Sat.Nov 16, 2013 - Fri.Nov 22, 2013

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Bankers: What is the value of your strategy?

Jeff For Banks

'A colleague and I recently had a healthy discussion about what agenda items to include at strategic planning retreats. He was strongly in favor of showing summary level financial projections for "business as usual" at the financial institution. Showing value creation, or erosion, from doing the same things you have been doing will highlight the need for staying the course or strategic change, in his opinion.

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Separating Payment Innovation Wheat from Chaff

Javelin Strategy & Research

Working for a payments research firm has distinct perks if you are, like me, a self-confessed payments nerd. You get to be privy to some of the most innovative and brilliant concepts way before they are brought to market and have the opportunity to pick the brains of some of the smartest minds in the industry. Every once in a while you get to see a new product or service that is truly the next generation of payments.