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The day started with an early breakfast – the orange juice was vital for everyone who has been living on the standard Sibos diet of canapés and alcohol and who might be frightened of getting scurvy! ...
The past 35 years have seen extraordinary changes within financial services. The advent of powerful, low-cost information and communication technologies has dramatically altered not only the means by ...
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 lat...
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 cha...
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 pa...
So whilst everyone was making final preparations for SIBOS this past weekend, I was in Dubai keeping good on a long standing promise to visit a friend. If you haven’t been to Dubai before, I’d stron...
Lunchtime is always a good time to get a sense of how attendees are reacting to the Sibos content. Interesting conversations about RMA, with a feeling that the aim is to stop firms communicating with...
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 relaxe...
In case you don’t know, the Boston Conference and Exhibition Center is located in an urban regeneration area in Boston docks within sight of the central business district. The one topic which seems t...
As you probably can’t have escaped being told, Sibos is in Boston in the 3-year old Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. This year the conference has the potential of robust dialogue between betwe...
As always at Sibos, you meet those people that either you haven’t had chance to make appointments with but could have, and those people you know from the other side of the world and couldn’t have met ...
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, briefing...