Social Finance - the resource list. Monetary policy for the 21st century. Twentieth Century monetary policy can be understood very simply. One can imagine that, prior to the 1980s, the marginal unit of CPI was purchased from wages. That made managing inflation difficult. In order to suppress the price level, central bankers had to reduce the supply of wages.
But reductions in aggregate wages don’t translate to smooth, universal wage cuts. For institutional reasons, attempts to restrain aggregate wages generate unemployment. Prior to the 1980s, central bankers routinely had to choose between inflation or recession. Then came the “Great Moderation”. Regular readers know that I am not a fan of the Great Moderation. Still, if Great Moderation monetary policy sucked, pre-Moderation business cycles sucked as well. It’s no good when the marginal unit of CPI is purchased from wages. Here’s my proposal. Of course we will still need investors. There are details to consider. Www.anaxago.com/contact/index/index/lang/fr. Bank to the Future - Financial Services Information - Searching Finance. By Simon Dixon Overview We are in a time like no other. Those who play the game by the new rules understand that seven highly disruptive new technologies are changing the rules of work.
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Contents. 10 Financial Innovations That Make Your Life Easier in 2012. Banking & Financial Services Technology Sydney, Australia, New Zealand. (3) Venture Capital: Who are the best VC investors in financial services startups. Www.banktech.com/management-strategies/232300804?printer_friendly=this-page. With IT budgets finally rebounding, BS&T identifies the eight trends that will shape tech spending in 2012 and determine banks' competitive positions for years to come. For the past several years, bank IT budgets generally remained flat.
The financial crisis and ensuing fallout forced belt-tightening across the industry. In 2011, however, bank IT executives finally enjoyed some breathing room thanks to some revitalized spending power. And in 2012, bank technology budgets should continue to increase, if ever so slightly. But with the economic recovery still on shaky legs, and with regulatory scrutiny more intense than ever, banks' IT investments are likely to be focused largely on driving efficiencies and complying with new requirements. Bank Systems & Technology identifies the IT trends and hot technologies that will change the game in the year ahead. Mobile banking started as a novelty, something only techies and first adopters felt comfortable using. 2. 3. 4. 1 of 2 More Insights. You cannot buy innovation. In a previous series of articles we discussed the capital Apple expends on equipment, real estate, leasehold improvements and data centers. Cost structure analysis reveals subtle shifts in strategy and the CapEx analysis demonstrates Apple’s increasing integration into its supplier network and integration into the distribution and service infrastructure that sustains its ecosystems.
Another form of investing (spending now, reaping benefits later) is the spending on research and development (R&D). Let’s have a look at Apple’s R&D expenses by quarter since Q1/2006. Apples R&D expenses as percentage of sales have been declining from almost 4% to close to 2% in the last six years as shown in the following chart: While Apple’s absolute R&D expenses have grown at an annual rate of 33% they have not kept up with the far higher sales growth rate. Apple’s R&D/sales ratio is between Dell and HP, companies which do not develop their own software or hardware. In fact, sometimes it’s nearly free. Testé Pour Vous - Banque des particuliers : le bilan de 2011. 2011 a d'abord été, dans le domaine de la banque des particuliers, l'année de la mise en œuvre d'une démarche engagée fin 2010 par l'ex-ministre de l'Economie et des Finances, Christine Lagarde. Objectif ?
Réguler les tarifs bancaires et améliorer leur visibilité. Mission accomplie ? Depuis le 1er janvier 2011, les banques doivent en tout cas présenter, en tête de leurs plaquettes tarifaires et sur leurs sites Internet, une liste de 10 tarifs standard censée faciliter la comparaison des offres par le consommateur. Depuis le 30 juin 2011, les établissements bancaires ont également pour obligation de communiquer à leurs clients le total de leurs frais bancaires à la fin de chaque mois et non plus seulement annuellement.
Une autre mesure s'adresse à la clientèle fragile : il s'agit de l'inclusion dans les offres bancaires de "forfaits sécurité", appelés également gammes de paiement alternatif au chèque (GPA) et proposés à des tarifs accessibles. Innotribe Startup Challenge 2012. The Finance 2.0 Manifesto - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org. Dear G20, It’s confusing. Should you tax bankers’ bonuses, or limit their pay? Should you nationalize banks, or let public-private partnerships bid for bad assets? Do markets need morals — or just better regulation? The answer is: all may be necessary, but none are sufficient. It’s time to reconceive finance for the 21st century.
