10 Interesting Disruptive Innovation Insights from JP Morgan 3

At Sibos the other week there was an interesting Big Issue Debate: “Disruptive innovations transforming the financial services”. The disruptive innovation debate featured Eileen Burbidge (UK Treasury Fintech envoy), Eric Pradier (Hewlett Packard VP) and Sanoke Viswanathan (Chief Administrative Officer and interim CIO for the corporate and investment bank at JP Morgan). The panel gave some insightful ...

15 Unmissable Financial Services Graphics by Innotribe

15 Unmissable Financial Services Graphics by Innotribe
Probably THE most fascinating stream at Sibos last week was everything happening at Innotribe! The folks from Innotribe covered all things innovation related, and the sessions were both informative and thought provoking. From the usual themes such as blockchain, disruption, fintech through to a musical jacket. It was simply brilliant. The Innotribe team around their ...

The Top Payments News Stories in September, 2016

Summer already feels like it was an age ago! Its a bumper payments news edition with plenty of interesting cybersecurity, bank, fintech and SWIFT related stories. Check out the following top payments news stories for September 2016: 1. Payments News – Cyber Security MoneySavingExpert.com issues contactless card fraud warning New York governor Cuomo announces proposal ...

4 Epic Global Payments Trends Highlighted by BCG & Google 1

I was reading through some old Payments News stories recently and stumbled across the Google-BCG study into the growth of digital payments in India by 2020. Its a fascinating report focusing on India, but what i also found interesting were details of what both Google and BCG revealed as four global payments trends, or rather ...

Sibos 2016 – A Day by Day Guide for Payments Peeps 1

For those lucky enough to attend Sibos 2016 in Geneva, i have outlined what i think are some pretty interesting sessions over the 4 day SWIFT conference. But before diving into the details, i would recommend checking out my Sibos Infographic and 5 Tips For Newbies posts! It is worth noting the: Sibos conference is ...

7 Tasty Graphics from the Next Money Fintech Conference

7 Tasty Graphics from the Next Money Fintech Conference
Before i get into the details of the Next Money fintech conference. I would like to apologise for not blogging/posting very much recently. Its been a crazy month. But don’t worry, I’m back! I’m catching up on all of the news worthy payments stuff that has been going on the last couple of weeks. One ...

9 Things I Learnt & You Might Too About PGP Encryption 2

The Edward Snowden revelations have played a significant role in raising the profile of encrpytion over the last few years. That debate will clearly continue to run, but with heightened cyber security threats the use of encryption is something very relevant for corporates – particularly where payments are concerned. And it is with payment security in ...

Are you bamboozled by Agile Methodology? 1

I keep reading and hearing about agile methodology, agile software development, agile project management, scrum methodology, waterfalls…. and sometimes wonder wtf is going on. These terms sound great, but you can often get lost in the terminology and yet this is the time to know exactly what these terms are all about. Many corporates are ...

7 Ripple Reasons Why the SWIFT GPII Ain’t Good Enough 14

I’m trying to get to grips with all things payments and blockchain related at the moment, and this quest has sent me in various directions. One emerging Fintech company thats fast occupying both the payments and distributed ledger space is Ripple. More on them later. But for now, i wanted to cover a couple of ...

7 Things Harvard Taught Me About Blockchain Technology 1

I recently read the Harvard Business Review article “The Impact of the Blockchain Technology Goes Beyond Financial Services“. There is a buzz in financial services around blockchain technology, and the impact it will have on the industry. So this article caught my eye since it was talking about blockchain technology outside of finance, and since it ...