Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Friday, August 27th, 2010
Well this is farewell then, as I am departing Financial Sector Technology (FST) after five and a half years in charge as editor. It's been a rollercoaster journey since joining in January 2005 as the sector has gone from boom to bust, but I've thoroughly enjoyed the ride! Many things ...
Posted in General | No Comments »
Friday, August 13th, 2010
David Vine, CEO of GlobalExpense, believes that financial services companies are both missing a trick to save money on the bottom line, and failing to strategically manage their business’s second largest controllable cost, by paying scant attention to their employee expenses system. He cites the firm’s recent Employee Expenses Benchmark ...
Posted in General | No Comments »
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
More than 6,500 runners from over 400 companies, most of them banks and insurers based in the Square Mile, will run around 5km of closed-off streets tonight in the City of London. Yes, it's the Standard Chartered Great City Race again. Starting tonight at 7.15pm, with race day ambassador, Denise Lewis OBE ...
Posted in General | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
There is just one one week to vote for your favourite Information Pioneer on the Information Pioneers campaign website at http://pioneers.bcs.org. Those who haven’t yet seen the five short films that highlight the achievements of the often forgotten and unacknowledged Information Pioneers should visit the site before voting closes on ...
Posted in General, innovation | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Just a few quick thoughts on the perils of taxpayers owning major stakes in some of our biggest High Street banks ...don't worry, I'm not going over the same old ground about lack of managerial control and the like as I'm sure you've all read enough about that already. Instead, what ...
Posted in General | No Comments »
Monday, May 17th, 2010
With the Liberal Democrat MP Vince Cable now ensconced in the coalition government with the Conservative party as Business minister, with special responsibility for the banking sector, how long does the bonus culture in the City of London have left? The Cable guy famously promised to do away with the excessive ...
Posted in General | 1 Comment »
Thursday, April 29th, 2010
At last the final TV debate between the leaders of Britain's three main political parties is almost upon us, starting on the BBC this evening at 8.30pm. The subject matter this time is the economy, which should make it the most relevant of the three debates so far to the ...
Posted in General | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
The Chancellor, Alastair Darling, has said in his 2010 Budget report that he intends to ensure that everyone in the UK who wants a bank account can get one. Speaking prior to the impending general election in May, making some of his announcements quite politically motivated and necessarily subject to ...
Posted in General, post-crunch reform | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
All the hoopla around the iPad launch and what it could do to revolutionise consumer behaviour and consequently how banks, insurers and others might seek to target them for marketing purposes, has got a little bit out of hand. Yes, Apple does have an enviable record for developing products that build ...
Posted in General, New technologies, technology | No Comments »
Monday, January 25th, 2010
The American President, Barack Obama is proposing major new curbs on the activities of banks to try to prevent future financial crises. He intends to restrict the size of banks and limit riskier trading practices by re-instating a modernised version of the famous Glass-Steagall Act from the 1930s that separated ...
Posted in General, Regulation, post-crunch reform | No Comments »
