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Biggest Banking Brands

Business Management Middle East has published a fantastic infographic that takes the Brand Finance's review of the Top 500 Financial Brands globally. Business Management Middle East then compares the bank brand values worldwide by region (doubleclick to enlarge): Superb stuff! * The Finanser is sponsored by VocaLink and Cisco: For details of sponsorship email us

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The Corporate Executive Board Acquires TowerGroup

Wow!  This one almost slipped under my radar but, as I was heavily involved in establishing TowerGroup Europe, it should be noted.  The Corporate Executive Board (CEB) acquired TowerGroup last week.  That's interesting as, when I worked with TowerGroup they were owned by Reuters.  Reuters sold them to MasterCard and now MasterCard have sold them…

Sir Victor Blank interviewed about leaving Lloyds

The big coup in this month’s Management Today (MT) is an interview with the exiting Chairman of Lloyds Banking Group, Sir Victor Blank, who will be replaced by former Citibank Chairman, Sir Win Bischoff at the end of the year. The editorial of MT starts by saying: “nobody, least of all Sir Victor Blank, wants…

Sir Victor Blank interviewed about leaving Lloyds

The big coup in this month’s Management Today (MT) is an interview with the exiting Chairman of Lloyds Banking Group, Sir Victor Blank, who will be replaced by former Citibank Chairman, Sir Win Bischoff at the end of the year. The editorial of MT starts by saying: “nobody, least of all Sir Victor Blank, wants…

Collective noun for economists? A confusion!

Just stumbled across Yoram Bauman, the Stand Up Economist, who is obviously a chap who believes in the power of economic thinking as he has a Ph.d. in Economics. His ten principles of economic theory are quite fascinating in fact. He bases his principles on Greg Mankiw’s, a professor of economics at Harvard University,who states…

Collective noun for economists? A confusion!

Just stumbled across Yoram Bauman, the Stand Up Economist, who is obviously a chap who believes in the power of economic thinking as he has a Ph.d. in Economics. His ten principles of economic theory are quite fascinating in fact. He bases his principles on Greg Mankiw’s, a professor of economics at Harvard University,who states…

American Banks: Two Good, Two Bad

This week, it's Q3 results time for US banks and the story appears to be one of two good banks and two bad banks. The good are JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, who have both delivered stonking results. The bad are, you guessed it, Bank of America and Citi who are both struggling with domestic credit…

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Is ‘poor’ acceptable as the industry average?

I wrote yesterday's blog about Mr. Grump versus Mr. Smiley bank because someone recently said to me: "Chris, you seem so angry …"  It wasn't a reference to my blog content but to the way my face was purple with steam coming out of my ears because I'm not angry … I'm bloody livid! And…

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Is ‘poor’ acceptable as the industry average?

I wrote yesterday's blog about Mr. Grump versus Mr. Smiley bank because someone recently said to me: "Chris, you seem so angry …"  It wasn't a reference to my blog content but to the way my face was purple with steam coming out of my ears because I'm not angry … I'm bloody livid! And…

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Not Powered by NatWest

I blogged in positive terms recently about Royal Bank of Scotland and the 'Powered by NatWest' partnership it had created as a mobile payments processor for O2. Just as this landmark partnership was created, RBS decided to close down their internal mobile payments team. So much for a commitment to the future and the most…

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