278 Results from 2008, /retail
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
Following on from Paul Penrose's earlier blog about the $5 million beleagured E Trade spent on their Super Bowl Ad, the WSJ today, shows just what that amount of money looks like. Really, a vomiting baby? Click here to see.
04 February 2008 /retail
Alan Goodrich Regional Sales Manager at ERI
Just when you thought the subject had safely swam off quietly into deeper waters, frightened off by crazed French bankers; the debate resurfaces thanks to those nice analysts at Celent.
28 January 2008 /retail Trends in Financial Services
Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional
Biff!! Bang!! Kerplunk!! -..... These would be annotations if a comic book artist were to draw a strip on last week's events in the financial markets. The industry now looks like how the Roman Army is shown after an encounter with Asterix and Obelix in the famous comic series! We had hardly got over our chills over 'Black Tuesday' - when we have a...
26 January 2008 /regulation /retail
Retired Member
An opinion piece in the International Herald Tribune drew my attention to a report published by The World Bank in mid-Dec 2007. The study measured the relative size of 146 economies (for the year 2005) using the 'purchasing power parity' (PPP) method. The World Bank study had concluded that the economies of India & China were about 40% smal...
22 January 2008 /retail
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
The new year has barely started and we already have an odds-on favourite to win our 2008 idiot of the year award. Step forward Jeremy Clarkson, renowned UK celebrity petrol-head and all-round motormouth. In his weekly column for red-top tabloid the Sun, Clarkson rashly publicised his bank account number and sort code in a dimwitted effort to prove...
07 January 2008 /retail Whatever...
Your chief executive took home nearly $100 million in 2006 and you run a fleet of 20-odd corporate jets to ferry board directors to important business meetings and former executives to important Red Sox baseball games. But with the credit squeeze tightening it’s time to start looking at expense management. Where to begin? Employee perks are the ob...
07 January 2008 /retail /wholesale Whatever...
The onset of the New Year gets me thinking on what are the likely fads and buzz words in 2008. 2007 has already enriched our vocabulary with 'sub prime' , 'Ninja loans' and other such terms that a Credit dog's delight. Come to think of it, some of the fads like mobile payments have been around for some time now! I came across a report by Javelin...
07 January 2008 /regulation /retail
We’ve seen plenty of posts on this community that play with the idea of virtual currencies, the eradication of paper-based cheques and the ultimate demise of hard cash. The emergence of a truly digital economy has been a favourite topic of commentators and futurists since the first stirrings of business interest in the Internet in the mid-1990s. ...
02 January 2008 /payments /retail Trends in Financial Services
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