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Alan Goodrich

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Will UK Banks Get the X-Factor? It's the Same Difference!

What is it that keeps the excruciatingly happy brother and sister act of Sean and Sarah, Same Difference, out of the bottom two each week? My theory is very simple – they have understood what their customers (public voters) want... Will they win the whole competition? Probably not – but in many ways they have already won and have beaten some seriou...

12 November 2007 /payments SEPA and European Payments

Smarter Than A Ten Year Old?

Sorry, this is not a blog discussing the new TV series, but it hopefully will hold your attention at least as long as the programme makers hope their latest show will. Much is being written and discussed about innovation in financial services with, it seems, organisations employing an increasing number of people with the remit to innovate. Any of y...

07 November 2007 /payments /regulation Trends in Financial Services

Can You Have Your Corporate Cake and Eat It?

The subject of “Innovation in Financial Services” seems to highlight a real and present danger that many senior bankers are struggling with... i.e. how to achieve the “plumbing” and innovate simultaneously, in particular around the corporate financial supply chain... Did you make it to SIBOS this year? Well, the good news was that SIBOS focused a ...

05 November 2007 /payments /sibos Financial Supply Chain

The Distribution Dilemma

Hmmm... I wondered whether it was worth blogging about anything other than MiFID this week... but then decided that perhaps someone might want to read about something else..? Anyway, I finished my previous blog on the funds distribution topic with Tim Keaney’s (co-CEO at BNY Mellon Asset Servicing) statement at SIBOS that “more than 80% of the tra...

01 November 2007 /sibos Trends in Financial Services

How Fickle We Are With Funds

No, I’m not suggesting we are careless or eclectic with our money! Or, are we sometimes – in a way..? I was part of the packed audience in Room 210 at one of the opening sessions, on the Monday morning of SIBOS this year, entitled: The 21st century funds industry: What are the critical success factors? The assembled panel of experts was worthy of t...

26 October 2007 /sibos Trends in Financial Services

Blinded by Blue Mist?

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Ann Cairns, at the Financial Services Club, giving her personal perspective on "Managing technology change in the financial services industry". For those who don't know, Ann is CEO of Transaction Banking at ABN Amro, having joined ABN Amro in 2002, after 15 years at Citigroup wor...

25 October 2007 /payments Financial Supply Chain