My latest presentation is apparently a polemic. That’s what my colleague said yesterday, when I said that my new presentation has three themes: Mobile is irrelevant; Money is meaningless; and Capitalism is dead. I wondered what she meant by polemic, so checked out the definitions online and Wikipedia defines it quite well: a polemic is…
My latest presentation is apparently a polemic. That’s what my colleague said yesterday, when I said that my new presentation has three themes: Mobile is irrelevant; Money is meaningless; and Capitalism is dead. I wondered what she meant by polemic, so checked out the definitions online and Wikipedia defines it quite well: a polemic is…
In another conversation, I gained a new dimension as to how the regulatory and governmental influence is changing a bank’s outlook. I was talking with a very senior manager in a bank. This person heads up risk, audit and compliance. He is a member of the bank’s executive board. A heavy hitting player. He had…
In another conversation, I gained a new dimension as to how the regulatory and governmental influence is changing a bank’s outlook. I was talking with a very senior manager in a bank. This person heads up risk, audit and compliance. He is a member of the bank’s executive board. A heavy hitting player. He had…
No, it’s not about flagellation and sado-masochism, although the current regulatory regime is not far off that. It’s also true that the regulatory regime is pretty mind-boggling these days, with fifty shades of interpretation of fifty shades of law. This was made clear to me in dialogue with a group of European banks involved in…
No, it’s not about flagellation and sado-masochism, although the current regulatory regime is not far off that. It’s also true that the regulatory regime is pretty mind-boggling these days, with fifty shades of interpretation of fifty shades of law. This was made clear to me in dialogue with a group of European banks involved in…
At the start of the year, I always make a few predictions about what will happen in the following year. Watch this blog in January for 2013’s predictions. But what were the predictions for 2012? Well Economically, I made the following forecasts: Asia’s light continues to shine, but not quite as bright American equities is the place…
