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Talking about best execution and stuff today, we got into a debate about whether banks were worried about trashing the trust of customers or were concerned about changing behaviours. My response is that banks aren’t that bothered about trashing trust of retail customers as retail customers don’t make them money. The mass deposits of itsy-bitsy…

Oliver Wyman launched a new report at Davos last week that has garnered a few headlines. Titled: “The Financial Crisis of 2015: An Avoidable History”, they suggest that although financial services executives and regulators have worked hard to design a more stable financial system, they might fail as there are other market stresses that could…

I was having yet another discussion about bonuses this week and boy, are we fed up with that discussion. Or maybe not. The reason for the maybe not is that we were talking about whether bankers being on salaried versus commission structures is better or worse as a business model, following the survey last week…

I usually ignore press releases that land in my inbox as most are not relevant for the blog … but this one intrigued me and so I thought it might interest readers too … BANKING SALARIES ON THE UP AS BONUS POOLS LOOK SET TO SHRINK An analysis by recruitment specialist Poolia of year-on-year banking…

Just as I post a nostalgic review of fifty years of tech developmetns, along comes a video that says it all about where we are today.   I was going to post  as an addednum to below but it's too good, so here's the new Intel video advert in all it's glory: HT to Jack Schofield

If you thought Lloyds Bank's ads were a bit weird and wacky … … have a look at this one from Umpqua Bank: It's quite nice and dreamy but, urm, what's the message? Community banking apparently. Ah well, I guess the dreamy sort of ads are better than just playing for laughs …    …