Google’s megafest was happening last week, with big announcement for Hangout, Google +, Android and Search / Maps. Among these were a couple of announcements related to Payments (but no major push from Google since Wallet 2.0 last year and no Google Card): - The headline-grabbing announcement – send money via email. Wow, dollar button...
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Shadow banking has become a focus of media in the last years, with many headlines on its growing size, its supposed incomprehensible structure and how it was superseding the existing banking system . This view has often been biased toward rejection and misunderstanding. After all, one can argue an independent hedge fund has a better...
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Harware hacking has been making the headlines, with the Maker Faire movement growing over the last few years. This is one of the roots of the recent startup hardware trends, also fueled by platforms such as Kickstarter. What is interesting to me is that we can see the same level of hacking on financial...
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2013 starts very strong and time is already a precious resource. Some notes on what I am interested in: - Redefinition of Employment: Crisis may recede, but long term changes to employment structure will not. Rise of the Robot Economy. http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2012/12/10/1303512/the-robot-econ… Information employment less stable (as detrimental to knowledge expansion) Possible impacts: Underwriting, Lending...
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I have highlighted in the past several major trends affecting financial services : - Digitization of transactions, especially receipts from purchases. - Improvement and democratization of marketplaces, lowering the cost of liquidity on transactions - Improved leverage of assets from the emergence of collaborative consumption (Airbnb, Getaround) Private Banking is sometimes offering to their...
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I have highlighted in the past several major trends affecting financial services : - Digitization of transactions, especially receipts from purchases. - Improvement and democratization of marketplaces, lowering the cost of liquidity on transactions - Improved leverage of assets from the emergence of collaborative consumption (Airbnb, Getaround) Private Banking is sometimes offering to their...
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Douglas Adams describing Algorithmic Retail Banking in 1997. So much in line with these 2 posts I wrote – Next: Algorithmic Banking and Should people manage their bank accounts? No! Starts 17 minutes in. Interview with the late Douglas Adams speaking about artificial life from Andy Taplin on Vimeo. Wow! Subscribe to the comments...
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Douglas Adams describing Algorithmic Retail Banking in 1997. So much in line with these 2 posts I wrote – Next: Algorithmic Banking and Should people manage their bank accounts? No! Starts 17 minutes in. Interview with the late Douglas Adams speaking about artificial life from Andy Taplin on Vimeo. Wow! Subscribe to the comments...
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I had the opportunity to present in Geneva for World Usability Day. Here is the Prezi of my talk, unfortunately not recorded. This is a summary of some of my previous posts in Usability in online banking and why using Accounting design as the framework for usability is wrong. World Usability Day: Finance...
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I had the opportunity to present in Geneva for World Usability Day. Here is the Prezi of my talk, unfortunately not recorded. This is a summary of some of my previous posts in Usability in online banking and why using Accounting design as the framework for usability is wrong. World Usability Day: Finance...
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