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I promise to stop doing this soon but after seeing the inspiration of Monty Python earlier this week, and how it energised our community, I thought I would try one more before moving on.  Today, it’s a bed-time story for all of you bankers and technologists out there who are finding it hard to get…

I promise to stop doing this soon but after seeing the inspiration of Monty Python earlier this week, and how it energised our community, I thought I would try one more before moving on.  Today, it’s a bed-time story for all of you bankers and technologists out there who are finding it hard to get…

I dedicate today’s blog to all those people who remember Monty Python’s Parrot sketch with affection. The scene begins with a customer entering a bank. Customer: “I wish to make a complaint.” Teller: “We’re closing for lunch.” Customer: “Never mind that, I wish to complain about this account what I opened not half an hour…

Having seen markets rupture over the past few weeks, it’s no wonder that Chi-X is seeing more business coming through, but a quarter of FTSE 100 trading seems pretty steep.  That’s what Chi-X claim as peak on 20th August 2008, 22.36% market share and 28.28% of market ratio of the FTSE 100.  Pretty impressive. One…

Having seen markets rupture over the past few weeks, it’s no wonder that Chi-X is seeing more business coming through, but a quarter of FTSE 100 trading seems pretty steep.  That’s what Chi-X claim as peak on 20th August 2008, 22.36% market share and 28.28% of market ratio of the FTSE 100.  Pretty impressive. One…

There are lots of jokes about banking going around this week, but the one that made me laugh out loud was this cartoon in the Sunday Times by Nick Newman:

Reading the paper’s over the weekend, a few stories catch my eye, especially the story of new MBA graduate Chuck Casano, the man who nearly worked in banking. Lucky old Chuck has almost had six jobs this year. Read more …

I was going to hold back and post these tomorrow, but they are too priceless.  Last night’s Saturday NIght Live on NBC USA has two great sketches.  The first is about the bailout vote: The second is a mickey-take on the Palin v Biden presidential debate. It restores my faith in America that they still…

This is my last rant for the week, I promise.  After all, it seems strange to be blogging to a readership of bankers and then be horrible about y’all, but I thought I had to share with you the customer’s view, and their view is that banks are shooting themselves in the foot. It’s a…

We are almost a month away from the US elections.  You may wonder why I’m interested in that, but it is because it will affect all of us.  A lot.  As demonstrated by the dialogue going on right now about the banking system. So, in the interests of the election, I received some very funny…