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Eurocrash! The Musical

One of the good friends of the Financial Services Club is David Shirreff, European Business Correspondent for the Economist. David’s written a few amusements outside work, including a couple of musicals.  The last one was Broke Brittania, a musical all about our wonderful Gordon Brown and his attempts to destroy Britain’s economy (Ed: did I say…

Euro RIP

2012: a bank customer outlook

Some folks asked me to add a fourth outlook to my 2012 series regarding what customer focused trends would be occuring in 2012. Now I'm a fintech guy with a strong marketing background, and was going to write a long analysis of customer outreach – or is that outrage? – strategies for banks in 2012,…

2012: a bank customer outlook

Some folks asked me to add a fourth outlook to my 2012 series regarding what customer focused trends would be occuring in 2012. Now I'm a fintech guy with a strong marketing background, and was going to write a long analysis of customer outreach – or is that outrage? – strategies for banks in 2012,…

2012: McKinsey say banks need to reinvent themselves

Stumbled across an interesting report from McKinsey that says business as usual is not an option for American banks.   They'll go out of business if they don't change their business models, as average Return on Equity will sink from 11% to 7% by 2015, whilst the cost of equity will reach 9%.  That means…

2012: McKinsey say banks need to reinvent themselves

Stumbled across an interesting report from McKinsey that says business as usual is not an option for American banks.   They'll go out of business if they don't change their business models, as average Return on Equity will sink from 11% to 7% by 2015, whilst the cost of equity will reach 9%.  That means…

Season’s greetings and all that …

That's me done … will return here on 3rd January so, in the meantime, Joyeux Noël and Feliz Navidad. Here's a few of my favourite ecards this year. First, the Financial Services Club's of course … You may recognise it as our favourite new badge, and this is the specially commissioned Club cartoon by Hugh…

Hugh McLeod

Season’s greetings and all that …

That's me done … will return here on 3rd January so, in the meantime, Joyeux Noël and Feliz Navidad. Here's a few of my favourite ecards this year. First, the Financial Services Club's of course … You may recognise it as our favourite new badge, and this is the specially commissioned Club cartoon by Hugh…

Hugh McLeod

Seasons Greetings 2012

Wishing you all the best for the holiday season from the Financial Services Club. In the context of a revival of fortunes in 2013 for the industry, see below …

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Seasons Greetings 2012

Wishing you all the best for the holiday season from the Financial Services Club. In the context of a revival of fortunes in 2013 for the industry, see below …

Screen Shot 2012-12-02 at 15.49.11

UK banks pay £53.4 billion in taxes

Just got a press release that I would usually ignore … but this one's interesting.  It's from Open Europe, a think tank, and says that the UK banking sector not only pays over £50 billion in taxes, but that the whole sector is in danger of being squashed by the EU. Here it is for…

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