Step-Up Finance
Standing small things side by side, a singular value often has the ability to magnify itself; the singular value is increased as a collective. Individually three words can each hold their own important relevancy; stand those words next to one another, as World Book Night does (the smallest word propped-up by the two longest at either side) and their combined strength works together. Words come...
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To avoid future bailouts at taxpayers’ expense, the splitting-up of major European banks debate continues considering the separation of high-risk investment banking and other bank operations: similar to the Vickers Commission (London) aim, in separating capital market transactions from banking activity (lending and deposits). Since 2008, the familiar phrase ‘too big to fail’ banks, has...
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In the hope of making something tasty for the economy to feast upon, one can only imagine the conversations that occurred during the process of creating something that has a bit of everything thrown in. If ever there was evidence needed of Thick of It goings on in Mr Osborne’s department, the announcement of plans for a Government-backed ‘business bank’, to increase lending to UK companies,...
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Being recognised as a caring, sharing company sounds better for business – It conjures up images of a big family ready to embrace you in their circle of products and services as they go about their daily activity of focusing on profit. Interesting then to read an email sent to me with editorial-type articles – Including one from the MD of a major high street bank: quoting Churchill,...
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The Business Equivalent of Lactic Acid – Am I Bothered? It would be too simple to blame the Olympics, too easy to blame the holiday period and too British to blame the weather for absorbing business focus. But, without wanting to sound like a easily forgettable Award speech that lists the team involved – amongst the landlords, property developers, retailers, publicans, pharmacists,...
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I sometimes don’t know which hard surface to bang my head against first. There’s the one waiting next to those who, being good at what they do in business adopt an attitude of possessing business acumen in specialist areas – to which they have no experience - or, the hard surface next to those businesses who follow these expansion of service offerings like a blinkered donkey following a...
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The storage boxes held the detritus of family shifts and changes, much had gone to charity shops but there were several pieces that had been hanging about the corners of the garage, which ‘collectors’ might appreciate. “Head off to a car boot”, was the suggestion put forward to me: a business area that I know nothing about – and how quickly I was made aware of being a novice. I...
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This was a character who understood that every aspect of business processes has its complications; he dealt in facts…. not opinions. ‘Earlier this year we had some trouble with seahorses’ – so went a line in a weekend read about the trials and tribulations of a chef who was having difficulty getting kosher certification ‘it’s a tough business – tougher than the pharmaceuticals business’....
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