Over the weekend, Standard & Poor’s downgraded nine Eurzone countries, calling into question the viability of the Eurozone for the long term. France was downgraded to a level not seen since 1975. Italy is now considered the same credit risk as Kazakhstan. Portugal’s credit has now reached junk status. “This is not a catastrophe”, the…
Over the weekend, Standard & Poor’s downgraded nine Eurzone countries, calling into question the viability of the Eurozone for the long term. France was downgraded to a level not seen since 1975. Italy is now considered the same credit risk as Kazakhstan. Portugal’s credit has now reached junk status. “This is not a catastrophe”, the…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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