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The Finanser’s Week: 7th November – 13th November 2011

Our biggest stories of the week are …   That European Joke (Part Two) I’ve been loathe to talk too much lately about the Eurozone as it’s just too darned depressing. What with Greece slipping and sliding away, Italy bunga’d out and now France being challenged, it’s just a crazy, crazy moment in history…. A big…

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The Finanser’s Week: 31st October – 6th November 2011

Our biggest stories of the week are …   PayPal, Forrester, Deloitte & First Data research on mobile payments A summary of research on mobile banking and payments conducted in the USA by Deloitte; the UK by PayPal and Forrester; and globally by First Data. The Pope, EU and USA want a Tobin Tax … surely…

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The Finanser’s Week: 24th October – 30th October 2011

Our biggest stories of the week are …  The best mobile financial videos on the Web During the conference yesterday, several presenters used video clips to illustrate the range of mobile payments options there are today. One of the longest and most comprehensive is a reworking of Microsoft’s Retail Banking Vision, which originally focused upon…

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The Finanser’s Week: 17th October – 23rd October 2011

Our biggest stories of the week are …  Inside the bank's boardroom crisis meeting, October 2011 Welcome to the first of what may be many fly-on-the-wall (FOTW) reports of internal bank management matters. In this first FOTW report, we sent Marty, our Scottish fly, into the monthly management meeting of one of the world’s largest…

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The Finanser’s Week: 17th October – 23rd October 2011

Our biggest stories of the week are …  Inside the bank's boardroom crisis meeting, October 2011 Welcome to the first of what may be many fly-on-the-wall (FOTW) reports of internal bank management matters. In this first FOTW report, we sent Marty, our Scottish fly, into the monthly management meeting of one of the world’s largest…

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The Finanser’s Week: 10th October – 16th October 2011

Our biggest stories of the week are …  Do banks know their customer? So I’ve just finished a mainstream keynote debate at #Eurofinance2011 in Rome about bank to corporate relationships. My role was to moderate a panel of six key industry players, three from corporations: Debbie Millar: Group Executive – Treasury, Funding and… Virtual currencies…

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The Finanser’s Week: 10th October – 16th October 2011

Our biggest stories of the week are …  Do banks know their customer? So I’ve just finished a mainstream keynote debate at #Eurofinance2011 in Rome about bank to corporate relationships. My role was to moderate a panel of six key industry players, three from corporations: Debbie Millar: Group Executive – Treasury, Funding and… Virtual currencies…

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The Finanser’s Week: 3rd October – 9th October 2011

Our biggest stories of the week are …  Volcker Rule details are leaked The Volcker Rule, named after former head of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker who advised on the investment banking reforms of the Dodd-Frank legislation, has been rumoured for ages and was originally a proposal to ban proprietary trading completely. In case you missed…

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The Finanser’s Week: 3rd October – 9th October 2011

Our biggest stories of the week are …  Volcker Rule details are leaked The Volcker Rule, named after former head of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker who advised on the investment banking reforms of the Dodd-Frank legislation, has been rumoured for ages and was originally a proposal to ban proprietary trading completely. In case you missed…

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The Finanser’s Week: 26th September – 2nd October 2011

Our biggest stories of the week are … Eurozone crisis threatens SEPA The euro zone crisis threatens to derail the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), according to a new research paper. Challenging those who separate the crisis from SEPA preparations, The Eurozone, the ECB and the feasibility of SEPA: an overview, says the Sepa policy objectives…

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