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The Finanser’s Week: 2nd July – 8th July 2012

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Barclays advert Everyone in my twittersphere has been retweeting this picture. Diamonds are forever  I wrote a brief summary last Friday about a wholesale need to change the industry and thought that was it … it’s not. I need to write more about this heap of…

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The Finanser’s Week: 25th June – 1st July 2012

Our biggest stories of the past week are … RBS-NatWest proves that technology IS the bank  The big news at the end of last week is that the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) had a computer crash, affecting all of the UK bank including NatWest and Ulster Bank. It caught headlines worldwide: NatWest and RBS…

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The Finanser’s Week: 18th June – 24th June 2012

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Is it just me, or is everything just … I’m having one of those days. It started off OK, and then it just went downhill. So I was going to blog about various market opportunities and ideas in banking and then thought: sod it, time for…

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The Finanser’s Week: 11th June – 17th June 2012

Our biggest stories of the past fortnight are … Metro Bank: 200 branches by 2020 A couple of years ago, I was talking a lot about Metro Bank. The reason being that it is Britain’s first brand spanking new retail bank in living memory. The bank has since received lots of free publicity as the……

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The Finanser’s Week: 28th May – 10th June 2012

Our biggest stories of the past fortnight are … Is the Queen worth it? After two days of a jublicious love-in for our Queen, you have to ask: is she really worth it? And, according to British Airways Business Life Magazine, the answer is a resounding yes. The article discusses how much the Queen costs…

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The Finanser’s Week: 20th May – 27th May 2012

Our biggest stories of the week are … The end of 'free' banking In the 1970s, the UK's Midland Bank introduced a new competitive service – free banking. It wasn’t free of course, but it appeared that way. The idea being that if you stayed in credit, they wouldn’t’ charge you anything. It… Lázaro Campos…

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The Finanser’s Week: 14th May – 20th May 2012

Our biggest stories of the week are … The multibranded bank Having made the claim many times that banks are not great at multichannel but excel in a single channel, I got into an interesting debate last night with the CEO of one UK bank.  He was asking whether branch-based banking had a future.  I…

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The Finanser’s Week: 7th May – 13th May 2012

Our biggest stories of the week are … Billions of reasons to use social media in business Interesting dialogue about social media in finance. Social media is so wide and vast today that it’s hard to cover in one blog post. Most people think Facebook and twitter when you say social media (eight and five…

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The Finanser’s Week: 30th April – 6th May 2012

Our biggest stories of the week are … In the future … HSBC might not be a bank Flying around all the time, you sometimes forget to absorb the ads around you. There’s one particular ad I’ve spotted for some time now, but only today got around to investigating. It’s HSBC’s latest campaign. Moving on…

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The Finanser’s Week: 30th April – 6th May 2012

Our biggest stories of the week are … In the future … HSBC might not be a bank Flying around all the time, you sometimes forget to absorb the ads around you. There’s one particular ad I’ve spotted for some time now, but only today got around to investigating. It’s HSBC’s latest campaign. Moving on…

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