Here’s why — and how. Where are all the customers’ yachts? Bankers have got society, communities, and depositors by the throat. Banks don’t need to be bailed out of bad debt. Finance 1.0 has the same relationship with society as Godzilla does with cities. Finance 1.0 isn’t fit for economics 2.0. Finance 1.0 is built on a long-obsolete set of organizing principles. Today’s bankers, investors, and traders will never build a better finance. It’s time to put Wall Street’s business as usual out of business. Here are nine paths to igniting the next financial revolution.
Edge funds. Macro and microcurrencies. Social banks. Fair markets. Stakeholder communities. Luv, The Investing Web Toolbox: 25 Killer Money Management Webapps | The Tip'd Blog. The Financial Services Club's Blog. Our biggest stories of the past week are ... The Age of the Password is over I saw a great but scary presentation this week from Kamran Meer, Chief IT Security Officer at Bank Alfalah, the sixth largest bank in Pakistan. Kamran began by asking the audience if they knew about the Stuxnet attack.
The Stuxnet video made the point that we live in a world where cyberattacks are becoming more and more targeted … 1,4 billion people have smartphones increasing at 44% per annum (infographic) A fantastic infographic was sent over to me today by the folks at Open Mobile Media. There's a big difference between KYC and KNOWING your customer I had a really interesting conversation with @Anthemis last week. Bankers and regulators: do you want a Red or a Blue Pill (Matrix)? I present all the time and talk about the forces of change for the future: Political, Economic, Social and Technological (PEST). Laughing at the banks and all the way to the bank? The Financial Services Club is sponsored by: Finextra Research: Latest financial technology news, analysis, jobs and features.
C'est pas mon idée ! Daily on Twitter as discussed on the 'bancaduezero' list. The BIG SHIFT to online for financial products: Google Finance research. At their annual ThinkBanking event last Thursday (Sept 9th) in Sydney, the Google Financial Services Team released their latest behavioral research supported by Global Reviews’ Customer Experience Benchmarking. The results are a shock to those expecting traditional marketing methods to strongly influence customer behavior in respect to product selection in the financial services space. Barney Pierce, the Head of Industry – Finance for Google in Australia articulated that the research “shows a fundamental shift toward the online channel dominating research for financial products and services.
A large part of which is search related activity.” Greg Muller and his team at Global Reviews who assisted with collecting the research explained that the research was conducted across Australia with a sample size of over 900 people from all walks of life – it was directed at all users of financial services products. 88% of customers research online What about the branch? Conclusions. Everything you can imagine is real. A well-educated time traveller from 1914 enters a room divided in half by a curtain. A scientist tells him that his task is to ascertain the intelligence of whoever is on the other side of the curtain by asking whatever questions he pleases. The traveller’s queries are answered by a voice with an accent that he does not recognize (twenty-first-century American English).
The woman on the other side of the curtain has an extraordinary memory. She can, without much delay, recite any passage from the Bible or Shakespeare. Her arithmetic skills are astonishing—difficult problems are solved in seconds. She is also able to speak many foreign languages, though her pronunciation is odd. Most impressive, perhaps, is her ability to describe almost any part of the Earth in great detail, as though she is viewing it from the sky. Based on this modified Turing test, our time traveller would conclude that, in the past century, the human race achieved a new level of superintelligence. 50 Awesome Social Networks for Finance Geeks | Accounting Degree. Learning about finance is so much easier when you can see first-hand what others are doing to achieve success. That’s the beauty of social networks with a focus on finance.
The following social networks offer opportunities for finance students and geeks to contribute as well as learn from others. Whether you are interested in investing, business, participating in peer-to-peer loans, or personal finance growth, the following social networks are sure to help you make connections with others in the world of finance. Investing and General Finance From learning investment strategies to staying on top of market news these social networks all have a focus on investing and general finance topics.
Zacks Investment Research. The research done with Zacks is mathematically-based and available for you to learn about markets and trends. Business and Economics Business and economics are an important segment of finance. Jigsaw. Peer-to-Peer Loans Zopa. Debt Reduction I Hate Debt. Personal Finance BillMonk. 11 Bank IT Trends for 2011 - Bank Technology News Article. 1.Chris and Barney Processing Content Regulatory compliance is always a large IT outlay, but the politics of the recovery will make tech that helps banks follow the new rules a goldmine for GRC providers. The Dodd-Frank law is just one of many regulatory changes-RESPA, Basel III and new credit and debit card rules are also on tap-requiring banks that do business in the States to collectively spend billions on data mining, account aggregation, risk management and reporting technology.
