I love that phrase: “the elephant in the room”. It just conjures up this image of everyone sitting and not realising there’s a great big grey beast with a trunk sitting behind their chair. Photo source: Venture Beat Of course, that’s the image it’s meant to conjure but what is the elephant in the room…
And so another SIBOS comes to an end. This year, I’m quite pleased as it’s been a challenging SIBOS. The challenge was getting to it, as the hotels were all over Amsterdam and the shuttle buses were about as reliable as a politician’s policies. No complaints however, as the agenda ticked all the boxes I…
So the final SIBOS session just finished with the excellent thoughts of Paul Saffo of Stanford University, and a co-found of the Long Now, at the closing plenary keynote. Paul covered lots of good stuff, and here’s an interpretative summary: We seem to be using ever more powerful technological tools in the pursuit of ever…
So, after a nice lunch, it’s into the session all about Asia, chaired by my mate Emmanuel Daniel of the Asian Banker, who was joined by panellists: N Chandrasekaran, CEO & MD, Tata Consultancy Services Dr Gerard Lyons, Chief Economist and Group Head of Global Research, Standard Chartered Bank Patel Rajnikant, CEO, Reliance Exchange Next…
The final innotribe piece just finished, with about 300 people watching six groups pitch their ideas to venture capitalists and bank decision-makers from the SWIFT board. If you’re unfamiliar with innotribe, it’s basically the innovation stream. Teams work through the week on new areas of interest to SWIFT, such as mobile telecommunications, cloud computing and…
So another day draws to a close, with the usual mixture of sessions and chats from how to get automation into the smaller securities houses to how to use social media in finance. Funnily enough, the latter was in a small “Community” room hidden miles away from the conference floor which, by the time I…
And so the first of the third day’s plenaries has just finished. This is one chaired by the ever so stately friend of the FSClub Jeremy Wilson, Chairman of the Global Councils for BAFT-IFSA and Vice Chairman of Barclays Bank. Jeremy was joined on stage by a panel comprising: Marco Bolgiani, Head of Global Transaction…
Well, a lot of heavy partying last night as SunGard, Clear2Pay, Experian Payments, VocaLink and more hosted fantastic receptions at prestigious locations such as the House of Bols and the Heineken Brewery. Of course, I only popped in to have a diet coke and a sausage … So, got up this afternoon and thought about…
