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As mentioned the other day, I will be at this year’s SWIFT Show SIBOS focused upon a dialogue around the Long Now. The aim is to find some big super-crunchy questions about the long view of banking and finance, and try to answer them. What sort of questions are we thinking about? Here are a…

OK, you’re all back from work and feeling the post-summertime holiday blues … what can I say? Not a lot. So, as it’s Tuesday and you’re probably pulling your hair out already. Breathe. Calm down. Now think about your company. Most of you probably work for a large business. An elephant of a company. So…

Set your alarms. Get up early. Celebrate a once in a century moment. Yes, tomorrow at six minutes past five or, to be more exact, at seven seconds past six minutes past five it will be: 05:06:07 on 8th September. Or, in other words: 05:06:07 08/09/10 [Sorry Americans, your day happened a month ago on…

I’ve used a video from Visa Europe to illustrate what real-time payments processing means in practice for a while now, and finally tracked it down on Brightcove: It’s a good video, tracking the journey of a payment from a Swedish bank customer using a mobile contactless phone in China. The payment travels through 32,000 of…

America has a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), thanks to the Dodd-Frank reforms. The CFPB is a bit like the FBI, but focused upon money. Who could possibly run the CFPB? They would need to be an Eliot Ness Untouchable sort of person. A big swinging heavyweight, who can shoot the baddies of the…

Strongbow Cider has just launched a new ad in the UK.  The original advert honours the workers who create value – such as the pork pie fillers of Melton Mowbray and the sofa deliverymen of the M4 corridor: The new one is slightly less complementary and is targeted at … bankers [click here for larger…