Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
First off, let me just say I am not slagging off the Innotribe sessions at this year's Sibos. I love innovation. Whether it's the next hot thing or the next hot air - innovative ideas and technology gives us a glimpse at where the future is going and how our economy is evolving. However... The myriad of blogs and Tweets that inevitably follow a s...
05 November 2010 /sibos /wholesale Finance 2.0
One criticism of the digital age is that 'living online' so-to-speak, takes away from real interactions with living, breathing human beings. Well, without being ironic, Twitter was the ultimate catalyst for 'meets & greets' at Sibos this year. A whole slew of people I've never met, but knew on Twitter, came by and hung by the Finextra booth (I'...
01 November 2010 /sibos Social Banks
Not much. No, seriously, really not that much. Well, that's not strictly true. I do have some beliefs and knowledge about the use of social media from a personal, professional and every day life point of view. But, you know what, I bet they are not based on experience that is longer or more nuanced than any of you. I put up a Linkedin profile arou...
08 October 2010 /sibos /wholesale Social Banks
The dialogue between the needs of the business groups (often widely disparate and silo'ed business groups) and the responsibilities of the enterprise IT departments can often read like a clichéd marriage guidance session: "But, he/she just doesn't understand me!?" But what if there was a road to operational nirvana? An IT infrastructure t...
05 October 2010 /wholesale
Two things popped up at me on Twitter today. One a blog with comments by Alex Payne criticising Twitter, again (you work for banksimple now!) and another bit of street graffiti adorning London's new cycle hire scheme (the Boris bikes), which are sponsored by Barclays. Alex Payne comments about how Twitter used to be free and open and fully staffed...
17 September 2010 Whatever...
I asked yesterday if anyone was 'bothered' by ongoing march of Sepa. Well one of you was. Emmanuel Léchère of the Market Intelligence Group at Paris-based institutional investor, bfinance International, called me up yesterday to say he thought I had the dates reversed in regards to an end-date for Sepa Direct Debit and Sepa Credit Transfers. I ha...
15 September 2010 /payments
I, for one, like to keep our treasured Finextra Community on their toes. So in the run-up to Sibos, I am running a Sepa Poll. I hear from many in the industry that Sepa is really only a priority at banks because of the regulatory mandate, and in fact, that mandate is not really enforced all that rigorously. What do you think? Are you eagerly awaiti...
14 September 2010 /payments
I just wanted to share this with the Finextra community. I was going to put it in 'best of the web' but it's not really news, or financial or...well, we all remember Citi and how its staff did not need social media to do their jobs.... This is running around Twitter at the moment, so for those allergic to Twitter, here is good old reliable Dilber
13 September 2010 Social Banks
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
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
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