Merry Christmas or Season’s Greetings, depending upon your personal preference. To finish 2007, I thought I’d share with you a few of my nice little collection of Christmas ecards: SWIFT Eiger Systems LogicaCMG Sybase Diamond Consultants Vocalink If I missed you out, it’s either because: (a) you sent me a real card, in which case…
I’ve been watching eBay this week as the London Evening Standard has been running a nice little charity auction in there for Plan UK, an international humanitarian, child centred development organisation who work in 46 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Two of the prizes that particularly intrigued me were: (1) a…
I’ve been watching eBay this week as the London Evening Standard has been running a nice little charity auction in there for Plan UK, an international humanitarian, child centred development organisation who work in 46 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Two of the prizes that particularly intrigued me were: (1) a…
This is my final week of blogging for 2007, and so I thought I’d spend it looking back over the year. Tomorrow and the rest of the week, I’ll focus upon retail and investment banking and payments. Today, I thought I’d start with a slow burn with the prediction that, unless they urgently change their…
This is my final week of blogging for 2007, and so I thought I’d spend it looking back over the year. Tomorrow and the rest of the week, I’ll focus upon retail and investment banking and payments. Today, I thought I’d start with a slow burn with the prediction that, unless they urgently change their…
This is my final week of blogging for 2007, and so I thought I’d spend it looking back over the year. Tomorrow and the rest of the week, I’ll focus upon retail and investment banking and payments. Today, I thought I’d start with a slow burn with the prediction that, unless they urgently change their…
The news yesterday that the ECB, Fed and Bank of England were working together to release $110 billion of funds to buck up the markets for end of year and give the banking system confidence again was great. Hopefully, this will work and we all will live happily ever after … although the markets don’t…
The news yesterday that the ECB, Fed and Bank of England were working together to release $110 billion of funds to buck up the markets for end of year and give the banking system confidence again was great. Hopefully, this will work and we all will live happily ever after … although the markets don’t…
I got an email from BNET, the management website, with the title "8 Million Business People at Risk from Dreaded New Ailment", which made me open it, as you have here. The actual news item was all about people who "work at a company where Blackberries are standard perks? Never mind the tired debate over…
I got an email from BNET, the management website, with the title "8 Million Business People at Risk from Dreaded New Ailment", which made me open it, as you have here. The actual news item was all about people who "work at a company where Blackberries are standard perks? Never mind the tired debate over…
