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I was a guest last week to mark the opening of the Australian Liquidity Centre which is not, as you might think, the latest trendy Sydney nightspot. Instead it’s the name chosen by ASX for its impres...
A recent report from KPMG assesses how the global financial community is responding to the adoption of mobile banking and mobile payments. The report is overwhelmingly positive and highlights some int...
I just received confirmation that the world is moving very, very fast. So fast that if you don't say, do or start what you have in mind, someone else will do it for you .... and you'll be left wihtout...
As we have seen, contactless payments are beginning to move into the mainstream. As my colleague Mark Carpenter has previously noted in a blog, support for contactless transactions is moving out from ...
I've been thinking a lot recently about the different pressures that banks in Europe are facing. It's a tricky business working in payments in a bank today - trying to decide on strategy and how the b...
Regular readers of this blog, know that I'm a keen reader of the ONS monthly retail sales figures (pdf) – well someone has to do it. I've been sitting there with the champagne on ice, ready to celebr...
It is my forecast that in the future you will not be able to find a job in your bank or financial institution because more and more ‘things’ will be free. Crazy, I know, but hear me out. We are livin...
I think that we all knew that Google was really, in revenue terms, a media company (they derive 97% of their revenue from advertising), but there's some fascinating new data about this in some new res...
This week Bruno Koch (Billentis) informed me that he is currently consulting a public sector organisation which has to implement equal treatment (ET) between paper and electronic invoices by the end o...
How will global regulatory changes impact UK financial institutions? This was the very question we asked at a recent Logica event on global regulatory reporting, held at the British Bankers’ Associati...
Gartner research last year stated that IT service firms need to leverage automation tools offered by software vendors, as well as develop their own tools. What role can automation play in the transiti...
OK. If you have been following my blogs... You will know that I am investing my time and energies into person to person lending. With a wave of person to person lending start ups over the last few y...