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Excellent Debate on P2P Lending across Blogs

Colin Henderson

If you are interested, there is an excellent debate on P2P Lending going on over a few blogs now. The general theme is whether P2P Lending (otherwise known as Social Lending) will make a difference to Banks. It began here with this post at Zopa. The problem is that unlike so many other far healthier industries, the banks have no effective competition. Microsoft is kept in check by Apple and increasingly Google. Warner, EMI and Sony are battling it out with the digital download phenomena. Tesco has to watch out for Sainsburys, M&S and Waitrose. Even the BBC has to … Continue reading Excellent Debate on P2P Lending across Blogs

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Will Banks do social media?

Colin Henderson

One of the nice things about blogging is that you get to pick on friends as an example, so here goes with James. This is the comment I left on his post which rightly questions the validity of social media for banks as a marketing tactic. I wanted to make some additional comments, and they follow, and I REALLY look forward to Ron’s views. Why Banks won’t do social media | Bankervision James – couldn’t disagree more – message here from the echo chamber. This is social media. Here is why banks (that survive) will do social media. I picked … Continue reading Will Banks do social media?

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My “email for Bankers” system

Colin Henderson

Every Banker needs to read James post here. This particular paragraph resonated for me, having lived this life for years, and now being in a position to re-orchestrate my day according to my schedule. I have some suggestions …. the back to back meeting day is the death of effectiveness. BankerVision: Email bankrupt A cultural oddity of the bank is that we do back-to-back meetings, probably most days. So our email keeps piling up, and so many of us have resorted to fitting email processing into odd slots of the day. I have some cures for this ailment, before you … Continue reading My “email for Bankers” system