Things we're reading today include … UK Banks Break-up Banks face a week of reckoning (Independent)Darling & Kroes: Our banks’ future in their hands (Independent)Alistair Darling to break up RBS and Lloyds as he banks on reform (Times)Alistair Darling to outline plans to spend £30 billion buying bank shares (Telegraph)Royal Bank of Scotland to be 84%…
Things we're reading today include … UK Banks Break-up Banks face a week of reckoning (Independent)Darling & Kroes: Our banks’ future in their hands (Independent)Alistair Darling to break up RBS and Lloyds as he banks on reform (Times)Alistair Darling to outline plans to spend £30 billion buying bank shares (Telegraph)Royal Bank of Scotland to be 84%…
I’ve often used the relationship between money and sex as a clear allegory for how important finance and financial services is to our lives. Now we have a real proof point from last week’s Sunday Times (see towards end of page, and this is an abbreviated version): Monkeys wise up and get the hang of…
Business Management Middle East has published a fantastic infographic that takes the Brand Finance's review of the Top 500 Financial Brands globally. Business Management Middle East then compares the bank brand values worldwide by region (doubleclick to enlarge): Superb stuff! * The Finanser is sponsored by VocaLink and Cisco: For details of sponsorship email us
Business Management Middle East has published a fantastic infographic that takes the Brand Finance's review of the Top 500 Financial Brands globally. Business Management Middle East then compares the bank brand values worldwide by region (doubleclick to enlarge): Superb stuff! * The Finanser is sponsored by VocaLink and Cisco: For details of sponsorship email us
Business Management Middle East has published a fantastic infographic that takes the Brand Finance's review of the Top 500 Financial Brands globally. Business Management Middle East then compares the bank brand values worldwide by region (doubleclick to enlarge): Superb stuff! * The Finanser is sponsored by VocaLink and Cisco: For details of sponsorship email us
Wow! This one almost slipped under my radar but, as I was heavily involved in establishing TowerGroup Europe, it should be noted. The Corporate Executive Board (CEB) acquired TowerGroup last week. That's interesting as, when I worked with TowerGroup they were owned by Reuters. Reuters sold them to MasterCard and now MasterCard have sold them…
The big coup in this month’s Management Today (MT) is an interview with the exiting Chairman of Lloyds Banking Group, Sir Victor Blank, who will be replaced by former Citibank Chairman, Sir Win Bischoff at the end of the year. The editorial of MT starts by saying: “nobody, least of all Sir Victor Blank, wants…
The big coup in this month’s Management Today (MT) is an interview with the exiting Chairman of Lloyds Banking Group, Sir Victor Blank, who will be replaced by former Citibank Chairman, Sir Win Bischoff at the end of the year. The editorial of MT starts by saying: “nobody, least of all Sir Victor Blank, wants…
Just stumbled across Yoram Bauman, the Stand Up Economist, who is obviously a chap who believes in the power of economic thinking as he has a Ph.d. in Economics. His ten principles of economic theory are quite fascinating in fact. He bases his principles on Greg Mankiw’s, a professor of economics at Harvard University,who states…
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