Chris Skinner's blog Shaping the future of finance

I’m in Miami at this cash and treasury show, and chaired a panel focused upon SWIFT and why is SWIFT relevant to corporates? Here’s the blurb about the panel: “SWIFT – It May Be Time You Connected “Companies can use the SWIFT network for a …

Under our radar, as it is in the pensions markets, but something very noteworthy occurred last week.  The FSA attacked the outsourcing and Third Party Administration Markets by fining Liberata over a million dollars for failures in its systems and controls for managing and issuing …

Under our radar, as it is in the pensions markets, but something very noteworthy occurred last week.  The FSA attacked the outsourcing and Third Party Administration Markets by fining Liberata over a million dollars for failures in its systems and controls for managing and issuing …

Matthew Bishop, the American business editor of the Economist, talked through his views on the credit crunch at a conference I am attending in Miami. He began by asking the audience if they thought the USA was in recession. This was using voting devices. Y’know …

Reading today’s news headlines, you might think that the markets had exploded or imploded, dependent upon where you sit. Apparently, hundreds of new exchanges and multilateral trading facilities have started up and are winning business away from traditional exchanges. But the question top of my …

Reading today’s news headlines, you might think that the markets had exploded or imploded, dependent upon where you sit. Apparently, hundreds of new exchanges and multilateral trading facilities have started up and are winning business away from traditional exchanges. But the question top of my …

The Global Ivy League is the scenario of truth for the future banking markets. More globally harmonised regulation creates less innovation, but more security, amongst the major league players who we feel we can trust. Or rather, our politicians feel we should trust. Read more …

The Global Ivy League is the scenario of truth for the future banking markets. More globally harmonised regulation creates less innovation, but more security, amongst the major league players who we feel we can trust. Or rather, our politicians feel we should trust. Read more …

The Global Ivy League is the scenario of truth for the future banking markets. More globally harmonised regulation creates less innovation, but more security, amongst the major league players who we feel we can trust. Or rather, our politicians feel we should trust. Read more …

I saw this blog from a VC in NYC today.  It’s entitled: "We Need A New Path To Liquidity" and I had to read that as I thought it would be all about how to trade out of recession or something.  But no.  It’s about …

According to various reports, the seven finance ministers of the G7 have asked to meet leaders of the ten largest banks, including Citigroup and Mizuho Corporate Bank, tomorrow.  The aim is to create a strategy to deal with the widening panic over the global credit …

According to various reports, the seven finance ministers of the G7 have asked to meet leaders of the ten largest banks, including Citigroup and Mizuho Corporate Bank, tomorrow.  The aim is to create a strategy to deal with the widening panic over the global credit …

Not really, but there is a lot more debate about its pro’s and con’s amongst the tech community, with at least some saying it is not that bad.  Not many, but a few. I reckon that 95% of Vista users have not had the issues …

Not really, but there is a lot more debate about its pro’s and con’s amongst the tech community, with at least some saying it is not that bad.  Not many, but a few. I reckon that 95% of Vista users have not had the issues …

Earlier this week I attended the launch of a new book, the Future of finance after SEPA. I edited this book and was asked to present a summary of the views provided by the contributors.  Bearing in mind that there are over thirty contributors to …

For those who haven’t noticed, I’ve recently started blogging on SWIFT’s community website.  Each day I will post something exclusively there that has my intellectual analysis – all of my IQ of 26 therefore – behind it.  Here’s what’s been blogged about so far: The …

For those who haven’t noticed, I’ve recently started blogging on SWIFT’s community website.  Each day I will post something exclusively there that has my intellectual analysis – all of my IQ of 26 therefore – behind it.  Here’s what’s been blogged about so far: The …

I have often said that tracking the future is normally demonstrated by tracking children’s behaviours.  Kids are excited about the future. They are desperately keen to rush headlong into the next week, month and year.  "I’m eight and three quarters""I’m twelve but think I look …

I have often said that tracking the future is normally demonstrated by tracking children’s behaviours.  Kids are excited about the future. They are desperately keen to rush headlong into the next week, month and year.  "I’m eight and three quarters""I’m twelve but think I look …

I have often said that tracking the future is normally demonstrated by tracking children’s behaviours.  Kids are excited about the future. They are desperately keen to rush headlong into the next week, month and year.  "I’m eight and three quarters""I’m twelve but think I look …

It’s a line that may become a classic, in a similar vein to Robert de Niro’s famous Are you looking at me? from the film Taxi Driver.    Are you chewing my cash?  Why would this line be even remotely notable? Well, there’s a sad …

It’s a line that may become a classic, in a similar vein to Robert de Niro’s famous Are you looking at me? from the film Taxi Driver.    Are you chewing my cash?  Why would this line be even remotely notable? Well, there’s a sad …

At SIBOS 2004 in Atlanta, Heidi Miller of JPMorgan delivered a keynote address that is still discussed to this day. This is because she asked four critical questions of us: Why do we make things so complicated for our clients? How can we help our customers become …

At SIBOS 2004 in Atlanta, Heidi Miller of JPMorgan delivered a keynote address that is still discussed to this day. This is because she asked four critical questions of us: Why do we make things so complicated for our clients? How can we help our customers become …

At SIBOS 2004 in Atlanta, Heidi Miller of JPMorgan delivered a keynote address that is still discussed to this day. This is because she asked four critical questions of us: Why do we make things so complicated for our clients? How can we help our customers become …

Further to my previous notes about Marketing in the Digital Age, this viral: seems to have worked well for Laptops Direct. Apparently, people are happy to have company logo’s tattoed onto their foreheads.  Luckily, an April Fool … although 1% of those who saw this …

Further to my previous notes about Marketing in the Digital Age, this viral: seems to have worked well for Laptops Direct. Apparently, people are happy to have company logo’s tattoed onto their foreheads.  Luckily, an April Fool … although 1% of those who saw this …

Nothing to do with banking and technology you may say, but this actually has everything to do with banking and technology as it is all about Marketing in the Digital Age and the way we use new channels. To start with, I was intrigued to …