Many experienced senior managers in Financial Services feel like leaving corporate life or have already done so. Many of them have a dream of starting their own company as Tony did after 2012, when he was 54 years old. Or even turn their idea into a successful FinTech startup. But they often think they are […]

The digital leadership skills required to work in Financial Services in the future are very different.

When we think about startups, we all think about young people. But what are ’50plus startups’?

It’s no secret video is taking over as the #1 way to sell ANYTHING. If you look at the statistics, more and more marketers and business owners are moving their marketing over to video from more traditional forms like written content.   In fact, 82% of ALL online traffic will be video by 2022 (15x higher […]

One of my favorite books on selling has long been “How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling” by Frank Bettger. Frank was a professional baseball player who was fired from his first team because his manager thought he was lazy, when confronted Frank confessed he was hiding his own fear and anxiety […]

Self-confidence is not the same as arrogance. Arrogant people often don’t listen to others and try to ramrod their way through life. Someone with self-confidence knows they are not perfect, but they also know they have at least the common sense to work out most everyday problems and challenges in a perfectly acceptable way. They […]

On Monday evening the 22nd of January 2018, a new program on Dutch television on salaries, bonuses & hrm in Financial Services was viewed by 1,1 million people in The Netherlands. Three former bankers including the former CEO of RABO Bank Herman Wijffels and myself were invited to talk about what they did in Financial […]

In week 24, Tony de Bree was number 10 in the list of RegTech influencers of The Planet Compliance Top 100 published by Planetcompliance.com Follow Tony on Twitter here and on LinkedIn here. If you want to contract Tony for your event, fill in this form.

Technological trends and the future of work in Financial Services Because of all the different technological developments a.o. machine learning and artificial intelligence, existing large Financial Institutions are forced to transform themselves quickly by promoting internal entrepreneurship, ‘intrapreneurship’, and to form different types of partnerships with Fintech startups and scale-ups. At the same time, the […]

Fintech: An innovative solution for senior Finance professionals, corporates and Fintech startups and scale-ups. New technology enables existing Financial Services companies, ‘incumbents‘, startups and scale-ups, ‘Fintechs’, to introduce new business models and profit models in innovative ways, to keep ahead of the competition or to disrupt the traditional competitive landscape in Financial Services. Experience shows […]