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11 January 2016

I Just Want to Pay, Don’t Make Me Think. Ugh.

by Sam Michel · in Cantankerism, banks, ecommerce, fintech, nyr2016, payments

<tl;dr> Online retailers work so hard to get you to buy, then administer a swift kick to the shins when it comes to payment. My New Year’s resolution to wrote each day is being… [read more]

12 September 2011

The Banking Crisis: Portents of Historical Doom

by Sam Michel · in Miscellany, bank reform, banking, banks, vickers report

The Vickers report on the future of the UK’s banks has been published to the predictable wailing from the banks, and gnashing of teeth from politicians. Whether the rapacious tendencies of testosterone-fuelled traders (men and women… [read more]