Let me tell you what this won’t be. A play-by-play of the conference. It won’t be that for several reasons including the fact that I missed a few general sessions due to meetings and the occasional hospital stay so I can’t comment on the full content. What I can […]
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Disclaimer: If you started reading this in the hopes that it will be chock full of figures to sustain my point, you may want to stop now. This is a ranty personal view and if you choose to read it, you’ll have to source your own reports to prove or […]
Blockchain is not the magic bullet banking needs. There, I said it. We can stop pretending it is now. In fact, Blockchain doesn’t matter. Neither does Hadoop, Watson, AI or robot advisory or any other of the buzz words depicting technology that investors swoon over these days. They all have […]
"We all understand that being a brand pays yet how many of the banks in Europe even think in terms of being a brand? I can only see three. Yes you read that right - THREE. "
Our industry is starting to suffer greatly from the incessant noise, the -some times purpose-built- confusion in terms and the lack of definitions so it's important we have it crystal clear what we DO we mean when we say FinTech because it oughtn't be muddy.
This is not a manifesto to eradicate the Stockholm Syndrome in Banking, it's a plea to develop the Lima one. Please admit you care even a little bit, Mr Banker....
If we take a step back and look at what has been happening over the past 2-3 years we have reasons to rejoice. We were but claiming -if vehemently- that banking as we know it will vanish like the records industry at Bar Camp Banks organised by the Dave Birchs […]