More competition beats more regulation
As the “Occupy[anywhere bankers work]” movement gains momentum, renewed calls and support for more regulation of banks and other financial institutions grow. And yet. Financial institutions are already...
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A Kodak Moment
Over the years he watched digital projects lose battles for research dollars. Even though film’s market share was declining, the profit margins were still high and digital seemed an expensive, risky...
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Blueleaf: a trillion dollar market opportunity
A billion dollars isn’t cool, you know what’s cool? A trillion dollars. A bit more than a year ago, my friend Fred introduced me to John Prendergast who was in the very early stages of conceptualizing...
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Re-inventing finance at Lift12
Last Thursday I had the great privilege of having been invited by the remarkable Laurent Haug to present a snapshot of our vision of the new emerging universe of “digitally native finance” at the...
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An alternative approach (to financing innovation)
When we set out to create Anthemis Group, we thought long and hard about how it should be structured. We wanted a structure that would: optimally support our core mission to build the leading...
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A Damascene Conversion?
Though your towers were tall and your powers were grand you could not understand how you fell from great heights and you burrowed with speed a kingdom you did lead from heaven to hell - A Fistful of...
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This is no way to run a financial system
The micro-cracks are turning into fissures, soon to be gaping crevasses as (finally) the obsolescence of our industrial age banking system plays itself out in spectacular front page headlines....
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The Connected Company
Last week I was away with my family for a few days. In a location where there was no working internet connection and a very sketchy 3G signal. As a start-up founder with a never-ending to do list, this...
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Why does Rice play Texas?
September 12th will mark the 50th Anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s famous speech at Rice University launching the project that would put Neil Armstrong on the moon less than 8 years later. Listening to...
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Welcome to the stack: the end of mainframe banking
Many years ago, enterprise software was written to run on mainframe computers. This was the best (only?) solution at that time that had the requisite memory and processing power to run these...
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Why is capital still chasing (bank) branches?
Anyone who is at all interested in innovation and disruption in banking and financial services will have noticed that the world is seeing a Cambrian explosion of startups targeting this industry. It’s...
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Manufacturing Serendipity: Networks, Communities & Ecosystems
“Which path do you intend to take, Nell?’ said the Constable, sounding very interested. ‘Conformity or rebellion?’ Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded – they are only for people who cannot cope...
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(In)efficient markets
Pretty much anyone who has been involved in financial markets for any length of time and has some success knows that these markets are not efficient. And thank goodness. Well sort of. Thank goodness...
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The end. And the beginning.
Re-inventing industries is hard. There is no getting around this. The days are long. There are many uncertainties. There are many challenges to overcome. And yet. Just at those moments when you begin...
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Re-inventing finance at Lift12
Last Thursday I had the great privilege of having been invited by the remarkable Laurent Haug to present a snapshot of our vision of the new emerging universe of “digitally native finance” at the...
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