What does recovery mean for Banks?


Banks are at the centre of the economy.  Business and consumers conduct their day to day business using money and they do this through banks.  Stating the obvious you may say?  This is why I study the economy so closely and try to understand how it will look in the future, because that has a direct relation to how banks will look in that future. We are in a crisis of debt.  It is a debt crisis because consumers and businesses are over-leveraged.  Their debt is too high relative to todays asset values.  Asset values have decreased by 25 – … Continue reading What does recovery mean for Banks?

FinovateStartup – 1


Caught  a few of the participants this morning and as we wait for the next few rapid fire presentations, some highlights.  Note there are 350 in the audience: Lending Club: highlighted some lender functionality, paricularly in the secondary market showed the ability of lenders to compare their returns to other lenders Tempo Debit Card; decoupled debit card sign up online, with 90% approval success offers rewards on your debit card aim to to be the MBNA of debit cards Wesabe: always my favourite – Gabe showed off the new web interface highlighted accounts, and discussions ability to dig deeper aggregate … Continue reading FinovateStartup – 1