FSClub

We had our final meeting of the year for the Financial Services Club in Central & Eastern Europe (FSClub CEE) this week, with an excellent panel discussion about the risks and opportunities across the region looking forward.  This is almost a bookend to our opening FSClub CEE discussion of whether there was a credit crisis…

We had our final meeting of the year for the Financial Services Club in Central & Eastern Europe (FSClub CEE) this week, with an excellent panel discussion about the risks and opportunities across the region looking forward.  This is almost a bookend to our opening FSClub CEE discussion of whether there was a credit crisis…

With the news this week of 3,700 job cuts in Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) branches, the government increasing its stake in RBS from 70% to 84% and Lloyds setting off on a £21 billion fundraising spree, it seemed like a good time to launch the Financial Services Club Scotland. We had our first meeting…

Earlier this week, as mentioned, we looked forward to a fine dinner with Vince Cable at the Club and a fine dinner it was. Dr. Vincent Cable to give him his full title – or Vince – is the author of the Storm: The World Economic Crisis and What it Means, a book about the…

Earlier this week, as mentioned, we looked forward to a fine dinner with Vince Cable at the Club and a fine dinner it was. Dr. Vincent Cable to give him his full title – or Vince – is the author of the Storm: The World Economic Crisis and What it Means, a book about the…

Earlier this week, as mentioned, we looked forward to a fine dinner with Vince Cable at the Club and a fine dinner it was. Dr. Vincent Cable to give him his full title – or Vince – is the author of the Storm: The World Economic Crisis and What it Means, a book about the…

In preparing for the speech of Vince Cable, being delivered this evening at the Financial Services Club, I have been reading his book the Storm: The World Economic Crisis and What it Means. It seems rather clear of our mania with using property to make money when you summarise the figures Mr. Cable presents in…

We had a good meeting of the Financial Services Club in Vienna on Wednesday night for our Central & Eastern European (CEE) Group. The meeting was in a cool place called the K47 Club … The focus of the meeting was microfinance, and was interesting because talking of microfinance and microcredit in CEE is very…