Feeling well rested, I arrive at the Toronto convention centre this morning bright eyed and bushy tailed, for the rehearsal for the innotribe. Innotribe is the main stream I’m involved with this year, as ‘professional troublemaker’. We’re rehearsing for the opening session here with mates from all over the world, although I notice a predominance…
Another year, another SIBOS. Same sh*t, different day. SSDD for short. No, it’s not an insult, but this is my nth SIBOS and we’re here talking about the same old stuff: regulations, transactions, payments infrastructures, the role of SWIFT, the future of the industry, innovation and, oh yes, risk. Risk. For years, we have talked…
I attended a great conference in Copenhagen this week – Finans IT-Dagen. Didn’t understand much of it, as the majority of presentations were delivered in the Danish language which is understandable being a Danish conference, but I did get the gist of the content from the slideware, much of which was in English. A presentation…
I've been invited to SIBOS this year to be a “professional challenger” in the innotribe stream. I interpret this as being a “professional troublemaker”, which I’m very good at, but they reinterpreted this to the more acceptable terminology to get the management team buy-in. No worries. By now, if you’ve been to SIBOS before you should know…
I've been invited to SIBOS this year to be a “professional challenger” in the innotribe stream. I interpret this as being a “professional troublemaker”, which I’m very good at, but they reinterpreted this to the more acceptable terminology to get the management team buy-in. No worries. By now, if you’ve been to SIBOS before you should know…
My last blog about Iceland for the moment, but a worthy one. In Reykjavik, a city of 120,000 people (200,000 in the Greater Reykjavik region). By comparison, this is the size of Watford, the UK’s 59th largest town, or Dudley (26th) if you use the larger figure. On the harbour front in Reykjavik, they have…
