It’s a funny old world. One minute we’re all talking about the great European plan, the Lisbon agenda, the Directives are rolled out, SEPA and MTFs are spawned, the level playing field of the Eurozone is harmonised and so on and so forth. The next is OMG, it’s all doom and gloom. What about Greece?…
I was preparing a presentation last week to deliver in Spain that had the sexy title: “Challenges for European banks in a crisis and post-crisis environment.” It wasn’t a title I chose, but led to me creating an amalgam of many different threads of thinking, some of which you will recognise if you follow this…
I got a nice email from mortgage rates today, with the following opening: The housing boom helped the economy dramatically, however as the boom came to a crash in 2006, things took a swift turn into economic gloom and doom, bringing it to the economic crash still fresh in everyone’s memories. We created an infographic…
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Fancy a tongue twister? Howsabout bankers big bonuses bashed by broadcasters but better being bashed by bank bosses. Nah. Doesn't quite work as well as six swans swimming, swim swans swim, six swans swam, well swum swans, but it almost works. What's all this about? Well, Bloomberg released the latest news on bankers' bonuses this…
I love that phrase: “the elephant in the room”. It just conjures up this image of everyone sitting and not realising there’s a great big grey beast with a trunk sitting behind their chair. Photo source: Venture Beat Of course, that’s the image it’s meant to conjure but what is the elephant in the room…
And so another SIBOS comes to an end. This year, I’m quite pleased as it’s been a challenging SIBOS. The challenge was getting to it, as the hotels were all over Amsterdam and the shuttle buses were about as reliable as a politician’s policies. No complaints however, as the agenda ticked all the boxes I…
So the final SIBOS session just finished with the excellent thoughts of Paul Saffo of Stanford University, and a co-found of the Long Now, at the closing plenary keynote. Paul covered lots of good stuff, and here’s an interpretative summary: We seem to be using ever more powerful technological tools in the pursuit of ever…
