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Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
Ah, finallly, spring is in the air, and Finextra is, once again, embarking on another, real-time, live Twitterview. This time, it's with the big boys-global banking giant Citi. Finextra will be Q&A-ing, in real-time with Paul Butcher, Director, Communications Central, Citi, who is responsible for the global corporate social media initiatives as...
02 June 2010 /retail /wholesale Social Banks
For the past few weeks I have been talking with a group of people at a large global bank about doing a Twitterview (it is scheduled, and will be publicised closer to the date, so keep your pants on). A lot of the talk was about bridging the gap between the gung-ho, Twitter-happy leader of the social media group and the corporate communications team...
19 May 2010 /retail /wholesale Social Banks
There is still time to register for our upcoming webcast Latency and Liquidity - The future of electronic trading, sponsored by IBM and suppoerted by the FISD. We have a great panel assembled and we are all geared up up to have a real debate on how to access the best array of liquidity venues in the shortest amount of time. Or to put it another wa...
10 May 2010
Now that May is almost upon us, we here at Finextra HQ are busy putting the final touches on EBADay, the only European payments conference you should attend. (and that's not just because this year, we are descending on the beautiful Luxembourg.) The preliminary agenda looking at Unlocking the full potential of Sepa, has been formulated and is avail...
30 April 2010 /payments /retail EBAday
Despite Iceland's attempts to derail Western Europe's economy yet again, this year's TradeTech event was surprisingly well attended. Word is about 75% of the delegates made it to the show-with some speakers managing to arrive via the magic of satellite video streaming. So, with volcanic ash and travel disruptions being no more than a conversation ...
29 April 2010 /wholesale Social Banks
Sources inside Thomson Reuters have said that Tom Glocer's plans for the massive market data, news, technology etc, etc, etc...vendor must proceed without failure or he (and by default everyone else) is toast. Remember, a few years ago when our sailboat-loving Tom made a sneaky play in Toronto - going over the head of Thomson Financial honcho Sharo...
14 April 2010 /wholesale
It's spring now at Finextra HQ and with it comes a new live and interactive webcast, Retail Banking - Customer engagement in the digital age, sponsored by Adobe. The webcast will look at a range of issues affecting retail banks in the digital age, debated by a team of industry experts, including: Tom Berry, Director, Carbon Communications (modera...
13 April 2010 /retail
I spent most of yesterday at the FIX Protocol EMEA event. For my string of live Tweets, follow the #finxlive hashtag, or @LizLum. From now on we will try to incorporate #finxlive into our live Tweets from events, to make it easier to watch the 140 character nuggets of news, comment, and gossip from Finextra's roving journos. Now, back to FIX - as e...
24 March 2010 Data Management 101
Finextra held court for a much viewed Twitterview yesterday with soon-to-be launched US retail bank, banksimple. Once launched, banksimple plan to offer individual deposits to US customers as well as small amounts of credit. There will be no branches and no hidden or complex 'fees' because "Banks can make plenty of money from net interest marg...
18 March 2010 /retail Social Banks
Finextra held court for a much viewed Twitterview yesterday with soon-to-be launched US retail bank, banksimple. Once launched, banksimple plan to offer individual deposits to US customers as well as small amounts of credit. There will be no branches ("Branches are an anachronism") and no hidden or complex 'fees' because "Banks can ...
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