Author Archives: Ferran Frances-Gil
You Can Leave Your Hat On
On 1986 Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke starred a film which was going to break myths and be remembered for years; Nine 1/2 Weeks. Starting September we’re going to see [...]
Managing Capital Consumption In A Slow Growth Economy
Last week I had a very interesting conversation with a member of this community (executive of a global Bank in the area of Risk and Accounting). Apparently he read one [...]
Swiss Franc: The Symptom, The Illness, Capital and Agreement
One of the most lucrative investments on the last 9 months has been speculation in foreign currencies. As the economic situation worsened in Europe, with lack of confidence in the [...]
Mobility, Efficiency and Strategy For Banks
As we move into the Mobility Revolution and the most popular gurus describe mobility as the driver of a new era in Banking I miss some answers, particularly one. Mobility, [...]
The Role Of The Clearing Houses In A Liquidity Crisis
On the last two weeks we’ve been looking at Greece, apparently the result of its elections was the key to trigger an economic Armageddon. But one week after the Greeks [...]
Capital Optimization & Logistical Constraints: Banks and Supply Chain Management
A common mistake when we’re defining capital management is limiting its scope to portfolio management. In fact capital management has a broader scope which includes portfolio management. But as we’ve [...]
Banks, Governments and the Prisoner’s Dilemma
Some days ago I received an email from a former student of my strategy courses at the Open University of Catalonia www.uoc.edu who asked me some interesting questions: If the [...]
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