Paulson on Bloomberg TV Today
The folks at Bloomberg have alerted me that Paulson will be on Bloomberg TV today: In an exclusive interview as he prepares to leave office, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson responds to the latest jobs...
View ArticleRecession Stat: More Google Searches for "coupons" than for "Britney Spears"
(via Freakonomics) The latest recession indicator: more people are searching Google for "coupons" than for "Britney Spears." And it's not that Britney is getting less popular.
View ArticleCorporate Complexity (an example)
The latest post at the Wells Fargo-Wachovia merger blog hints at the complexity involved in integrating the two banks' services, technology, and products. Let alone the people + organizational...
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The Future of Finance (The Economist)
This week's Economist includes a Special Report on The Future of Finance (and it's not pretty): Contents: The collapse of finance Why is finance so unstable? Fallible mathematical models When markets...
View ArticleTrue Life Bad Bank Inspires Movie (As Usual Truth is Stranger than Fiction)
In honor of the Oscars this evening, a post on banking and the movies. Last week the film The International opened, featuring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts. The film is about evil, murderous bankers – the...
View ArticleSmall Businesses Closing Without Access to Credit (Warning: Entrepreneurial...
Today at The Huffington Post Tim Berry shares the results of a survey conducted last week to explore the availability of business credit via bank loans, commercial credit, SBA loans, etc. The results...
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A Guide to the Bank Nationalization Debate
Amid increased government ownership of Citibank, persistent rumors that BofA is next, and announcement of the Obama administration’s budget, there has been increasingly loud debate over bank...
View ArticleOh, You Make Me Want to Shout!
I‘ve been trying to enjoy the little culture skirmish that surfaced last week as media watchdog Jon Stewart of the Comedy Central took comedian Jim Cramer of CNBC to task for failing to warn the public...
View ArticleRevisiting (Rehashing?) the Credit Crisis
I spent most of 2008 and early 2009 completely obsessed with the credit crisis (evidenced by this index of the best crisis coverage I created just over a year ago). Reading this Andrew Ross Sorkin...
View ArticlePresident Clinton Addresses the 2010 Prepaid Expo
Glenbrook’s Bryan Derman is in Las Vegas for the 2010 Prepaid Expo. Clearly, you know that an industry has “arrived” when it is able to attract (and afford!) a former U.S. President to speak at its...
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EMV, Data Breaches, HCE and the Pace of Change in Payments
One of the pleasures of joining Glenbrook has been getting to know what and how the other Glebrookers think about what’s happening in the payments industry. We talk a lot at Glenbrook. Over iChat,...
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Full SEPA is Here, At Last
This week, we are delighted to feature a post by Manfred Schuck, a payments consultant from Frankfurt. Manfred will co-lead with Elizabeth McQuerry our upcoming Payments in Europe Insight workshop to...
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SEPA for Cards – The New Ballgame
We are delighted to feature another post by Manfred Schuck, a terrific payments consultant from Frankfurt, who will co-lead with Elizabeth McQuerry our upcoming Payments in Europe Insight workshop to...
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