Professor Joy Notter and Chris Carter, are highly qualified professional nurses and academics at the Birmingham City University, who have made it their life’s calling to help developing countries build advanced level nursing training programmes. Not basic nurse training but advanced training in emergency, intensive care, pandemics and so on that developing countries need as […]
The CEIBS International Conference was held alongside the famous Lujiazui Forum on 19 June 2025. The annual Lujiazui Forum is where the Chinese central government outlines its policy objectives for the financial services industry. The CEIB runs it own forum alongside to drill down on practical implementation issues that the country can consider. So foreigners […]
Just a few weeks before giving this speech, I was in Zambia, and visiting the border town of Livingstone with the specific purpose of reading the missionary David Livingstone’s letters in the local museum. The opportunity chanced on me to do something that I had been wanting to do all my life, but somehow never […]
I spent a day hosting Rosie Rios, the 43rd Treasurer of the U.S. whose signature is on $1.8 trillion worth of physical dollar notes, and who is now a director at Ripple, making her just the right person to ask how the digital dollar will evolve. She sounded optimistic, but in a qualified way, which […]
When Piyush Gupta announced his retirement from Singapore’s DBS Bank, I immediately told our research team and they submitted his name for this year’s William “Bill” Seidman Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Financial Services Industry. This was put through our council of advisors who approved it unanimously. His achievements were nothing short of amazing. […]
There are many reasons to dislike Donald Trump and be suspicious about where he is taking the US and the rest of the world with him. I personally have huge issues with many of the things he says, the ways in which he has no accountability for his words and actions and the people he […]
I joined The Road to Growth podcast with Vinnie Enriquez to discuss the future of banking, crypto, and the real reason financial institutions resist change. It’s not about technology. It’s about mindset. After working with banks in over 120 countries, I’ve seen how quickly the industry shifts—when it wants to. But in this episode, we […]
What makes the US dollar so powerful — and why does it remain at the heart of the global financial system, even as countries search for alternatives? My nonchalant answer is always “because the Americans don’t care” and I always follow that up with “the Chinese care too much.” In this wide-ranging podcast with Manoj […]
I recently sat down with two entrepreneurs from opposite ends of Africa — Anthony Munyi in Kenya and Akwete “AK” Bortei-Doku in Ghana — both navigating the harsh realities of building startups in markets that lack meaningful exit strategies. In our conversation, we unpacked how the absence of functioning capital markets erodes valuations, why traditional […]
In this playful speech given at an awards dinner in Tokyo, Japan in March 2025, I started by wanting to celebrate the Chinese year of the snake. But as I explored what the snake has meant in a whole range of cultures, from Chinese to Egyptian, Indian, Greek and Judeo-Christian, I was coming to interesting […]
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