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The Composable Bank

In tech history, it’s rarely a single hyped-up innovation that changes the game. Take the iPhone and its revolution of the smartphone market; the colour touch screen, power efficient processor, integrated phone, WiFi, Li-ion battery technology, internet browser and app store were all features singularly available in devices that predated the iPhon...

10 August 2016

Leon Rees

Blockchain - Not The Only Game In Town

Let’s get this out of the way. Blockchain is great. I’m in no doubt, that every part of our financial services industry, one day, will be simpler and more efficient because of Blockchain. It’s also encouraging to see banks and institutions putting plenty of wood behind the Blockchain arrow. Finally, we are waking up to the idea that Rationalisation...

15 February 2016

Leon Rees

Financial Markets 2.0 - Time To Get Match Fit

I'll be brief in setting the scene, because we've heard it all before; the last 5 years were all about taking cost, risk and leverage out of the Financial Markets business - the crash diet for the binge that was had in the 10 years before. The interesting question is, what does the next 5 years hold? In many ways, the next cycle is more challenging...

21 October 2014 /regulation

Leon Rees

Silicon Valley vs. Banking - No More Fog of War

We all know there's been a battle brewing for a while. Silicon Valley, with its innate ability to innovate around technology and build models for deepening customer relationships, has been squaring off against traditional Main Street banking, threatening a fight for a few years. The big banks aren't a pushover, they have balance sheet (but perhaps...

03 October 2014 /payments

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When Dinosaurs Roamed Canary Wharf

Looking at the evolution of vendor systems in financial markets is not dissimilar to how we view the times when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Back then (if you can say that about 140 million years ago), we had the ‘Cretaceous and Jurassic Periods’. In our own relatively short time-frame we’ve had the finance vendor system periods: the ‘Midas/IBIS Per...

15 October 2013

Leon Rees

The End of Capitalism Is Probably Not Nigh

Our recent Catalyst tweet about the current Obama Care – US default debate (If short term US Libor’s lower than Fed Funds (TED spread neg), in theory US govt default risk is greater than the banks) has set me thinking. According to my Catalyst colleague and leading risk expert Christian Lee, in the 5 years leading up to 2007, life as a risk manag...

11 October 2013 /regulation

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