Thoughts on Switzerland
European Straits #88
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Thoughts on Switzerland
I spent the second half of last week in Switzerland, where I had the opportunity to talk about The Family and my book Hedge with various audiences in both Geneva and Zurich. Here are a few highlights:
My hosts in Switzerland are part of Temenos, a company specialized in providing software solutions to the banking sector. Ben Robinson and his team, among them Laura Kemp, Amal El Alami, and Dan Colceriu, are specifically working on developing the Temenos Marketplace, on which startups specialized in financial services can provide their solutions to Temenos’s corporate clients. I find it a sound strategy in the pursuit of staying relevant in a context of accelerating innovation. It’s for banking what Salesforce is for sales and Amazon Marketplace is for retail. It makes it possible for an established global provider to harness the power of 65+ new entrants (as of today) …