Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
I was all geared up to write a blog about the UK Payments Council's U-Turn on cheques - it was going to cover themes of democracy, banking innovation, understanding the customers (ALL of the customers - not just the 'cool kids') and of course sophisticated banking. Then I saw this. The UK doesn't look so bad after all.
13 July 2011
You be hard pressed to attend any financial services-themed event this year with hearing a range of presentation explaining, warning, commenting on the end of ‘light touch’ regulation. You can argue all you want about the so-called politically motivated move to ease access to credit and mortgages to people who may not have been best placed to han
08 July 2011 /regulation /wholesale
Some of you may know I've been on the road the past few weeks. A big social media blog is coming soon. But I wanted to get in a few words about Cris Conde while the news is still fresh. I'd like to throw off my journalist hat for a moment and speak as a person. CEOs don't get a lot of love in this post-economic crisis age, but if there was ever a ...
20 May 2011 /regulation
We're hosting a webcast on Finextra right now looking at everyone's favourite tech trend - cloud computing. However, before any IT head worth his iPad case starts dreaming about the processing power, flexibility and resiliency cloud computing can offer - his or her thoughts inevitability turn to security. In the webcast Adeel Saeed, head of Corpor...
25 March 2011 /regulation /wholesale Financial Risk Management
I just got off the phone with Mark Jones, the financial communities editor for Reuters, about being our keynote speaker at Social Media Days - London. (He's sending me some bullet points for the keynote, so we'll be sure to get him up on the agenda as soon as that's in) It has been non-stop here at Finextra HQ and we have almost closed the speaking...
10 March 2011 /retail /wholesale Social Banks
First Direct invited me to moderate a roundtable looking at social media in financial services in conjunction with Social Media Week (last week). (I had planned to do a blog on this sooner - but despite a flu jab a few months ago - I came down with the most horrendous flu/cold last week - so blog posting were sparse) The discussion included speake...
18 February 2011 /retail Social Banks
Someone batted around a sad, but not that surprising, statistic about our Finextra Community demographics yesterday. It's seems that a whopping 16% of our readership are women. Way-Hey! OK, so we cover the financial services industry and the technology industry - the two alpha males of the alpha-male dominated industries. But, come'on 16%? Can't w...
15 February 2011 /retail /wholesale Social Banks
I have had a number of interesting chats with IT, information security and risk people about BYO (bring your own) technology and devices, and collaborative social sharing software, lately. (they were part of the non-editorial part of my job, so I can't spill the identity beans-yes, I know, it pisses me off too) Anyway, we all know the considered a...
26 January 2011 /regulation /wholesale Finance 2.0
So, does anyone think 2010 was a really weird year? It didn't have the 'OMG! Western Capitalism is dead!' drama of 2008, nor the limping, walking wounded vibe of 2009. Hey, 2010 even saw the return of the Sibos closing party (ah-hem 'networking event') and I spotted a chocolate fountain at one Amsterdam venue. You know there's a little extra in th...
17 December 2010 /retail /wholesale
I've written before how groupthink, not only makes my skin crawl, but is counterproductive to innovation (it is the grit that makes the pearl, remember). But I've been thinking a lot about herd behaviour lately. I have a natural revulsion to following the crowd. How easy my life would be if I just cut & pasted popular opinion, without critique...
10 December 2010
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