October 25, 2014
Inspiration for this week’s post comes from a couple of articles in the press this week. One highlights just how expensive it is to organise what happens after one person says buy and the other says sell. The other highlights a great initiative to encourage the use of standards. The TabbFORUM published a very thought […]
October 21, 2014
How to behave in the club? Last week’s post was about the unique requirement that the banks have to cooperate in order to effectively settle transactions. A Catch-22, because they need to cooperate and ideally not to have a “Heinz 57 varieties” situation with multiple solutions for the same problem, but as the regulators expect […]
October 12, 2014
Banking is not special, it is an industry like any other. Whilst I would stand by the first statement, there is something unique about banking. The need to cooperate. Today, in southern Germany, the senior execs of Porsche, Mercedes and BMW might be interested in what their rivals are up to, but they do not […]
October 6, 2014
In any competition between an Anglo and a Swiss, the Anglo will win more often than not. Ok, this is a generalisation. But it holds true often enough in banking, though not at football, as the team there just followed on from earlier defeats of Man Utd. and Chelsea by beating Liverpool. Inspiration for this […]
September 29, 2014
Inspiration for this week’s post comes from a recent presentation for the Swiss Finance Institute. I have always maintained that there is nothing special about banking, so included in that presentation were thoughts on what might be learned from the great watch company. Success with production in one of the world’s most expensive locations In […]
September 15, 2014
This week’s post is inspired by some client work and offers a few suggestions for the kinds of control needed to ensure that client data is both accurate and complete. In times passed, setting up a client account was more art than science. There might have been twenty fields to fill in. If you filled […]