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And so this year's SIBOS begins here in Amsterdam, and I'm up bright and early for a 7:30 meeting which is 6:30 UK time … yawn! First main session of the day is a discussion of securities and market infrastructures with the folks who lead various clearing and settlement firms.  There's Phil Brown, Member of…

I was going to write another big piece on a big question that we’ll talk about at SIBOS this year – it’s a big banking tradeshow in Amsterdam from 25-29 October as most of you know – and then got this video from Mariela at SWIFT and it says most of what I would say…

So I’m out and about in the town of London again, and the first thing I’m asked about is teddy bears. Hedge fund manager’s teddy bears to be exact. It’s all to do with the bad behaviour of one Paul Greenwood and his colleague who defrauded people by doing a Bernie Madoff style Ponzi fund…

I received an email from my friends at American Banker the other day. They had just published a letter from a rather angry CEO of an American Community Bank. Community banks are like mutuals, cajas or sparkassens over here, and they exist for their members’ interests. With that in mind, I think we can all…

One of the big questions we want to focus upon during the Long Finance debates at SIBOS this year is: if payments are free, who pays? The discussion is all around the concept that payments have been so commoditised and disrupted that they are irrelevant as a source of value and revenue generation. There’s no…

Quite a few folks found it difficult to keep up with our bloggerblast with Matt Colebrook, CEO of First Direct last Friday. It was a blast, although a few folks found the conversation stream a bit garbled and confusing as there were at least seven people in the conversation. Furthermore, I think Matt was a…