Alan Goodrich

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Regional Sales Manager

ERI

Member since

12 May 2003

Location

Luxembourg

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Sales and business development in a territory covering 16 countries.

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A combination of business development skills, financial services industry knowledge and experience as well as information technology expertise, spanning some 30 years.

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EUR 33m to reinvent the wheel...

Arguably this is not a blog, as it has been too long since my last missive - perhaps on this occasion it should be categorized as a periodic rant in disbelief at human ability not to learn from others’ mistakes? In this month’s issue of IBS Publishing (Issue 18.9, June 09) a lead article described a project at Caja Madrid, the fourth largest saving...

15 June 2009 Innovation in Financial Services

SCARY MOVIE... prepare to SCREAM!

Seriously, those of faint disposition should have a cushion handy to hide behind! How often do we read about and debate the moral dilemma of mere mortals "playing God" in areas such as medicine, e.g. stem cell research, and physics, e.g. creating anti-matter – but do we ever have that debate in financial services? On the publicly availabl...

01 February 2008 Trends in Financial Services

Anyone got 1 Euro to spare..?

On 5th March 1995 Dutch banking and insurance group ING bought Barings for £1 and assumed liabilities of over $600m. According to some McKinsey research presented by Mark Lawrence at a PRMIA event I attended in London on 18th December 2006, based on a sample of more than 350 operational loss events, normalized for industry performance, the decline ...

28 January 2008 Trends in Financial Services

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Apple iPad Executive Summary

No built in camera or mic!?! Big mistake... if one is going to carry an iPad around then presumably it is instead of a netbook... so one wants to be able to do video calls using skype, etc...

29 Jan 2010 09:07 Read comment

Barclays launches online remittance service to India

When are Barclays going to put in place the relatively simple technology to allow their customers to make on-line SEPA credit transfers to the EUR accounts of family and friends in any bank all over Europe!!

01 Dec 2008 11:45 Read comment

Forcing The Banks To Lend Part 2

Absolutely! Maybe people realise the mess we are in is due to years of borrowing too much and just don't want to borrow any more! Its not that the banks don't want to lend, or need to be forced to lend - we simply, and sensibly, don't want to borrow...

27 Nov 2008 18:17 Read comment

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