A short blog today, but a challenging one. I was talking about Movenbank with a colleague and mentioned that it was going to be the world’s first paperless, cardless bank. They looked at me quizzically. Paperless? Cardless? What do you mean? I said “no cash, no card, just mobile contactless”. They thought I was off…
I’m working on a technology in banking conference with a client that’s had me chair their meetings for some years now. As they discussed the program for this year, they asked me for the theme and what sort of topics we need to cover. I immediately thought we should look at information leverage through Big…
I’ve been a fan of TED for some time. Most of you should be familiar with TED but, just in case you’re not, it’s the world’s largest open sourced educational campus created by Richard Wurman in 1984. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design, and has gained its reputation as the leading source of inspiration…
It’s bonus season and, as in previous years*, the media and politicians stir up a row over rich pickings and knighthoods. Some say there’s even a “whiff of the lynch mob” in the air. Certainly in the UK it’s getting ridiculous as this week we saw the hysterical media coverage over Stephen Hester getting a million…
It’s bonus season and, as in previous years*, the media and politicians stir up a row over rich pickings and knighthoods. Some say there’s even a “whiff of the lynch mob” in the air. Certainly in the UK it’s getting ridiculous as this week we saw the hysterical media coverage over Stephen Hester getting a million…
I attended an interesting lecture last night from an economic legend: Professor Amartya Sen of Harvard University. If you haven’t heard of him, he’s known as the Mother Teresa of economics in his native India, and has spent a lifetime fighting poverty with analysis rather than activism. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in…
I attended an interesting lecture last night from an economic legend: Professor Amartya Sen of Harvard University. If you haven’t heard of him, he’s known as the Mother Teresa of economics in his native India, and has spent a lifetime fighting poverty with analysis rather than activism. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in…
Over the weekend, Standard & Poor’s downgraded nine Eurzone countries, calling into question the viability of the Eurozone for the long term. France was downgraded to a level not seen since 1975. Italy is now considered the same credit risk as Kazakhstan. Portugal’s credit has now reached junk status. “This is not a catastrophe”, the…
