Shaping the future of finance
I got a nudge today from NAB. No, it’s not a disease. It’s NAB, National Australia Bank, who recently pulled the pants down on their competitors by telling them they were all dodgy in a national advertising campaign framed around the theme: “it’s over between us ”. The aim was to set NAB apart from…
I’m quite pro-European as it goes. Roughly translated, as I’m British, this means that as long as the Eurocrats stay in Europe and out of the UK, that’s fine. It's also because the main benefit is that I enjoy holidays without having to worry about changing currencies. In truth, I'm quite pro-European because I've been…
I’m quite pro-European as it goes. Roughly translated, as I’m British, this means that as long as the Eurocrats stay in Europe and out of the UK, that’s fine. It's also because the main benefit is that I enjoy holidays without having to worry about changing currencies. In truth, I'm quite pro-European because I've been…
I’ve written about the end of privacy before, but now the big news in the UK is that privacy is a joke. There is no such thing. For example, we had a court of law here that could implement superinjunctions to stop the media leaking information about people’s private lives. Major stars of media, sport…
I had an interesting (but competely April Fooled fictional) conversation with the Chief Executive of one of the UK’s largest banks last night. He was telling me about a new bank alliance that has been formed to address their concerns over what the G20 might do about bank bonuses, taxation, lending, governance and general operations….
This week saw the first discussions of a possible sale of Northern Rock back into the private sector. This is the bank that signalled the real start of the credit crisis when it went under during the summer of 2007 and had to be nationalised. Interestingly, the press have all started speculating who is going…
