Europe’s annual drinks festival moves to Boston
Europe’s greatest export to promote the art of strong drinking opens next week in one of America’s oldest cities, Boston. SIBOS, an acronym for Standing In Buckets Of Slop, was created by the Belgians as a way to promote wine and beer drinking and is normally held in the Autumn to pre-empt Germany’s October Beerfest…
Europe’s annual drinks festival moves to Boston
Europe’s greatest export to promote the art of strong drinking opens next week in one of America’s oldest cities, Boston. SIBOS, an acronym for Standing In Buckets Of Slop, was created by the Belgians as a way to promote wine and beer drinking and is normally held in the Autumn to pre-empt Germany’s October Beerfest…
Europe’s annual drinks festival moves to Boston
Europe’s greatest export to promote the art of strong drinking opens next week in one of America’s oldest cities, Boston. SIBOS, an acronym for Standing In Buckets Of Slop, was created by the Belgians as a way to promote wine and beer drinking and is normally held in the Autumn to pre-empt Germany’s October Beerfest…
FX trading breaks the three trillion dollars a day mark
In a no turn-up for the books there then announcement, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) released figures this week that show that the world is trading over $3 trillion a day in foreign exchange (FX) instruments in 2007. These are the results of the three-yearly survey the BIS performs with the Central Banks around…
FX trading breaks the three trillion dollars a day mark
In a no turn-up for the books there then announcement, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) released figures this week that show that the world is trading over $3 trillion a day in foreign exchange (FX) instruments in 2007. These are the results of the three-yearly survey the BIS performs with the Central Banks around…
Chip and PIN five years from now
So I finally sussed out a way to make my long-term vision of sticking chips inside people for payments a reality through a medium-term transition away from my short-term loathing for Chip & PIN. This will be achieved as we strip things back to the basics. For example, look at any credit card today and…
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