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Our biggest stories of the week are … How to deal with an insolvent bank Sitting in a conference talking about living wills isn’t how you want to spend your typical day, but it did spark a whole bunch of thoughts in my mind. The FSA issued their consultative paper 11/16 last summer. The idea……

Our biggest stories of the week are … Amartya Sen: thoughts on poverty and the global financial crisis I attended an interesting lecture last night from an economic legend: Professor Amartya Sen of Harvard University. If you haven’t heard of him, he’s known as the Mother Teresa of economics in his native India, and has…

Our biggest stories of the week are … Amartya Sen: thoughts on poverty and the global financial crisis I attended an interesting lecture last night from an economic legend: Professor Amartya Sen of Harvard University. If you haven’t heard of him, he’s known as the Mother Teresa of economics in his native India, and has…

Our biggest stories of the week are … Horizontal versus vertical: myth and reality For most of my life, I’ve been aligned to the financial services industry as a supplier of technology and, throughout this time, I’ve dealt with technology companies that struggle with moving from being horizontal to vertical, from generic to specific, from…

Our biggest stories of the week are … Horizontal versus vertical: myth and reality For most of my life, I’ve been aligned to the financial services industry as a supplier of technology and, throughout this time, I’ve dealt with technology companies that struggle with moving from being horizontal to vertical, from generic to specific, from…

"Show me the money!" Sure, I'll show you your losses You can sense an audience’s reaction as you present ideas on innovation. Sometimes its warm and engaging, sometimes distant and thoughtful, and occasionally remote and cynical. I experienced all three reactions last week when presenting at a bank’s annual … How The City Developed, Part…

"Show me the money!" Sure, I'll show you your losses You can sense an audience’s reaction as you present ideas on innovation. Sometimes its warm and engaging, sometimes distant and thoughtful, and occasionally remote and cynical. I experienced all three reactions last week when presenting at a bank’s annual … How The City Developed, Part…

Our biggest stories of the week are … How The City Developed, Part Five: The Stuarts After the Tudors, England went through a period of massive turmoil under the new Royal Household of the Stuarts.  Throughout the 17th Century, the Royal Household (the Crown) and Government (Parliament) were at war, both figuratively and literally. How The…