Numbers

Aug 11, 2009

Numbers, Part 15: 10 facts about money

Time Magazine regularly produce lists of interesting trivia, and recently had two that are worth noting: "the top 10 things you didn't know about money" and "the top 10 things you didn't know about the penny". The 'penny' is the American one cent coin. Combining and editing these into an easily digestible list that works…

Aug 11, 2009

Numbers, Part 15: 10 facts about money

Aug 4, 2009

Numbers, Part 14: Social media and banks

Let’s look at the relevance of social media to banks. Banks are starting to get into the idea of social media with Scotia Bank, Bank of America and HSBC running small business community networks for example, as well as some such as Wells Fargo pushing the envelope with blogs, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. The usual…

Jul 16, 2009

Numbers Part 13: Big Banks

According to Indian student Amit Soni, who shares a lot of good presentations about Indian banks on Slideshare, India has 88 commercial banks with 53,000 branches and 17,000 ATMs. The State Bank of India (SBI) is shaking these things up by distributing over 11,000 new ATMs this year, bringing their total number to 25,000. I…

Mar 11, 2009

Numbers, Part Twelve: Remittances

This is the first numbers note for a while but, after an interesting day learning all about the latest in remittance markets, it's time to post one today. I’ve often talked about the remittance markets and chaired a meeting today where SWIFT, Wells Fargo, Earthport, Citi, Western Union, ICICI Bank and more outlined the progress…

Mar 11, 2009

Numbers, Part Twelve: Remittances

Mar 27, 2008

Numbers, Part Eleven: Mobile and Cellphones

More numbers, and I was fascinated to see a presentation from O2, the UK mobile service, the other day where they held up a few numbers that are fairly staggering. In the UK: 15% of people are dumped by a girl or boyfriend via an SMS text message; O2 sold their first iPhone at 6:02…

Mar 27, 2008