January 2, 2021
Optimistic. With 2020 now behind us, that word sums my Bankers’ Plumber’s view of what is ahead of us in wholesale banking in 2021. A longish read, so you might want to save it for chillaxing on Sunday. This past year I have had the great fortune to work both in the payments arena, with […]
November 8, 2020
A few insights to share from recent work with financial institutions on how to take steps toward change in the world of digital assets. In the halls of these august, large institutions, there is often talk about whether to be a first mover vs. being a fast follower. You might call this a head vs. heart […]
July 30, 2018
“What exactly are the risks with Tether?” That question was posed to me recently by a very senior exec from one of the tech titans in FAAG. Way back, my friend mined some Bitcoin and he had recently had a rough time turning the sale proceeds into real cash in a bank. Two other recent […]
June 8, 2018
Infrastructure. What does that mean? It feels like something that is intangible. I am lucky enough to live in Switzerland, where infrastructure is actually something really tangible, whose value you experience every day. Public transport works, the schools work and kids have various routes to getting a very good education, we have fibre and broadband […]
March 24, 2018
“Help for banks”. That hardly sounds like a noble cause worthy of anybody’s support. But bear with me for this two minute read and I’ll explain. If I have any of this wrong, please let me know your views. In any case, please share widely. For the plumbers of the banking world this is important […]
February 18, 2018
DLT offers the promise of faster, better & cheaper. There is real promise and even enough to have the ECB president, Mario Draghi, agree on the potential and acknowledge the ECB is looking at it. Now nothing is going to happen by magic and certainly not by central bank diktat, so how might all this […]