Commentary
Watch Dave in action here…
Dave has delivered keynotes across the globe to all manner of audiences, here is a selection of some those presentations as they happened!
Events
IIMR New Means of Payment Seminar
Yesterday, Dave gave a talk at the Institute of International Monetary Research’s New Means of Payment Seminar on the drivers for digital currency and the implications for global payment systems. You can catch up on the video here – Dave’s session starts at 1 hour. In the meantime, below is Read more…
Commentary
Podcast: Identification, Authentication & Authorization: The Identity Puzzle
“People say identity means all sorts of different things,” Birch says. “But I have quite a structured model, which I’ve found is useful for facilitating conversations in business. So I tend to think of it in three related domains: identification, authentication and authorization.” Read more and listen to the podcast here
Writing
Factories or supermarkets: post-pandemic banking
Dave was chatting with Simon Paris, the CEO of Finastra, at the Paris Fintech Forum last week and he made him reflect on the split between the manufacturing and distribution of financial services and the push for BaaS and Dave went on to write a blogpost about it here…
Techniques
A functional view of banking
When I’m working on strategy with financial organisations, I often find the Bodie and Crane classification (Harvard Business Review, 1996) a useful basis. This gives me a model that sees banks as a bundle of six basic functions: three core transfer functions and three interaction functions. The core functions are transfers in time (credit Read more…