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I am glad to see someone takes me seriously. Amir from Austrolabe took my suggestion on a Google Maps mash-up and ran with it. The result can be seen here. He has taken up to nine news feeds and the map then takes a pretty …

So yesterday we had Alan Greenspan in the morning at the BAI Retail Delivery Show.    Caesar’s Palace if they were put in the ring together so I guess they don’t like each other very much. Forbes, who is chairing Rudy Giuliani’s campaign for the …

So yesterday we had Alan Greenspan in the morning at the BAI Retail Delivery Show.    Caesar’s Palace if they were put in the ring together so I guess they don’t like each other very much. Forbes, who is chairing Rudy Giuliani’s campaign for the …

So yesterday we had Alan Greenspan in the morning at the BAI Retail Delivery Show.    Caesar’s Palace if they were put in the ring together so I guess they don’t like each other very much. Forbes, who is chairing Rudy Giuliani’s campaign for the …

Fascinating report in today’s Forbes around social networks being easy fodder for hackers and therefore criminals.  The firms at stake include everyone from Google through Facebook, and it is all due to the fact that the more open these communities become for developers to provide …

Fascinating report in today’s Forbes around social networks being easy fodder for hackers and therefore criminals.  The firms at stake include everyone from Google through Facebook, and it is all due to the fact that the more open these communities become for developers to provide …

Two of the keynotes at this year’s BAI Retail Delivery Show are Bob Geldof and Alan Greenspan.  Bob Geldof, the liberating freedom fighter for justice for Africa, wiping out third world poverty and forcing politicians and bankers to give him their f***ing money, whose six-figure …

Two of the keynotes at this year’s BAI Retail Delivery Show are Bob Geldof and Alan Greenspan.  Bob Geldof, the liberating freedom fighter for justice for Africa, wiping out third world poverty and forcing politicians and bankers to give him their f***ing money, whose six-figure …

Two of the keynotes at this year’s BAI Retail Delivery Show are Bob Geldof and Alan Greenspan.  Bob Geldof, the liberating freedom fighter for justice for Africa, wiping out third world poverty and forcing politicians and bankers to give him their f***ing money, whose six-figure …

Two of the keynotes at this year’s BAI Retail Delivery Show are Bob Geldof and Alan Greenspan.  Bob Geldof, the liberating freedom fighter for justice for Africa, wiping out third world poverty and forcing politicians and bankers to give him their f***ing money, whose six-figure …

As many know, I’m a great fan of science fiction and the future.  So I get an email today from Forbes where Arthur C. Clarke has given his vision of 2500 A.D.  It’s an interesting story, not a new one in some ways, about the …

  So this week I’m in Las Vegas, land of Elvis Presley impersonators.  Funnily enough, it’s a line I use in many presentations.  What line you ask?  Well, it kinda goes: "Hi, I’m Chris Skinner.  I’m not an analyst as analysts tend to talk in …

  So this week I’m in Las Vegas, land of Elvis Presley impersonators.  Funnily enough, it’s a line I use in many presentations.  What line you ask?  Well, it kinda goes: "Hi, I’m Chris Skinner.  I’m not an analyst as analysts tend to talk in …

  So this week I’m in Las Vegas, land of Elvis Presley impersonators.  Funnily enough, it’s a line I use in many presentations.  What line you ask?  Well, it kinda goes: "Hi, I’m Chris Skinner.  I’m not an analyst as analysts tend to talk in …

When I first saw Google Maps I thought at the time this would be a good thing for me and my kids to discuss the news, where everything was and what is going on where. What is happening now is to cut me out of …

When I first saw Google Maps I thought at the time this would be a good thing for me and my kids to discuss the news, where everything was and what is going on where. What is happening now is to cut me out of …

I am gradually coming to a general rule on actually reading the speeches published by the BIS – the less interesting the title is, the more likely it is that the speech is actually worth reading. This one "Some thoughts on securitization and financial turbulences" …

I am gradually coming to a general rule on actually reading the speeches published by the BIS – the less interesting the title is, the more likely it is that the speech is actually worth reading. This one "Some thoughts on securitization and financial turbulences" …

I am gradually coming to a general rule on actually reading the speeches published by the BIS – the less interesting the title is, the more likely it is that the speech is actually worth reading. This one "Some thoughts on securitization and financial turbulences" …

In the last of a risk-focused week of blog entries, I thought it worth talking about virtual worlds.  Now, we talk a lot about virtual worlds these days, after the hype cycle of Second Life and not forgetting the other worlds of Entropia, There, World …

Another subject that regularly crops up in my blog is whether banks can be innovative when they are risk averse.  My contention is that banks never lead, they only follow.  As a result, they never innovate because they never create anything.  Now I know some …

Share trading on the LSE apparently went wacky today with the wrong prices appearing and showing data higher on the day when today’s session has been lower.  Maybe it’s related to the new systems, MiFID, algo’s and hedge funds … or maybe it’s because banks …

Building on yesterday’s theme around identity, banks have a major dilemma (as do all financial firms) and it’s all to do with trust. Banks trade on trust and yet how far can we trust them and how far can they trust us?  Banks don’t trust …

I’ve blogged a few times about identity theft and its issues, but it only came home to me how easy such theft can be last week.  My challenge was related to my ageing in-laws who needed to close down a remortgage with their bank but, …

I’ve blogged a few times about identity theft and its issues, but it only came home to me how easy such theft can be last week.  My challenge was related to my ageing in-laws who needed to close down a remortgage with their bank but, …