Step-Up Finance
With the hokey-cokey playing out in Greece, banks are set to lose money if it leaves the euro, but the effects could be felt on home soils worldwide. Apparently contingency plans are being made for such an event, which presumably support the banks in damage limitation against a further ‘credit crunch’ however, any losses faced by the banks from defaults filter down. As they are deemed unwilling...
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Listening to Robin Dunbar’s explanation of love might have been a useful exercise for the seemingly doomed retail chain that is Clintons. For, as he pointed out, the intensity to which the human species falls in love, is unique amongst the animal kingdom… and being as we’re the species with purses and wallets, there is a card for every occasion along the full gamut road; from head over...
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Meeting Customer Service: What a Difference a Day Makes Actually, more likely what a difference several days make, but the basic concept remains the same. About a year ago I blogged about the missed opportunities for micro businesses and small enterprises that I’d encountered because of their confusing business promotions and disappointing customer service; both disengaging me as a customer...
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Old news, the UK is in recession (again) as the Office of National Statistics said Britain’s GDP fell 0.2% in the first quarter of 2012 after contracting by 0.3% at the end of 2011, forecasts were upset by a big fall in construction output and industrial output. Therefore, with a sinking-ship type economy, apt news via an Australian whose planning on constructing Titanic II in late 2013, with...
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