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Author and commentator on FinTech, the Chief Executive of Balatro Ltd., and co-founder of the website Shaping Tomorrow
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Keynote speaker Chris Skinner is best known as an independent commentator on the financial markets through the Finanser and Chair of the European networking forum the Financial Services Club, which he founded in 2004. The Financial Services Club is a network for financial professionals. It focuses on the future of financial services through the delivery of research, analysis, commentary and debate and conducts regular meetings in London, Dublin, Edinburgh, and Vienna. Chris is also the author of several books which cover everything from European regulations in banking through the credit crisis to the future of banking.
Chris Skinner is the Chief Executive of Balatro Ltd, a research company. In addition, he is a co-founder of the website Shaping Tomorrow, and a regular commentator on Sky News , BBC News, and Bloomberg concerning banking issues.
Chris is the author of ten books, with a recent series of seven published by Searching Finance and covering everything from the credit crisis through payments to social media in finance.
He serves as a Judge on many awards programs including the Card Awards and the Asian Banker’s Retail Excellence Awards. In addition, he has worked closely with leading banks such as the Royal Bank of Scotland, Citibank, HSBC, and Société Générale and the World Economic Forum.
Chris Skinner is a regular keynote speaker at leading industry forums. Through these keynotes, he has presented alongside many other leading world figures including Gary Hamel, Richard Branson, Lou Gerstner, Meg Whitman, Michael Porter, and Bill Gates. Prior to founding Balatro, Chris was Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for Unisys Global Financial Services and he was the Strategy Director with NCR Financial Services. These roles helped spark Chris’ specialization in the future of financial services after he created the Global Future Forum in Unisys and the Knowledge Lab in NCR.
Our speaker Chris Skinner studied at Loughborough University in the UK, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Sciences alongside a Diploma in Industrial Studies. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Management Services, an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute and a Chartered Insurance Practitioner.
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Speaker Chris Skinner is often requested to provide advice to firms on their business strategies, marketing plans or sales campaigns. This often takes the form of coaching and counseling services around a wide variety of themes, including:
A typical engagement for example, may be to provide an in-depth market analysis for a firm’s new product launch, including targeted markets and geographies, competitor overviews, SWOT analysis, recommended marketing budgets and resources, sales campaign life cycles and so on.
Chris Skinner is known to be an exceptional speaker which is why he is regularly requested to keynote at many of the financial market’s most prestigious events. He also regularly opens as keynote at many private industry events. His keynote addresses focus upon the key current trends and future scenarios for all areas of financial services, across retail and investment markets and payments.
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What is the message you hope people take away from your presentations?
That the future is exciting, visible and can be predicted; that there are great opportunities for those who seize the visible future; and that innovation is a good thing.
What made you decide to become a professional speaker?
I’ve been a spokesperson for my mainstream career in business for over twenty years. Therefore, when I became independent, I knew I had a style that people liked so I tried out a few after dinners and keynote speeches. Having been invited back many times to speak again, I guess it worked.
How are your keynotes unique?
I’m not a joker or funnyman, but my speeches mix humour and knowledge to give insight. It’s what used to be called edutainment – educating whilst entertaining. That’s what I think my keynotes deliver. They are very international views also, as I travel globally and regularly speak to foreign language audiences. That’s where I learned early on that keynotes need to be highly visual but not wordy. Finally, I’m very British and therefore you need to like British humour when you hire me!
What types of audiences benefit from your keynotes?
I talk a lot about changes in society, economics, business and technology, so anyone interested in the future but particularly those interested in the future of financial services and banking.
How do you combine banking and history in your keynotes?
In many ways, you can only talk about the future of something today if you know its history yesterday and, in the case of banking, that’s particularly true. As most folks know, my core stomping ground is banking, which is an industry that is both reviled and revered and always has been. Having researched finance from ancient Babylon through the Renaissance and Industrial Revolution to today’s world of mega global connections, I therefore provide a lot of insight into how banking has become what it is today and where it is going tomorrow.
How do you believe the banking industry will look in 10 years?
I tend to focus upon the future from a commercial viewpoint and hence my real focal point is what’s happening in 18 months to three years so that the decision makers can take advantage of near-term change, so ten years is too far out for realistic predictions. Nevertheless, if you want a few predictions, there will be fewer banks; more global, large, too big to fail banks; far less branches, about a tenth of today’s numbers; and at least one more financial crisis, but far less significant than the last one.
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