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Bankers and Pizza

Greg at Voices in Business sent me this today: When even Pizza Express is taking the mickey out of banks, we know we have made the Z-list!

Pizza

Bankers and Pizza

Greg at Voices in Business sent me this today: When even Pizza Express is taking the mickey out of banks, we know we have made the Z-list!

Pizza

Market nuts

Flying around Europe today gives you plenty of time to read the papers back to front, which kind of showed that the banking market is a bit nuts right now, as if we didn't know. For example, I normally read the Financial Times online, but scouring through its pages in tactile form is more satisfying…

The Bank with strippers

Speaking of stripping men (see blog below about contactless marketing), last year I blogged about a spoof of how to get folks to come into Barclays Bank by putting strippers in the window: This was a mockup but now it appears that the Russian subsidiary of Unicredit Bank has taken the idea seriously, and hired…

Barclays

The Bank with strippers

Speaking of stripping men (see blog below about contactless marketing), last year I blogged about a spoof of how to get folks to come into Barclays Bank by putting strippers in the window: This was a mockup but now it appears that the Russian subsidiary of Unicredit Bank has taken the idea seriously, and hired…

Barclays

The Bank with strippers

Speaking of stripping men (see blog below about contactless marketing), last year I blogged about a spoof of how to get folks to come into Barclays Bank by putting strippers in the window: This was a mockup but now it appears that the Russian subsidiary of Unicredit Bank has taken the idea seriously, and hired…

Barclays

We need weenies …

Just found the most fantastic website through the Ridiculant, called A/V Geeks.  The site claims to hold over 22,000 films it has rescued from dustbins of schools in their educational vaults of 16mm archives, and there are many gems to be seen. Looking for those related to banking, there's a few that might be useful, such as…

We need weenies …

Just found the most fantastic website through the Ridiculant, called A/V Geeks.  The site claims to hold over 22,000 films it has rescued from dustbins of schools in their educational vaults of 16mm archives, and there are many gems to be seen. Looking for those related to banking, there's a few that might be useful, such as…

Extreme bank-herding

After the unbelieveable video of sheep-herding yesterday, it made me wonder if Lord Turner, Tim Geithner, Jean-Claude Trichet and their mates are all trying to achieve this result, e.g. if you could get all the sheep (banks) to go to the pen (regulatory regime) at the same time, then you’d have a result. Unfortunately, banking…

Extreme bank-herding

After the unbelieveable video of sheep-herding yesterday, it made me wonder if Lord Turner, Tim Geithner, Jean-Claude Trichet and their mates are all trying to achieve this result, e.g. if you could get all the sheep (banks) to go to the pen (regulatory regime) at the same time, then you’d have a result. Unfortunately, banking…

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