What happens when you bring 8,200 delegates together for a banking event?
Well, you get at least some bizarre tweets. Here are the 8 oddest tweets from this year’s Sibos, which took place last week in Singapore. They say as much about the uncertainty of the future of banking as they do about the nature of social media in the banking industry today.
Do you say “locked”? …
@LizLum Hope you had a great time. What a treat to spend a Sibos not locked inside a perspex box, eh?
— Asif Faruque (@AsifFaruque) October 16, 2015
By what measure? …
Sibos 2015: blockchain not so disruptive after all | Asset Servicing news http://t.co/NN9oSJZ4QI — th_sat (@th_sat) October 17, 2015
Deep …
Alternative financing a risky business, say Sibos speakers http://t.co/ytsOFrunPB #BI #BigData — TungstenBigData (@TungstenBigData) October 16, 2015
Do you speak British? …
catching up #Dowton post #Sibos. There’s still time for Lady Mary to become a Tory MP, which wouldn’t be historically implausible — Andrew Marshall (@Andrew_Marshall) October 18, 2015
Huh? …
Swift CEO: Cyber security a bigger challenge than fintech http://t.co/KCxYQwzWFI — Samantha Jacobs (@nycgreengoddess) October 19, 2015
This one is a complete mystery…
CloudyButt: Microsoft at #Sibos: Helping banks get more out of applications, my butt & #bigdata #mieexpert pic.twitter.com/gqrcavULqe — ClearGrip (@ClearGrip) October 19, 2015
There’s a difference? …
That’s no exaggeration, at points during #Sibos it was hard to tell if I was at a banking or #fintech event https://t.co/pnhaw70dkH — Sean M Tuffy (@SMTuffy) October 19, 2015
Well, at least this one makes sense…
Finally. Am done with sibos.
— D.Ace (@IzzRascal) October 18, 2015
Obviously, it wasn’t all weird tweets out of Sibos. Perhaps that most notable news was Hyperledger, which demoed at our Bank Innovation in Seattle last March, winning the $50,000 Innotribe Startup Challenge. Hyperledger was acquired by the Blythe Masters-led Digital Asset Holdings in June. See Hyperledger’s original Innotribe pitch below.
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