• Private Equity Works on Its Image Problem

    Updated: 2012-01-31 15:03:56
    Bloomberg out with an interesting story about how private equity firms are buying single family homes at foreclosure to rent out. It surprises me that there is real interest in what remains a relatively small scale, highly heterogeneous asset. Previous...

  • Things worth reading: 31st January 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-31 08:03:50

  • Things worth reading: 30th January 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-30 07:59:42

  • The Finanser's Week: 23rd January - 29th January 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-29 08:48:00

  • Vee Haf Vays Uf Making You Pay!

    Updated: 2012-01-28 15:41:12
    Anna Gelpern's Gunboat Diplomacy post pretty much sums out the leaked German term sheet on Greece. I would only note one other thing--the highly idiosyncratic use of "absolute priority." The Germans seem to have taken the language of Chapter 11...

  • How to deal with an insolvent bank

    Updated: 2012-01-27 10:11:05

  • Things worth reading: 27th January 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-27 07:48:15

  • Who the hell needs biometrics in banking?

    Updated: 2012-01-26 10:45:00

  • Things worth reading: 26th January 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-26 10:44:54

  • Break up Bank of America?

    Updated: 2012-01-25 23:31:20
    Steve's title was subtle, so in case anyone missed it, here are the materials on Public Citizen's website. The petition calls on the Federal Reserve and the Financial Stability Oversight Commission to use their authority under Dodd-Frank to break up...

  • And Now Featuring Melissa Jacoby

    Updated: 2012-01-25 20:46:14
    On behalf of all the Credit Slips bloggers, it is my pleasure to announce the permanent return of Professor Melissa Jacoby as one of our "Occasionals." For the past several weeks, she had doing some guest posts, but we are...

  • Caught up on this line again

    Updated: 2012-01-25 19:28:36
    Bank of America, OLA, and the problems of oversized financial institutions, up now on Dealbook.

  • Wipe out market makers = best execution

    Updated: 2012-01-25 09:09:00

  • Things worth reading: 25th January 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-25 08:04:55

  • When Credit Card ID Checks Go Awry

    Updated: 2012-01-24 17:12:42
    I’ve always had mixed feelings regarding handing over my ID to a merchant when paying by credit card. On one hand it’s great that the merchant is attempting to protect its business and you from fraud. On the other hand you are handing over your personal information to a complete stranger. I was shopping last week [...]

  • Casino capitalism: only for those who can afford the chips

    Updated: 2012-01-24 08:23:00

  • Things worth reading: 24th January 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-24 06:21:47

  • The future of capitalism

    Updated: 2012-01-23 07:51:30

  • Things worth reading: 23rd January 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-23 07:32:22

  • The Finanser's Week: 16th January - 22nd January 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-22 07:18:00

  • When more regulation is good.

    Updated: 2012-01-21 02:04:48
    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is going to examine payday lenders and I think this is a good thing for banks. Approximately 60 million adults reside in these households. The FDIC estimates that 9 million household are unbanked. Another 21 million are underbanked, adding to 30 million households or about a quarter of the [...]

  • Videoconferencing in Retail Banking: Is BMO’s move a Harbinger for More to Come?

    Updated: 2012-01-20 16:25:31
    This week, BMO announced its rollout of Cisco Tandberg desktop video conferencing terminals to 50 of its 1,600 branches in the US and Canada. The terminals are for use by the bank’s financial planners and small business specialists. The idea is simple: more efficiently and effectively deploy SMEs across BMO’s sprawling retail banking geographic footprint. [...]

  • Bank IT Spending and Trends: What Does 2012 Look Like?

    Updated: 2012-01-20 14:17:46
    The new year brings lots of questions, planning and decision making. IT spending is tied directly to these elements, and as in past years, we have been receiving a truckload of IT spending questions. After a rocky few years folks are curious as to if the figures are on the uptick in 2012. The short [...]

  • Things worth reading: 20th January 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-20 08:00:04

  • How to create a banking strategy

    Updated: 2012-01-19 10:21:21

  • Things worth reading: 19th January 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-19 07:15:49

  • Applications Open for the $50K Innotribe Startup Challenge

    Updated: 2012-01-13 17:50:01
    I’ve recently agreed to serve as a judge for the 2012 Innotribe Startup Challenge. The event provides an opportunity for FinTech and Financial Service startups and innovators to meet potential investors, customers and partners from financial institutions and FinTech investors. See the bottom of this post for info on how to receive an invite to [...]

  • A Very Green Green Paper?

    Updated: 2012-01-13 09:13:14
    This week the European Commission released its Green Paper “Towards an integrated European market for card, internet and mobile payments”. Strangely the site that lists all green papers doesn’t (yet) have it. For a copy, see this story here. At a high level there is perhaps nothing surprising in the paper, as many of the themes [...]

  • The New EC Green Paper: Missed Opportunities?

    Updated: 2012-01-13 00:23:35
    It was interesting to read the European Commission’s Green Paper “Towards an integrated European market for card, internet and mobile payments” published a couple of days ago. My colleague Gareth has already provided some insightful commentary in his blog below, and I wanted to add a few further points. My first reaction was to applaud the Commission for recognising the [...]

  • Two Kodak Moments to Consider

    Updated: 2012-01-05 17:57:19
    Few global brands have created the equity of Kodak. For decades, Kodak was synonymous with family memories and led the world in intellectual capital related to imaging – in both chemical and digital realms. Kodak is a household name if there ever was one. For example, the colloquialism, “Kodak Moment”, refers to a rare, one [...]

  • 2.16.12: Celent Banking Webinar: Corporate Mobile Banking: Revolutionizing Cash Management

    Updated: 2012-01-04 21:27:58
    Jacob Jegher, Senior Analyst, Celent’s Banking Group This event is free to attend for Celent clients, flex-plan clients, and the media. Non-clients can attend for a fee of $195. If you are unsure of your client status, please contact Steve Nawrocki at 617.262.3128 or snawrocki@celent.com. Please click here for more information.

  • Celent Banking Blog - 2011 in Review

    Updated: 2012-01-04 21:22:56
    Happy new year! I thought it would be fun to recap 2011 by calling out the top 10 posts on our blog from 2011. The following list is based on total number of unique visits to each of these posts. Some of these are bang on as far as topic interest goes others may be surprising. [...]

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