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The elephant in the room

 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…

#futureofmoney video #2

Gabriel Shalom, who made the fantastic future of money film with Venessa Meimis, just sent me his videoblog from SIBOS.   It's fantastic too, so here it is: Future of Money Videoblog: Episode 5 from KS12 on Vimeo. And for the full version of their thoughts, checkout the emergence collective.

And now, the end is here …

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…

Using whales to fish for minnows

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…

China and India or …

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…

And SWIFT’s next big innovation will be …

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…

Innotribe

She popped her clogs

It’s the last proper day of SIBOS and the dialogue has been good. Interestingly, I finished yesterday with a trip out to a rural restaurant that took me past windmills and canals …   … so I finally saw a bit of Holland for proper. It did amuse me that when I arrived at the…

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Small is less than $5 billion

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…

“Asian banks are going to head West”

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…

Jeremy

Chinese Banking and the 200,000 1RMB notes

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…

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