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Category Archives: Banks

Banking – The Facts & The Three Funding Gaps

I have been privileged over the last few days to access the unfiltered views of national and regional banking leaders, having been closely involved in both the Manchester British Bankers Association event and the Lancashire Business Week finance event. This … Continue reading

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Crowdfunding: A Non-starter – But A Pointer To The Way Forward

Crowdfunding is not going to work but it points to new ways forward in the structure of enterprise funding. Crowdfunding is suddenly getting much picked-up by the media and uncritically being heralded, particularly by writers of a leftist/non-business leaning, as … Continue reading

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Thinking the Unthinkable – Thinking like Capitalists!

The Liverpool Chamber-hosted seminar of the British Bankers Association was both very real and also slightly surreal. It was very real in that a succession of very senior banking figures spoke frankly and reflectively about where things had gone wrong … Continue reading

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Don’t Bash The Banks – But Don’t Bank On Them Either

Michael Heseltine has been attempting to rebalance the tide of disfavour still swelling around our banks. In an interview in The Times he points out the core position major banks still occupy within our economy and argues that any new … Continue reading

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