And the possibility of bank exposure to Wiki-leaks style risk will only up the ante in the months to come. The regulatory burden will lead to a boost in data integration and formatting tools, since Dodd-Frank will add more agencies that will request greater amounts of data, but do so in a manner that's not standardized among agencies. Additionally, business intelligence software that can allow a real-time view of progress will get attention. 2.Transaction Safety Escorts 3.Banks Help Those Who Help Themselves. Is Google the best candidate to create a good, customer-focused.
Slowly -- and sometimes not so slowly -- the bricks have been giving way to the clicks for the past 15 years. Plenty of formerly unassailable business models have suffered as a result. The tears flowing for these companies, however, have been few outside their own high, stony walls. Users, customers, innovators, seekers -- the majority bottom sections of the social and economic pyramids -- these are the big winners in the many wonderful effects of the Web and Internet. And I for one have the freedom, productivity, choice and empowerment to prove it.
Except in one glaring area: banking. We are by no means done on the disruption front. I have had it with the old financial processes, lack of capability, murky institutions, rips-offs, peonage fees/rates -- and especially attitudes. I have had it with credit cards, banks, mutual fund companies, PayPal, debit cards, MasterCard and Visa. Merchants hate it, users hate it. You want financial industry reform? A few good transactions. Where banks and socials can agree. I said I would respond to Venessa’s rant in a bit more detail, as she deserves a response and not just a pat on the head to say: “there, there”, which is what she implies most banking folks have done so far. Before I get into that, it’s interesting to see the reaction to yesterday’s blog entry. Most of it is that polarisation does not help which, in this context, is where you get the ‘them and us’ mentality I referred to yesterday. That is very unhelpful and causes wars.
What these discussions should remember is that the discussion is more about two parallel systems that run separately, complement and have overlap where appropriate. Anyways, here’s a direct response to what Venessa wants from her bank. First, she wants transparency. “All I know about the way my bank works is that I deposit my money there, and then they take that money and go make money off of it. There are banks that do this, but they are nearly all mutuals, community banks, building societies, credit unions and such like. Industry Intelligence. Drum Roll, Please: The 2011 Bank Innovation Awards. Dust off your tuxedo shoes.
Schedule your haircut. Get that gown altered. It’s time for the 2011 Bank Innovation Awards presented by — you guessed it — Bank Innovation. If you are looking for Oscars-like certainty for the best of 2010, well, these are not the awards for you. The Bank Innovation Awards mark the most notable trends in 2010, or at least in this blog’s opinion. Perfect? Of course, not. Best Bank Not Yet Launched — BANKSIMPLE While BankSimple spent 2010 in development, it deserves accolades, even before its scheduled 2011 launch. Best Attempt to Revolutionize an Unheralded Banking Niche — USAA Banks often, and stubbornly, ignore the realities of how consumers do things in favor of providing the services they want in the way they want it. Best Acquisition by a Non-Bank — GOOGLE August was a busy month in the world of cutting-edge payments. Best Mobile Strategy — PAYPAL Best Joint Venture — AMEX-ZYNGA Best Financial Services Ad – E*TRADE Best Non-Bank Banking Strategy — FACEBOOK.
The banking sector gets its own start-up boom/bubble. In 2010 we had a bunch of innovative ideas become mainstream and start to impact the banking arena (for a full coverage see my post in Huffington.) However, 2011 promises to be more disruptive because as the economy finally starts to warm up, we’ll be seeing a lot of new private equity investment into start-ups in the finance arena. A new dot com boom? The intersection of interaction design, mobile technology, mobile payments, social media interactions, geo-location technology and augmented reality is producing a land grab for innovative new start-ups. We’ve already seen quite a few investments in new banking start-ups in 2010, which are the early stages of a new boom in the mobile tech space. Already we’ve seen start-up investments in peer-to-peer lending (Zopa, Lending Club, Prosper, Kiva, etc), payments alternatives (i.e.
In September of 2010, Think Finance secured $90 million in start-up funding for their Elastic web-based bank account replacement. Share It: Banks’ Self-Dealing Super-Charged Financial Crisis. SEC goes after Goldman. FinTech Innovation Lab. Web 2.0 and finance. Future. Financial Services. VG Company Job Pages.