Posts by Step-Up Finance (Business)
January 2012 Noteworthy News
It is becoming prohibitively expensive for the lenders, who rely on cheap short-term financing to fund a part of their balance sheet, to fund for more than 3-5 years, hence, traditional banking, which supports the wider corporate client, is facing further shrinkage in the corporate banking world. Businesses and motorists are bracing themselves after the wholesale price of petrol is set to rise....
Read MoreHappy New Year – Predictions 2012
In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship but never in want. No.1 Prediction: 90% of all the 2012 predictions will be wrong …. but…. that doesn’t stop some still wanting to read more … 2. Predictions (and hopes) for analytics in 2012 3. Experts Weigh In On 2012 4. Global Economic Forecasts for 2012 5....
Read MoreMerry Christmas
Reading an article about The Future of Shopping in all its glory, the browsing online, videoconferencing, superimposing items, click-and-collect, scanning barcodes, price-matching , Quick Response and technological advances mean the future seems less leaps-and-bounds and more vaulting and ricocheting. With a question being posed: ‘Is E-Commerce a disruption for retailers’? For the...
Read MoreThe Future Of Banking
Could 2012 see the appreciation of customers being a new currency for banks? (Space has been left for any comments of the sarcastic variety) Although…. could be as Banks, previously reluctant to join in with social networks are beginning to realise they might be missing out. Aware of the big numbers therefore potential, banks will be sniffing out the relevance for their brand and...
Read MoreA Series: Outside the Box – Those That Draw Beyond Confines – No31 Outside The Toy Box
The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys. A statement which might truly, according to promoted top ten lists, be relegated to Christmas’ past, as real time toys in emails to the North Pole seem to eschew traditional play for interactive with added technology. Updated after Christmas dinner games, such as Monopoly, with an Old Kent Road at £600,000 and Mayfair...
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