Pragmatist

Sixteen years on from my own initial posts on the subject of a personal assistant that can privately find and buy stuff for you on the web, ...

The Governor of the Bank of England has a key leadership role in the UK financial system, so it's important to understand his vision fo...

The British Parliament has finally had the chance to scrutinise the new UK-Japan trade deal that has been trumpeted for so long by Brexidiot...

Ironically, I was asked to give a European view of Brexit for an online conference this morning. I say, ironically, because it was in my rol...

A key EU financial authority has asked EU regulators to be strict on UK firms seeking to escape the impact of Brexit. The concern is t...

Perhaps it's not what the European Commission intended, but its green paper on retail financial services is a great explanation of w...

Funny to see a story from John Gapper in the FT this morning, saying technology will hurt retail banks but not kill them , only a few pag...

What a difference a year makes. At an industry event yesterday none other than Nicola Horlick , a well-known fund manager, confirmed her...

Oh those poor, poor bankers. Now, we're told by Spear's , that the new 'retail distribution' rules have made their lives ...

When Gordon Brown ( remember him ?) repeatedly proclaimed the " end of boom and bust " he was declaring his belief - along wi...

I've hugely enjoyed the documentary series tracing Dave Fishwick's valiant efforts to start a small community 'bank' in ...

Image from Parliament.uk This time he's made a submission   To the Banking Standards Commission . He's a poet and he didn...

It's not every day you get to brainstorm ways to bring diversity and sustainability to Britain's ailing financial system amidst ...

The comments under the Guardian's piece on Barclay's mobile money transfer app tell you everything you need to know about the p...

The distinction between 'facilitators' and 'institutions' is a theme that has emerged quite strongly in this blog and is ...

I guess it started out as a reasonable idea - provide card customers with comfort that someone else will help if your credit card is stolen ...

Good to see Michael O'Higgins , the new Chair of the UK Pensions Regulator making a splash in his first interview. He's quoted in Tu...

I spent Monday partly examining the practicalities of treating time as a currency at BarCampBank4 . In essence, ' time banks ' for...