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The Finanser’s Week: 5th September – 11th September 2011

Our biggest stories of the week are … Who owns Iceland?   I'm in Iceland this week, and there's a fascinating split across the country over xenophobia and sovereign rights.  This is because, post the financial crisis, the country is selling its prized assets from energy to land, acre by acre, kilowatt by kilowatt.  Is this…

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The Finanser’s Week: 29th August – 4th September 2011

The biggest news stories of the week include … Customer segmentation in retail banking  Adkit, an international research firm, just sent me their insights into customer segmentation in retail banking. It’s an interesting report summarised in a 21-slide presentation. The main results show that most banks are narrowing down to three or four key… Finformation…

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The Finanser’s Week: 22nd August – 28th August 2011

  Our biggest stories of the week are … Data can be currency, just like salt We are living in times where I often talk about data being our new currency, and that data is more valuable than money or gold in the context of modern life. This may sound like a joke, but historically…

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The Finanser’s Week: 15th August – 21st August 2011

Our biggest stories of the week are … Do you know what this number means?  So I’m walking around New York and stumble across Broadway and 32nd where this billboard is over Penn Station’s subway entrance: Now I am confused on so many levels. First, who’s that woman covering up her breasts? Isn’t America the……

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The Finanser’s Week: 15th August – 21st August 2011

Our biggest stories of the week are … Do you know what this number means?  So I’m walking around New York and stumble across Broadway and 32nd where this billboard is over Penn Station’s subway entrance: Now I am confused on so many levels. First, who’s that woman covering up her breasts? Isn’t America the……

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The Finanser’s Week: 8th August – 14th August 2011

Our biggest stories of the week are … Banks need to radically shake up and wake up Frank Partnoy wrote a fascinating opinion piece in yesterday’s FT about the coming world of smaller banks. In the article, he compares HSBC with Google and asks why Google generates as much, if not more, value than the…

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The Finanser’s Week: 1st August – 7th August 2011

  Our biggest stories of the week are … Is this the end of the euro? For the past two years, we have performed a major survey around the euro and European payments. The survey for 2011 is ending on 9th August: click here to take survey and click here to see the last two years of results. The…

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The Finanser’s Week: 1st August – 7th August 2011

  Our biggest stories of the week are … Is this the end of the euro? For the past two years, we have performed a major survey around the euro and European payments. The survey for 2011 is ending on 9th August: click here to take survey and click here to see the last two years of results. The…

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The Finanser’s Week: 25th July – 31st July 2011

Our biggest stories of the week are … Delivering stellar service in banking I keep thinking about stellar service and what it could mean. Very rarely do you experience stellar service these days. With airlines, it’s a pain to fly. The airport experience is degrading and the flight itself is no longer exceptional,… Too Big…

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The Finanser’s Week: 18th July – 24th July 2011

  Our biggest stories of the week are … Is this the end of the euro? For the past two years, we have performed a major survey around the euro and European payments. The survey for 2011 is now live: click here to take survey and click here to see the last two years of results. Heard the Word…

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