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Silvia Pavoni

New Year, new ideas

January 26, 2024

Bold new concepts at Davos serve as inspiration for the year ahead

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Liz Lumley

Can fintech fulfil its promise if we are still asking if it will last?

January 24, 2024

The Future of Global Fintech report, launched at Davos, is optimistic. The laurels are far from being rested on yet. 

Liz Lumley

How NFTs, Mercedes-Benz and the Post Office got me thinking about failure

January 17, 2024

You can write about technology until the cows come home — it always comes back to culture.

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Liz Lumley

Zing! Market reach is yours

January 10, 2024

For consumer fintech, market domination is a different mountain to climb.

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Liz Lumley

In 2024, banks (and Barbie) continue to embrace change

January 3, 2024

Change isn’t always easy, but it is almost always worth it. Here’s to a new year and a forward-looking vision for The Banker in 2024.

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Joy Macknight 2023

Building an inclusive national payment infrastructure

December 15, 2023

While southern Africa’s payments infrastructure has been in development for more than five decades, there has been limited progress in terms of financial inclusion, according to a recent report.

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Liz Lumley

I predict nothing! (But wishing is OK)

December 13, 2023

Strategy is about working hard all the time, not writing lists for LinkedIn.

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Joy Macknight 2023

Celebrating the bankers of the future

December 8, 2023

At an event in London, the Chartered Banker Institute announced the winner of the Young Banker of the Year 2023 award, with submissions focused on ideas to improve outcomes for customers, colleagues and communities.

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Liz Lumley

Antidisestablishmentarianism in crypto

December 6, 2023

When the anti-establishment becomes established, did it even exist at all?

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Joy Macknight 2023

Congratulations to the Bank of the Year 2023 winners

December 1, 2023

The institutions that triumphed this year demonstrated agility in adapting to the quickly changing environment with flair and pizzazz, adeptly dealing with numerous and intertwined challenges that emerged in 2023.

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