Episode Synopsis "#6 The Consortium Conundrum Pt 1 - How banks change things"

Welcome to the latest edition of the podcast series: The Banker’s Plumber - Lessons Learned.  What’s up in banking? What’s changing? What has gone wrong? What is going right? Today, the focus on something I am calling the “consortium conundrum”. Banks want to and need to become more efficient; produce the same for less or more for the same. Some improvement steps they can take on their own. Only some though.  A very large part of the cost base for banks is driven by the need to collaborate with other market participants. Working on collaboration is all about infrastructure, trying to reduce friction and fragmentation. Getting enough banks to march in the same direction is really hard, unless there is a deadline. Herding cats. What needs to be done, what works, what doesn’t? To help explain the picture, I am delighted to have as a guest today James Maxfield, MD at Ascendant Strategy. James is a veteran of the operations side of wholesale banking. James is a frequent and thoughtful commentator on the future of banking.

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• #11 - Gautam Gujral / Vertalo
• #10 David Potter - Islamic Finance
• #9 Colin Parry
• #8 - Tim Swanson
• #7 - The Consortium Conundrum Pt 2 - How banks change things
• #6 The Consortium Conundrum Pt 1 - How banks change things
• #5 More Operational Risk
• #4 The role of Operational Risk
• #3 Size Matters
• #2 Mike Certo / Ed Watts - The origins of the title “Lessons Learned”
• #1: Barry Lewis - About Basics and Good Control
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