Archive for: October, 2007
a non-active Finextra member | 03/10/2007 | 2700 views
During this week at Sibos I have seen the results of several surveys around SEPA. Most would imply that the industry is not only positively engaged, but will achieve full migration by 2012 at the latest.However, my private conversations with fellow European bankers would not support such optimism. During these I have learnt that there are expecte...
Tags: Payments, Wholesale banking
Navjeet Khosa - Finextra - London | 03/10/2007 | 3993 views | 1 comment
Around a thousand delegates got to the exhibition centre bright and early this morning to hear what is sure be the most inspiring speech of the conference given by Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit association.Negroponte, who is currently on leave from MIT where he was co-founder and director of the MI...
Tags: Sibos, Sibos
a non-active Finextra member | 03/10/2007 | 2040 views
Day 2 of the Swift conference in Boston was filled with meetings about SEPA and the PSD (for those of you outside Europe this is the Payment Services Directive, the new legislation to harmonise the payments environment across Europe).The good news is that nothing new was said, but perhaps this is also rather sad. Banks have been concentrating on pr...
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a non-active Finextra member | 02/10/2007 | 1975 views
I hope you all had a great day yesterday.I thought today I should muse a little around one of the themes from yesterday's opening plenary. I am sure that like me, many of you noticed the more relaxed style of presentations. This fitted well with the theme of SWIFT moving from operational excellence to customer intimacy.Working more closely wi...
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a non-active Finextra member | 01/10/2007 | 1783 views
Hi everyone,It's great to be back again for another year. I am sure most of you, like me, have spent the last few weeks in frantic preparation - arranging meetings, preparing presentations, briefings, speeches, press announcements and all the other things regarded as essential for a successful SIBOS.SIBOS is about communication and -- as every...
Tags: Payments, Wholesale banking
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