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Banking in an anti-terrorism world

Found a wonderful site today thanks to the Ridiculant. This site is one where a nice chap has taken a picture of this anti-terrorism poster (double-click picture to see larger text): and allowed you to remix it into any poster wording you like.  I chose this one: which naturally led to this one: but by…

Original

Vive le revolution!

So the G20 protests were a bit of a damp squib, thanks to tight police controls, but not so in France where the NATO Summit in Strasbourg saw a lot of trouble. But I was more interested in two other stories. The first is from the Times and relates to the growing trend in France…

Great predictions of the past

It's easy to catch people's prediction out in hindsight, with the most common ones being things like "I see a worldwide market for about five computers" from Thomas Watson, IBM's CEO in the 1950s, and "640k is enough memory for anyone" from Bill Gates. Now there's a website dedicated to collecting these predictions called "Wrong…

Great predictions of the past

It's easy to catch people's prediction out in hindsight, with the most common ones being things like "I see a worldwide market for about five computers" from Thomas Watson, IBM's CEO in the 1950s, and "640k is enough memory for anyone" from Bill Gates. Now there's a website dedicated to collecting these predictions called "Wrong…

Bankers and Pizza

Greg at Voices in Business sent me this today: When even Pizza Express is taking the mickey out of banks, we know we have made the Z-list!

Pizza

Bankers and Pizza

Greg at Voices in Business sent me this today: When even Pizza Express is taking the mickey out of banks, we know we have made the Z-list!

Pizza

Market nuts

Flying around Europe today gives you plenty of time to read the papers back to front, which kind of showed that the banking market is a bit nuts right now, as if we didn't know. For example, I normally read the Financial Times online, but scouring through its pages in tactile form is more satisfying…

The Bank with strippers

Speaking of stripping men (see blog below about contactless marketing), last year I blogged about a spoof of how to get folks to come into Barclays Bank by putting strippers in the window: This was a mockup but now it appears that the Russian subsidiary of Unicredit Bank has taken the idea seriously, and hired…

Barclays

The Bank with strippers

Speaking of stripping men (see blog below about contactless marketing), last year I blogged about a spoof of how to get folks to come into Barclays Bank by putting strippers in the window: This was a mockup but now it appears that the Russian subsidiary of Unicredit Bank has taken the idea seriously, and hired…

Barclays

The Bank with strippers

Speaking of stripping men (see blog below about contactless marketing), last year I blogged about a spoof of how to get folks to come into Barclays Bank by putting strippers in the window: This was a mockup but now it appears that the Russian subsidiary of Unicredit Bank has taken the idea seriously, and hired…

Barclays