Looking back 5 Years, and designing forward
By Bruce B. Cahan on July 29, 2012 at 3:23 am
Appreciating the freedom to think as part of the CIS Community Read more about Looking back 5 Years, and designing forward
By Bruce B. Cahan on July 29, 2012 at 3:23 am
Appreciating the freedom to think as part of the CIS Community Read more about Looking back 5 Years, and designing forward
By Bruce B. Cahan on May 2, 2012 at 2:49 am
Lately, I have been puzzled by the proliferation of bank-mobile operator partnerships in the developed and emerging countries. The mobile carriers provide the remittance or payments instructions, and the banks move the money, conduct the foreign exchange (e.g., into/out of U.S. Dollars) and deliver the cash or credit to the intended recipient.
Are the banks really necessary in this money transfer process? No, they are not, and have not been for years - try over a hundred years! Read more about When Mobile Telecommunications Routes Become Banks
By Bruce B. Cahan on August 31, 2010 at 10:27 am
Privacy is something we lose actively, not passively. Listen to the verbs of our digital lives: Read more about Banking on Our Privacy
By Bruce B. Cahan on August 29, 2010 at 11:05 am
The financial literacy of America has improved markedly, nearly to college level, as a result of the global recession that started in 2007. What about state-owned banks, is the time ripe to explore that part of economic history?
Americans, now economists, can fill a green chalkboard from left to right, with the familiar logic of our situation: Read more about State-Owned Banks as a Way to Rebuild the Housing and Real Estate Markets