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Elizabeth Lumley

Global FinTech Commentator

Girl, Disrupted

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05 Nov 2007

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The Chi-X Europe suitor - What are the odds?

Supposedly, my great-grandfather was a bookie at the dog tracks for the mafia in the US. We'll save that for when 'Who do you think you are?' comes calling. Anyway, I made a few calls and emails today to find out what the collective wisdom was for who will buy Chi-X Europe. So here is my unscientific odds on who will end up with the MTF. BATS - 100...

24 August 2010

FinTech in Atlanta hothouse - the Twitterview Transcript

Last week Finextra embarked on an unusual Twitterview. Instead of a mostly linear stream of Q&As with one or two people, we decided to moderate a discussion, or Twitter-chat, with a group of start-ups, consultants and advocates who represented the city of Atlanta, Georgia in the US. It seems Atlanta has been a hotbed of banking innovation sin...

23 August 2010 /payments Social Banks

Where can you find a hell of a lot of FinTech engineers?

The Finextra Twitterview - Atlanta FinTech Universe When: Augist 18th, 2010, 10:00 EDT (15:00 BST) Where: Follow @Finextra and @kpetralia, @simEngine, @johnbhayes, @SBatTTV, @atlantapayments, @steve_atl, @MelanieBrandt, @DCoxATL and @tjsweeney. Hashtag: #finxlive As some of you know, I'm on Twitter (@LizLum). One day, @tjsweeney (Tim Sweeney, ...

16 August 2010 /payments /retail Social Banks

What do you want from us? ... at Sibos

As the Summer sings its siren song, our thoughts at Finextra HQ inevitably flow to Sibos (this year in Amsterdam!). While I'm anticipating my first Sibos where I'm not overwhelmingly jet lagged for the entire week, we at Finextra are busy deciding how to deck out our very first stand (Stand number A519). Seasoned conference attendees are well verse...

13 August 2010 /sibos Finextra@Sibos

Would you give your money to the Wizard of Oz?

I've been on holiday for the past few weeks. But even as I sat on the beach, building sand castles with my five-year old, I still lent a thought to the world of financial services. An old friend in New York sent me a message over Facebook asking if I knew anything about SmartyPig or banksimple, asking along the lines 'are these real banks?' She hol...

10 August 2010 /retail Social Banks

Ignore those interest rates - suck on this instead

Panorama ran a 30 minute programme last night on banks - old-fashioned, high street, retail banks. In true mainstream media style (I'm getting increasingly frustrated with the BBC of late) the focus was on branch banks. Now, don't get me wrong, branch banks are still a force to be reckoned with. (although for the life of me, I cannot remember the l...

20 July 2010 /retail

Corporates - Love your bank?

Finextra is conducting a survey which aims to measure how satisfied corporates are with their banks and in turn, how banks are serving their corporate clients. Our exclusive ‘client satisfaction survey' is spilt into two questionnaires - one for the banks and one for the corporates. Questions for corporates include: How long does it take today on ...

20 July 2010 /wholesale

Put a Swift end to paranoia!

There was a bit of a Twitter storm over this utterly, mind-numbingly ridiculous item from BBC4's the World the Weekend on the, now four year old 'storm in a teacup' that is the US/Swift data privacy debate, which contained such statements as this: Shaun Ley, BBC4 presenter: "If you pop down to the garden centre or a supermarket this afternoon...

05 July 2010 /security Data Management 101

Capitalism, Socialism and the importance of data

I attended a conference last week, in Berlin. (where else would I be?) It was a multi-industry event sponsored by SAS, the Premier Business Leadership Series (basically it was their client conference). Before I delve into the banking stream, the first half of the conference focused on big issue, global economy and business leader issues. It was wit...

30 June 2010 /retail /wholesale Data Management 101

To mandate or not to mandate? One week in June

I spent the week, not sitting on my 'arse' in the office, but out and about wafting through the world of financial data and technology, Twittering when I could, like the delicate flower that I am. I was going to pick out one or two topics to blog about, but instead will serve up snippets of my week. First up - Monday and the always enjoyable FISD W...

11 June 2010 /payments

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