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Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

The E Trade Super Bowl Ad--what were they thinking?

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.

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Alan Goodrich

Alan Goodrich Regional Sales Manager at ERI

The Retail Branch debate won't die...

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.

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Sriram Natarajan

Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional

Tales of Arabian Knights... Black is parachute colour

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...

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India as Emerging Superpower - still a long way ahead

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...

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Top Gear host left red-faced over bank ID theft stunt

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...

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

No soft soap at Bank of America

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...

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Sriram Natarajan

Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional

P2P - Power to Phishers?

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...

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Digital cash and other payment myths

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. ...

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