How to Work with Banks: Advice to Alternative Finance Companies
Printer-friendly version (PDF) In the last two years, there has been a substantial increase in the number of Alternative Finance companies (AF) that seek to lend to the 90% of…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) In the last two years, there has been a substantial increase in the number of Alternative Finance companies (AF) that seek to lend to the 90% of…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Last time this newsletter focused on why banks should consider selling NOW. Among the reasons: growth opportunities are limited; strong returns on equity will remain illusive; the…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) SELF-INDUGENCE ALERT! February marks the 20-year anniversary for my firm, FIC. I might have ignored it, but for the many and well appreciated Linked-In prompted congratulations I…
Restoring the ‘fun’ in banking requires bringing back appropriate risk taking and innovation. Recently, I ran into a former colleague who was bemoaning that he had been fired. His misfortune…
Restaurar la “diversión” en la banca requiere traer devuelta el tomar riesgos apropiadamente e innovar. Recientemente, me topé con un antiguo colega que lamentaba haber sido despedido. Su mala fortuna…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Bankers seem to spend the first few weeks of each New Year meeting internally to discuss the prior year’s numbers and kick off sales programs for the…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) We do not expect or want our bankers to be like the artists and writers of Charlie Hebdo. Their work was often profane, angry, anarchistic, and sometimes…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) The dictionary definition of homogenize includes “to change something so that its parts are the same or similar.” Increasingly, prodded by regulators and internal compliance officers, advised…
Last time, in response to a friend’s comment, I wrote about when, for many, banking stopped being fun. That column received more responses than any other I have written over…