The future of Europe and the euro
Whither the economic outlook? A speech by Professor Grzegorz Kolodko, former Deputy Premier of Poland given at the opening of the Financial Services Club, Poland Note: These are the impressions gained...
View ArticleThe Opening of the Financial Services Club, Poland
We had our inaugural meeting of the Financial Services Club Poland last night at the British Embassy in Warsaw. It was an amazing evening with a packed audience comprising many of the Presidents of...
View ArticleIf you thought PPI was costly, wait till you see the price of this scandal
We had a fascinating insight into the issue of swaps mis-selling from Jeremy Roe last night at the Financial Services Club. Jeremy was a victim of the process and has been championing the cause ever...
View ArticleChanging a bank’s culture needs actions not words
We had a fascinating discussion about how to fix the banks at the Financial Services Club last night (Part Two next week) and the gist of what most panellists came back to, as well as the audience, is...
View ArticleFour out of five corporates are not ready for SEPA end-dates
For the fifth year, the Financial Services Club ran a survey of payments professionals worldwide to see how successfully regulations and technologies are changing the European payments landscape,...
View ArticleFixing our banks: now we know the answer
We had another round of debate about fixing the banking system at the Financial Services Club this week (read Part One here). This time it was the turn of the shareholder, media and industry to air...
View ArticleThe continuing battle over interchange fees
I remember in one of our early Financial Services Club meetings, a member of the UK Government’s Treasury Select Committee asking our attentive throng: can any of you explain APR to me? Not a single...
View ArticleWhatever you think, Wonga is doing well
We hosted Errol Damelin, Chief Executive and Founder of Wonga as our keynote guest at the London Financial Services Club last week, to end our season of meetings for the 2012-2013 season (2013-2014...
View ArticleThe Financial Services Club climbs Everest and opens in New York!
I am delighted to announce the Q4 season of events at the Financial Services Club in London. We also have exciting news about expansion of the Financial Services Club from our current base of five...
View ArticleThe Financial Services Club opens in the Nordic Region
The Financial Services Club is delighted to announce the opening of our new Nordic Region Club in Q4, with two meetings planned in Stockholm and Oslo. Based in London, the Financial Services Club was...
View ArticleThe world at your feet … and then you lose them
I’m sitting today reflecting on my good friend Mark Inglis’s talk at the Financial Services Club last night. It was an open house to launch our new season of events for the 2013-2014 season (see end of...
View ArticleWhat does a Lord Mayor do?
This weekend is the Lord Mayor’s Parade, where we do literally parade the new Lord Mayor of London, Fiona Woolf. This is not the political Mayor of London, Boris, but the Lord Mayor, an office that...
View ArticleWhat do corporates want? KYB (Know Your Bank)
Another day, another Financial Services Club meeting. This time it was the turn of Colin Tyler, CEO of the Association of Corporate Treasurers. Colin delivered a fascinating presentation around whether...
View ArticleAre banks ready for Cloud?
We had a lively meeting at the Financial Services Club the other day, talking about cloud computing in banking. I say lively because it is still clear to me that cloud is misunderstood in banking. I...
View ArticleThe Future of SWIFT: a meeting with Gottfried Leibbrandt
Still busy in the Financial Services Club world with meetings in Stockholm, Vienna, Warsaw and London all in the past two weeks. The interesting theme of all these meetings, and those in our future...
View ArticleThe story of the official Financial Services Club’s Bear!
The Financial Services Club finished the year with a party, of course. This party was at one of the ancient livery companies of London, the Wax Chandler’s Hall (what’s a wax chandler?), and dedicated...
View ArticleEuropean Union means Banking Union, but what does it mean for the City of...
We had our usual first footing for the Financial Services Club this week, with an illuminating update from David Doyle, Policy Adviser on all things related to EU Financial Legislation. The meeting...
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Will Cyprus become Bitcoin’s global financial centre? An interview with Jon...
As mentioned in the previous two blog entries: Why governments will fail to block the emergence of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin What can you buy with a bitcoin? (we have a whole Bitcoin section on...
View ArticleThe Financial Services Club Agenda 2014
It's been a manic season of Financial Services Club meetings now that we are in eight cities - Bratislava, Dublin, Edinburgh, London, Oslo, Stockholm, Vienna and Warsaw - and it does not look like...
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Vikings: raiders or traders?
We had our second meeting of the Nordic Financial Services Club in Oslo last week. It was a fantastic meeting with case studies from a number of local firms including Schibsted Media Group, ValYou and...
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