Humour

So we’re having a meeting the other day and my friend was a little upset.  He’d just been promoted in the bank to become the Director of Digital Payments, Innovation and Strategy.  We all noted that he was now the lead for DPIS and congratulated him for taking DPIS.  For …

So it’s late at night and we reach that point in the evening where it’s almost embarrassing.  I love you man.  You’re my best and only friend in the world, y’know what I mean? Having gone past the point of talking about whether the Pope is really a money launderer …

I get a lot of spam and scam email most of which is deleted but, as it's Friday, I thought y'all might appreciate the phish that follows …  —–Original Message—– From: Benard Madoff [mailto:midoffnyc@madoff.com] Sent: 08 April 2015 13:54 To: me Subject: Help me Make a difference   Hello Dear …

I’m often asked about how to implement a digital bank?  What are the top tips? My response is that every company is different, with no two banks the same.  Some are evolutionary and try to tinker with the current company structure; some are revolutionary, like mBank, and radically reorganise the …

I’ve talked for some time about component based banking but what about component based pricing? Bank pricing is the most opaque part of the industry, and the part that irritates customers the most.  Customers get charged high fees for unauthorised overdrafts as this funds free bank services for those who …

I’ve talked for some time about component based banking but what about component based pricing? Bank pricing is the most opaque part of the industry, and the part that irritates customers the most.  Customers get charged high fees for unauthorised overdrafts as this funds free bank services for those who …

Like many of you, I’m an Apple user in some form.  In my case, my telephone as well as a mini iPad. The iPhone5S (must upgrade to 6!) is an essential in my life. “Who’s the actress who starred in that film?”  IMDB app on my iPhone. “How long has …

I've blogged before about twitter fails, specifically JPMorgan's disaster last November, and it illustrates how companies are finding it challenging to adapt to the new connected world. Another great example of such behaviour was sent to me by a friend this week. A little known chappie with the twitter handle …

Every so often, you get a little frutstrated watching boring bank adverts, so here are a few that will make you smile. First, bearing in mind the time of year and what recently happened, I'm not sure that Abitab (a payments service) will want to air this ad outside Uruguay …

I am tempted to write a long and deep blog today about EMIR, the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation, and how the more transparency regulators force into our capital markets, the more likely that banking will move into the shadows. But it's Friday and, having spent most of yesterday at Ladies Day …

I am tempted to write a long and deep blog today about EMIR, the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation, and how the more transparency regulators force into our capital markets, the more likely that banking will move into the shadows. But it's Friday and, having spent most of yesterday at Ladies Day …

I was going to use this in my presentations but it’s far too difficult to fit everything in these days, so it’s a blog post instead. I’ve been asked to research 2035 by a client. One of the things I stumbled across was this: “Scandinavian scientists develop dog ‘translator’”.

It's a long holiday weekend here in Britain and so the Finanser is away until Tuesday. We leave you with a few light-hearted levities to consider until then. From The Dry Bones Blog: From Conde Nast's New Yorker: From the London Underground Blog: And finally, from Hilarious Galleries:

It's a long holiday weekend here in Britain and so the Finanser is away until Tuesday. We leave you with a few light-hearted levities to consider until then. From The Dry Bones Blog: From Conde Nast's New Yorker: From the London Underground Blog: And finally, from Hilarious Galleries:

It’s Valentines day and Goldman Sachs is talking about bringing back the love into banking. Lloyd Blankfein, the notorious CEO who talks about banks doing God’s Work whilst his staff call customers muppets and the media call them the Vampire Squid, is quoted in an interview with Japan’s Nikkei newspaper as …