This article on Wired.com reports a speech made by Zopa CEO; Giles Andrews. He starts in combative form.
The banking industry has “forgotten who its customers are”
They would have lost most of them, if people thought hard about their banking.
Giles then says this.
But the banking industry has left itself vulnerable, he says. He compared the need for consumer-focussed disruption in banking to the transformation of the car services industry 40 years ago. KwikFit made car repair faster, more convenient and cheaper. “They provided a product that was better value, offered better convenience and a better customer experience. It was just a better product.”
Zopa is truly the Kwikfit of banking. I just wish I’d started to use them earlier.
July 1, 2013
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Finance | Peer-to-Peer Lending, Zopa |
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Hackney seems to be embracing the new Legible London with vigour.
I spotted these two of their taller, narrower signs in Shoreditch High Street, last night.
I didn’t need them last night, as I knew where I was going, but in that very-visited part of Hackney, they are very welcome.
July 1, 2013
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Transport/Travel | Hackney, Legible London, Liths, Walking |
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On my trip back from Stockholm, between Osnabruck and Cologne, I sat next to a German electrical engineer.
He astounded me at one point, by saying that German pipe fittings on industrial plants were in Imperial units.
I have been unable to check on the Internet, but I assume it is true and is probably down to American influence.
July 1, 2013
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World | Engineering, Germany, Metrication, United States |
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This article sums up a lot of the responses to the news that the Gospel Oak To Barking Line is going to be electrified.
I was rather surprised too, as it’s not just a matter of putting up overhead wires, as there are lots of places that will be difficult to electrify and some of the platforms are a bit short. Even so the sum of £115million looks to have a bit of fat in it, which might be used for other purposes, like improving stations with longer platforns and better access and possibly extending the line to Barking Riverside.
Longer trains are obviously on the table, as London Overground is already committed to extending its Class 378 trains from four cars to five and common sense says that where possible, the same trains run all over the lines of the London Overground. So at worst, the Gospel Oak to Barking Line might get a few three-car Class 378 trains.
At best though, there is scope to reorganise things a bit. Plans have been discussed in and on various informed magazines and web sites, where some or all Barking Trains don’t stop at Gospel Oak, but carry on to Willesden and then go down the West London line.
I think too that there is a bit of disbelief at Transport for London, as they have got what they wanted over the Gospel Oak to Barking Line and they now must decide how best to turn a Cinderella line into the belle of North London. They have welcomed the announcement, but seem to me to have been rather quiet otherwise.
July 1, 2013
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Transport/Travel | Barking Riverside, Gospel Oak And Barking Line, London Overground, Trains |
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