Shaping the future of finance
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…
Just found the most fantastic website through the Ridiculant, called A/V Geeks. The site claims to hold over 22,000 films it has rescued from dustbins of schools in their educational vaults of 16mm archives, and there are many gems to be seen. Looking for those related to banking, there's a few that might be useful, such as…
Just found the most fantastic website through the Ridiculant, called A/V Geeks. The site claims to hold over 22,000 films it has rescued from dustbins of schools in their educational vaults of 16mm archives, and there are many gems to be seen. Looking for those related to banking, there's a few that might be useful, such as…
After the unbelieveable video of sheep-herding yesterday, it made me wonder if Lord Turner, Tim Geithner, Jean-Claude Trichet and their mates are all trying to achieve this result, e.g. if you could get all the sheep (banks) to go to the pen (regulatory regime) at the same time, then you’d have a result. Unfortunately, banking…
After the unbelieveable video of sheep-herding yesterday, it made me wonder if Lord Turner, Tim Geithner, Jean-Claude Trichet and their mates are all trying to achieve this result, e.g. if you could get all the sheep (banks) to go to the pen (regulatory regime) at the same time, then you’d have a result. Unfortunately, banking…
The Austrian Times reports that a desperate bridegroom committed four bank robberies after his fiance's plans for a huge white wedding got out of hand. "The hapless groom, a 36-year-old Turk living in Vienna, netted more than €275,000 ($350,000) before he was caught but it still wasn't enough for his fiancee who demanded 500 guests,…
In what began a week ago as an attack on CNBC's Business News coverage and escalated into a head-to-head battle between CNBC's Stock Market pundit Jim Cramer and Comedy Central's Jon Stewart, came to what seemed to be a conclusion on Thursday night as Cramer made a personal appearance on Stewart's Daily Show. The full…
I'm on travels again and in Hong Kong this week. That's fine although it was disappointing to wake up to the South China Morning Post screaming headline: "HSBC hit by worst fall for two decades". Oh yes, that really cheered me up. It's all to do with the HSBC £12.5 billion ($17 billion) rights issue…
