Menu
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact
Blue Dun

Blue Dun

Category: Thoughts & Ramblings

jim

No Banker Left Behind

In Thoughts & RamblingsPublish DateJanuary 1, 2025

This is the second of an indeterminant number of posts delivered at irregular intervals highlighting songs about money. Some everyone will know; some are more obscure. Taken together, they create a soundtrack for the fintech experience. These aren’t the “best” songs. They aren’t grouped together for any reasons, and they are in no special order. But each is good, or interesting, or notable, or enjoyable and in its own way captures some element of our pecuniary experiences.  So Happy New …

Continue Reading
jim
Five Boston Fintech Week Panels I’m Looking Forward To

Five Boston Fintech Week Panels I’m Looking Forward To

In Thoughts & RamblingsTags Boston, conferencesPublish DateOctober 9, 2024

Boston Fintech Week is back! This seventh edition, brought to you once again by Fintech Sandbox, is running from October 14 – October 18, 2024. This year’s theme is Fintech at Full Throttle. One of the things that makes …

Continue Reading
jim
A Mark a Yen a Buck or a Pound

A Mark a Yen a Buck or a Pound

In Thoughts & RamblingsPublish DateMay 27, 2024

“That clinking, clanking sound Can make the world go ‘round” After more than 30 years of operating at the intersection of technology and financial services, I’ve come to realize that what fintech really needs isn’t AI …

Continue Reading
jim
10 Essential Films about Financial Services

10 Essential Films about Financial Services

In Thoughts & RamblingsPublish DateDecember 16, 2023

In chronological order. A subjective list to be sure. Only includes movies I’ve seen. Which films would you add? It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) On Prime Video, and at this time of year in heavy rotation lots …

Continue Reading
jim
Should the U.S. Postal Service Offer Basic Banking Services?

Should the U.S. Postal Service Offer Basic Banking Services?

In Banking, Thoughts & RamblingsTags financial inclusionPublish DateMay 24, 2021

May 24, 2021 Could it provide affordable financial services for underserved families, and, at the same time, shore up its own financial footing? Bank branch closures are an ongoing phenomenon hitting rural and socioeconomically challenged communities …

Continue Reading
jim

The New Financial Health

In Banking, Thoughts & RamblingsTags financial healthPublish DateOctober 1, 2019

Ideas of financial health have long been rooted in the concept of “financial literacy,” and dominated by educational approaches designed to teach people how to better manage their financial lives. While financial literacy is important, and …

Continue Reading
jim

A Hub of FinTech Innovation

In FinTech, Thoughts & RamblingsTags BostonPublish DateSeptember 25, 2018

The second annual edition of Boston FinTech Week, organized by FinTech Sandbox, has just successfully concluded. There were 47 separate sessions held in 22 venues across five days. More than 3,000 people registered. They came from …

Continue Reading
jim

Effective Uses of Public Relations for Startups

In Marketing, Thoughts & RamblingsTags CircleLending, PRPublish DateMarch 4, 2016

Periodically, I hear a presentation or read a blog post on the topic of public relations for startups. I often feel the advice given is incomplete, or misguided, or one-size-fits-all, or simply wrong. So here is …

Continue Reading
jim

What I Saw At Finovate

In FinTech, Startups, Thoughts & RamblingsTags Finovate, PrivatBank, toplessPublish DateMay 6, 2014

I’ve just returned from the Finovate spring session in northern California. What did I see? Quite a few single occupant automobiles in the HOV lane on Highway 101. Finovate, for the uninitiated, is a grueling two-day …

Continue Reading
jim

Noncompete Agreements Simply Slow the Slide of Corporate Dinosaurs Into the Tar Pits

In Thoughts & RamblingsTags Acentas, Massachusetts, noncompete agreementsPublish DateApril 11, 2014

Earlier this week, Governor Deval Patrick indicated that he will move to ban enforcement of noncompete agreements in Massachusetts.  This is one part of a larger piece of legislation designed to promote innovation – job creation …

Continue Reading
jim

Your Own Cooking Isn’t All You Want To Eat

In Thoughts & RamblingsTags Lending Club, P2P Lending, Prosper, Wells FargoPublish DateJanuary 23, 2014

In 1998, at a technology conference in New York, John (Launny) Steffens, vice chairman of what was then Merrill Lynch & Company, told his audience, ”The do-it-yourself model of investing, centered on Internet trading, should be …

Continue Reading
Older Posts

Site Sidebar

Financial services, professional services, venture capital, marketing, and anything else that catches our fancy. But mostly fintech.

Subscribe


 

  • Accelerators
  • Alternative Lending
  • Banking
  • Blockchain
  • Capital Markets
  • Digital Identities
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Innovation
  • Institutional Asset Management
  • Insurance
  • InsurTech
  • Marketing
  • Mobile
  • Mobile Payments
  • PFM
  • Private Credit
  • RegTech
  • Regulation
  • Retirement
  • SMEs
  • Startups
  • Sustainable Finance
  • Thoughts & Ramblings
  • Trade Finance
  • Venture Capital
  • Wealth Management

Quotable Quotes
“Whenever the old gives way to the new, everybody with vested interests in the old starts crying that the world will stop. There aren’t many people with vested interests in the new.”
— WALTER WRISTON

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
— GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
— MARK TWAIN

Bookmarks
FinTech Sandbox
Observations from the Fintech Snark Tank
Revolutions Podcast
The Wine Chef

Site Footer

Copyright © 2025 Blue Dun LLC
Privacy Policy