One of the challenges facing banks, fund managers and financial planning groups is overcoming the tendency of only ‘touching’ people infrequently and to move away from the usual forms of contact such as impenetrable reporting and less impenetrable advertising.
In Asia, the banks seem to be starting to …
Fear of ATM fraud in Singapore has led some banks to accessorize their cash dispensing machines to reassure customers and prevent crime syndicates from attaching illegal hardware to outlets.
Banks in Singapore have achieved this without having to spend millions of dollars on state of the art crime …
With so much focus on climate change after the release of a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Brussels last week, it seemed only appropriate to air this satirical rebuke of the investment world.
Wormwood Bayne is a fictional US investment company which cares …
Here at brandmanagement we are always interested in the latest bank trends from around the world - the ridiculously slow service in China to the new and interesting practices arriving in Australia and into the United Kingdom.
In the UK there is a growing trend for banks having ‘navigators’ …
How long is a piece of string? How many monkeys does it take to change a light bulb? Who knows, but what we do know is how long it takes to be served in a Chinese bank – one hour and fifty minutes.
Last week a member of …
Orange, the global commercial brand of France Telecom, is one of the first companies in the UK to put together two separate employee benefits packages to create a compelling pensions offer for its staff.
By putting the proceeds of a share save scheme into a pension, employees can, …


