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Craig Ramsey

Reaching true differentiation

A broad range of activities - and not just cost cutting - must be adopted if a financial institution's market share is to be maintained and managed, and are imperative if market share is to grow. Cons...

16 Jun 2011
EBAday
Craig Ramsey

EBAday blog pt. 2: Innovate and cut costs

An ongoing squeeze on budgets, combined with unprecedented levels of external scrutiny of both operations and performance, has created a situation in which improving the cost base has become paramount...

15 Jun 2011
Craig Ramsey

EBAday blog pt. 1: wholesale payments innovation

With EBAday starting tomorrow in Madrid, I can't help thinking that one of the main topics of discuss will be around innovation. Whether it is bringing new products to market or offering existing serv...

14 Jun 2011
Craig Ramsey

IPS in review

As the IPS conference in London drew to a close yesterday one theme was coming through loud and clear: there are plenty of new payments methods emerging into the mainstream, such as mobile, and lots o...

25 Mar 2011
Craig Ramsey

Saying goodbye to the old...

I blogged earlier this week about the importance of payments and banks adding value for their corporate customers, which is being highlighted at IPS. Electronic payment volumes are still increasing an...

23 Mar 2011
Craig Ramsey

Will transaction banking please step forward?

The provision of payments is a fundamental function of banking, practically as old as money itself. But since the introduction of cheques more than 350 years ago, the payments landscape has been evolv...

22 Mar 2011
Craig Ramsey

Preparing for IPS

As we prepare for the IPS event in London, I am looking forward to the presentations and conference sessions, of course, but I think I am looking forward to the one-to-one discussions on the stand eve...

21 Mar 2011

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