Hopefully readers can forgive me if I sometimes seem a little disjointed in my writings. I attend wealth management conferences and find myself the only person talking about digital marketing, social media and engaging clients across multiple delivery channels. Then I attend social media and financial technology events and find myself the only person talking […]
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Finovate Spring 2012 Recap
Sorry to take a little while to get this posted, but I had an important Mothers Day post to write. Last week I attended the fifth annual Finovate financial technology conference in San Francisco. This year’s event was the largest yet, with nearly 1200 entrepreneurs, bankers, investors, analysts and FinTech fans experiencing 63 product demos […]
Congratulations Finovate Spring 2012 Winners!
Congratulations to the Finovate Best of Show winners (in alphabetical order): All in all a great show, and I enjoyed meeting lots of great people as I explore the intersection of leadership, advice and technology. More of my impressions and my personal favorites coming soon. BehavioSec BillGuard Dwolla iQuantifi MoneyDesktop Personal Capital SoMoLend
Finovate Spring 2012 Preview
This week I will be back in San Francisco attending the Finovate Spring 2012 financial innovation conference. Finovate is a two-day showcase of the newest financial and banking technology innovations from both established companies and startups. Short company demos of just seven minutes each are presented in back-to-back blasts, and no slides are allowed, so presenters […]
Five Things Banks Can Learn From Start-Ups
Most bankers don’t spend a lot of time with start-up companies. The need for bankers’ loan decisions to be right 99% of the time tends to not mix well with most start-ups’ risky and voracious appetite for capital. Outside of a few bankers in Seattle, Silicon Valley and a few other places, the clear exception […]
Best of Bank Innovation 2012- Part 2
Yesterday I brought to you some of the best thoughts from Day One of the Bank Innovation conference held last week in San Francisco. It was a great event filled with some of the sharpest minds in financial innovation. Today, I bring you some of the best ideas from Day Two, plus a few of […]
Best Ideas From Bank Innovation 2012- Part 1
Last week I attended the Bank Innovation 2012 Conference in San Francisco. I met a lot of great people and picked up some new ideas. Here’s what stuck out for me (in a good way): What Is “Banking” Today? A Debate on the Future “We need to marry the online experience to the real world […]
Sorry, But You’re No Steve Jobs
Today is Apple’s 36th anniversary. Appropriately, there was an amusing article in the March 30 Wall Street Journal (Bio as Bible: Managers Imitate Steve Jobs) that described managers who take their admiration of the Apple co-founder beyond inspiration to imitation. Mindless repetition of another’s actions in hopes of repeating their success may work for a […]