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E11
- 17 januari 2022
In March 2021, the ECB projected that inflation would be 2% at the end of the year. In reality, inflation was 5%.I'm stunned that there isn...
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E10
- 03 januari 2022
Our New Year's letter to ECB President Lagarde. Now that inflation is out of control, we wish her a career change or a firm hand.Plus a quick recap of the financial news of December 2021.Plus Finrestra's plans for 2022.This is the video with our two courses:
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E09
- 21 december 2021
BNP Paribas sells its US subsidiary Bank of the West to Canadian BMO.This fits into the 'Go big or go home' pattern (listen to episode 3 of the Finrestra podcast): banks leave non-core markets if they cannot reach a critical scale.BNP Paribas gets about 14 billion euro from the sale...
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E08
- 06 december 2021
A quick recap of the financial news of November 2021.+European bankers (CEOs) should be ashamed! Banks have been horrible investments. Large European banks are stitched together like Frankenstein's monsters. Their divisions have no synergies. They are active in way too...
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E07
- 22 november 2021
Greenwashing is a way of presenting your business so that it looks greener than it really is.Based on bank's own publications and NGO reports, I identified nine ways in which banks are greenwashing their climate efforts.Do you know about other greenwashing tricks of banks?Ple...
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E06
- 08 november 2021
Quick recap of the European financial news of October 2021.Deep dive into the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and the actions of banks against climate change.
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E05
- 24 oktober 2021
Rik Coeckelbergs is the founder of The Banking Scene. In this wide-ranging interview, Rik talks about the art of banking, banking for good, and why banks are still attractive for young people who want a meaningful career.Follow Rik...
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E04
- 17 oktober 2021
Koen Vingerhoets is a blockchain expert who has delivered projects in finance and other industries. He tells Jan why he got interested in Bitcoin while working in a bank. We also talk about the Gartner hype cycle, public permissionless versus private permissioned blockchains, the need for collabo...
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E03
- 10 oktober 2021
Many banks are exiting foreign markets. But some choose to stick around and grow their market share.
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- 04 oktober 2021
Quick recap of the financial news of September (euro area inflation, Universal Music Group IPO, Evergrande debt, US debt ceiling). Background story: the US debt ceiling and how the Treasury can mint a trillion dollar coin to escape from the impossible trinity imposed by Congress.You...