdirectlab

MEFTEC Dubai, the Asian Banker and Innotribe Bangkok

For those who are interested, there are a few major conferences coming up this month. I'll be chairing MEFTEC in Dubai on April 25th and 26th; at the same time, the Asian Banker's Summit takes place in Bangkok from April 25th to 27th, and includes my friends from SWIFT, who are running Innotribe Bangkok on…

MEFTEC Dubai, the Asian Banker and Innotribe Bangkok

For those who are interested, there are a few major conferences coming up this month. I'll be chairing MEFTEC in Dubai on April 25th and 26th; at the same time, the Asian Banker's Summit takes place in Bangkok from April 25th to 27th, and includes my friends from SWIFT, who are running Innotribe Bangkok on…

Three Principles for a New Wall Street

The second presentation that attracted my attention at TEDx Wall Street last week was Don Tapscott’s. Don is the author of many books, although his best known work is probably coining the phrase Wikinomics (note, this is now Marcowikinomics). His thesis is all about how the internet is changing our world fundamentally, and that crowdsourcing is…

Tapscott

Three Principles for a New Wall Street

The second presentation that attracted my attention at TEDx Wall Street last week was Don Tapscott’s. Don is the author of many books, although his best known work is probably coining the phrase Wikinomics (note, this is now Marcowikinomics). His thesis is all about how the internet is changing our world fundamentally, and that crowdsourcing is…

Tapscott