I was recently interviewd by Ben Leis of Youth Trends Report, and reproduce the discussion here for posterity: Ben Leis: Growing up, learning to save money was simple and fun with things like piggy banks but over time financial education becomes more complicated. How can the financial education process be improved? Chris Skinner: Parents teach…
Jeffry Pilcher at the Financial Brand ran an interesting survey this month to see how US banker’s are getting on with online marketing. Most of the banks surveyed were smaller credit unions, although 49 retail banks took part too. 64 of the 154 participants had $1 billion in assets or more, whilst 66 had less…
I’ve read the joke before, but it’s nice to hear it delivered with Ozzie class by Kerry O’Keefe (Australian cricket commentator): Oh yes, if you can’t play this track, then click here to read the joke. Anyways, this goes up there with classic cricket commentary moments such as the classic line from the late Brian…
Financier Worldwide recently ran a review of the European stress tests, quoting yours truly a bit. Therefore, I thought it worth republishing here, and can recommend the magazine if you're not already a subscriber: Tested But Not Tried, Europe’s Banks Deemed To Be Safe Muazzin Mehrban, September 2010 Like their counterparts across the Atlantic, European…
A press release landed on my desk the other day with the headline: “Identify the movers and shakers in the financial services industry”. It had been released by a new company called PeerIndex. Who or what is PeerIndex? They describe themselves as: “the first company to provide a realistic individual ranking of social authority across…
Friend of the Club and Business Correspondent with the Economist, David Shirreff, has recently written the words to a comedic romp around the financial crisis called "Broke Britannia: the Musical". It gets its world premiere tomorrow night in Barnes, before magically transporting itself to Edinburgh next week for the Fringe Festival. Details below: Broke Britannia!…
Trading goes back to Ancient Sumeria, but today's trading on the world's stock markets can probably be attributed to a particular place in London. OK, as a Brit I would say that but, as I walk around London, I'm constantly amazed by the things you see. For example, was this road sign the inspiration for…
Sorry about that. Really depressed meself with all that doom and gloom about double dip recessions and, for regular blog readers, you know that I like to take both extremes in an argument so here are 10 reasons why the double dip won’t happen: 1 Double dip implies a global second recessionary wave, but this…
