Showing posts with label Finance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Finance. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Bank Recapitalisation ... Pirate Style

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After much ado, the European Union seems to have been badgered into emergency action in order to re-capitalise the banking system due to its...
Monday, March 23, 2009

Curiosity ....

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I'm curious. What legislation is there to prevent a bank ( or any financial entity ) with two regional business units ( acting as indepe...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

What a Lehman ...

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According to today's announcement by Barclays Capital, ten thousand Lehman employees plus the business they created is worth $250 milli...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Sound advice ...

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I'm a great fan of Dennis Howlett and his no nonsense approach to finance and IT. In his lastest post he talks about a number of practi...
Monday, April 21, 2008

U.S. vs us ...

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In some European technical circles, the U.K. is sometimes considered not relevant to Europe and just a poor cousin of America. This poor co...
Friday, February 29, 2008

Now what have we got here then?

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Last night on Question Time, the fracas about the speaker of the house, Michael Martin, was raised. Michael has been claiming expenses (app...
Thursday, February 28, 2008

Every trough-full helps ...

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Over 3 million children live in poverty in the UK. The government plans to cut this by 50% by 2010, however it needs an extra £3.4bn to do ...
Saturday, September 22, 2007

Safe as houses

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Any chance the Bank of England can loan me £1 million (at five points above EURIBOR) to bet on Chelsea winning the treble (in my book a hig...
Thursday, September 20, 2007

How banking works ...

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I thought I'd explain the current banking crisis in plain English. It works like this ... People (who happen to be tax payers) save mon...
Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Whooosh ....

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Over the last few months there seems to be lots of good news coming through on the VC / Entrepreneurial front in the Hi-Tech market in and a...

To boldly go ....

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Just heard the great news that Dopplr has received early stage financing. This is fabulous news - congratulations.
Friday, August 31, 2007

A lunchtime interlude

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Before I get stated on a discussion of the stack, I'd like to talk about the pleasant lunch I had today with a friend who is a research ...
Saturday, August 11, 2007

36 hours to kick start your new venture.

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For all those budding captains of industry out there, you have a mere 36 hours to submit your application to Seedcamp. Saul has been doing s...

Commoditisation and web 2.0 .... Worth Part VI

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The process of commoditisation is simply the movement between the novel, rare and new to the common, ubiquitous and necessary. As such the ...
Friday, August 10, 2007

My personal blueprint .... Worth Part V

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The general blueprint I use when dealing with such issues is as follows. First, I divide IT projects into three categories - CA , Transition...
Wednesday, August 08, 2007

The ROI syndrome .... Worth Part I

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I haven't posted for a bit, so I thought I'd post some personal and somewhat unpolished views on worth, utility, web 2.0 and why it...
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Oink Oink ...

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I was reading this petition on abolishing inheritance tax . It's not one that I agree with, seeing that inheritance tax has an important...
Monday, March 12, 2007

Less bang for your bucks....

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According to the Independent , Peter Ayliffe, CEO of Visa said:- "by 2012, using credit and debit cards should be cheaper and more conv...
Monday, February 26, 2007

Got a good idea?

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Just picked this up from Saul Klein that he is organising an open coffee meetup on the 1st March 2007 for investors & entrepreneurs. I...
Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Worth based development

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Butler Group's master class was better than I hoped for. Tim Jennings and Martin Butler gave some interesting presentations on IT value,...