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In a post over at BankWatch, Colin writes that banks should expect a round of disruptive innovation after present market turbulence settles. As he says, "there is always someone able to do it better and cheaper". Clayton Christensen would now argue, were he here on this blog, that as incumbent companies are unable to disrupt themselves, all this innovation will come from outside the walls of traditional banks. His arguments on that point are obviously cogent and well based in historical fact.
BankerVision: Getting good at breaking things
Guillaume’s blog » Blog Archive » Banking-related panel proposal
I searched the SXSW interactive panel picker for “banking”, “money”, “finance”, “financial”, etc. Here are the panels I found: Banking 2.0 – Algorithmically Fixing the Sub-Prime Mess (suggested by Christopher Hughes, PennyMac ): Sub-prime debt may be causing the collapse of the worldwide economy. Speculators, investors, banks, mortgage brokers, honest home-owners have all been duped into believing that that the real estate market was a “sure thing”. Can a solution be found with a computing cluster, open source software, and a semi-complex algorithm? Yes.
Banks are lazy.
BankSimple
To be followed. Let's see if it becomes really a leaner banking model by Jun 30
Pastor Rich Lang of Ballard's Trinity United Methodist Church speech on hope and purpose at this year's Washington Physician's for Social Responsibility fundraising dinner. Transcript below (with permission). This is no time to sleep dreaming of what was once long ago. We must awaken to the seriousness of this moment and awaken further into the opportunity of this moment to radically change the world, to alter history’s script, to rewrite a vision of what is possible and what is desirable. This is our moment to reclaim the glory of our mortality even as we limit and tame and reduce the immortality of Corporate Persons so that they begin to serve human need, and earth’s fertile, fruitful evolution. This is our moment to organize for freedom: to organize around a new vision of human being, and a new possibility of living cooperatively.
Digital cash?
The Future of Money
Future of Money & Technology Summit
Mobile Payments
The new face of venture capital: The rise of crowdfunding | Vent
Conventional VC networks and outlier identification produce poor returns.
You see many individuals flocking the ‘startup movement’ as the biggest new craze on Planet Earth. What you also see, is a lot of these individuals jumping ship left and right from one startup to another, only staying in one startup for a limited period of time. How would you feel about a potential partner,... Read more... The JOBS act was signed into law by President Obama on Thursday 5 April, supported by overwhelming bypartisan support.
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