Losers have goals. Winners have systems. Tim Ferris interviewed Scott Adams when working on Tools of Titans and from which the meme, “Losers have goals, Winners have systems ” was published. The essence of Scott’s idea is that we should choose projects and habits that, even if they result in failure, in the eyes of…
Behavioural studies certainly provide us with more insights than ever about the triggers, deviations, and responses of the human brain – conscious or unconscious. Knowing how cognitive biases influence people’s financial habits, however, serves a bigger purpose than just satisfying a curious mind. They are essential to building value and competitive advantage to survive and…
As financial services and other utilities such as energy, commoditise brought about by digitisation, regulation, competition from agile, innovative and cashed up techs and a growing interest in planetary and financial wellness, customer engagement is rapidly climbing to the top of the list of priorities of executives looking to acquire and retain customers. For those…
Harry meets Sally, it gets seriously fun. Holidays, parties, cars, moving in together. Weddings, babies, mortgages, retirement planning. The list goes on and all along the way, oh how we yearn for the good old days, when life was simple and Coronation Street was a suspense thriller. We are all faced with increasingly complex decisions…
Funding Banking Retail banking is a simple game at its heart: Banks lend money to customers and make money on the margin derived from what it costs to get that money (Net Interest Income). On top of that they then look for cross sell opportunities such as cards and insurance. Banks largely have two sources…
Since the turn of the century banking has undergone a rapid digital transformation. No longer do people line up in branches to do their banking instead they use their smartphones and computers, where monitoring accounts and transferring money is never more than a few clicks away. With this level of control, financial literacy and banking…
Global revenue from mobile games is expected to rise 21% to about $37 billion this year. That’s twice what retail banks will spend on digital. This growth has driven the China super hero Tencent to take a 84% stake in Supercell, the maker of the very popular Clash of Clans game, valuing Supercell at $10.2billion.…
Moroku help banks help their customers win. We do this by building digital experiences that motivate customers to save not spend and through this model build sustainable banking businesses based on liquidity as opposed to net interest income (NII) and fees. This is both really important and really hard. This is really important because as…
Money. It seems to make the world go around or at the very least it goes around the world. It gets many of us out of bed every day in our search to acquire more of it. Somehow it allows us to do the things we want to do. In an ideal world we’d all…
