Humour

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 …

I was going to start this week with a serious blog post, but the ABN AMRO kickoff meeting for 2014 has caught everyone’s attention.  In fact, it’s made everyone note it so much that I’m going to dedicate today’s blog entry to it. Why did it grab the attention of …

I was wondering how long it would take for a wearable bank app to appear, especially as we now have Google Glass and Samsung Galaxy Watch, so it was no surprise to see my friends over at the Financial Brand spot the first release of these services. It is also no …

So I’m buying a house and have a conversation about the house buying process with a bank colleague. He is adamant that this is where the branch comes into its own. I disagreed, but accepted that it may be different in different markets, but that all markets are moving in …

We have all of these phrases and meanings that we use every day about money, life and more, but few of them do us really know or think about them in their reality of usage. For example, where does a slush fund really come from; do you ever sell yourself …

We have all of these phrases and meanings that we use every day about money, life and more, but few of them do us really know or think about them in their reality of usage. For example, where does a slush fund really come from; do you ever sell yourself …

Blah, blah, blah goes the talking head on the news. Banks … bad … money … sell … losses … Groan, moan, dull, boring. Ripoff … scandal … government … economy … bonuses … fatcat … Depressing, stop it, shut up, no. Millions … billions … balance sheet … profits …

Blah, blah, blah goes the talking head on the news. Banks … bad … money … sell … losses … Groan, moan, dull, boring. Ripoff … scandal … government … economy … bonuses … fatcat … Depressing, stop it, shut up, no. Millions … billions … balance sheet … profits …