Aline van Duyn, writing in the FT over the weekend, says bankers are suffering from the Lake Wobegon effect, something dreamed up by radio talk show host Garrison Keillor who reports from his fictitious Minnesota town “where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average”.
“Well, according [...]
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Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital is a slim (171 pages of text) book with a hefty punch. In it Carlota Perez charts major technological changes over two centuries that drew in massive amounts of speculative capital, created a bubble that then burst, and then continued in a quieter fashion to spread through the world drawing [...]
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OK, the tech visionaries who want to talk about innovation in banking probably don’t have a social life anyway, so here’s an event for them -
BarCampBank, which promotes itself as the Unconference group is holding a full day confernce on Saturday 14 February at Sun’s offices in London.
“If you are an innovator, a disruptor or [...]
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What’s not to like about this — a winter seminar in lovely Sarasota, FL — on the Gulf of Mexico. And the speaker list makes it all look legit. Sponsored by BITS and the FInancial Services Technology Consortium, it will provide senior financial services executives with the opportunity to explore new technology and R&D to [...]
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Thanks to James Gardner at BankerVision for pointing the way to a fascinating new program — The Center for Future Banking.
A five-year collaboration between MIT and Bank of America, it brings together bankers and academics to think about the future, conduct seminars, and most recently, run an intelligent and easy to read blog about what [...]
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Michael Malone, one of the top tech writers in the US, argues in the Wall Street Journal that “Washington is Killing Silicon Valley.”
He argues that excessive regulation threatens the entrepreneurial role of tech startups – especially Sarbanes Oxley and accounting rules that require stock options to be entered as an expense on balance sheets.
“At its [...]
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