3 december 2014
I have gone through a bunch of press cuttings from this year to take a look at what leading businessmen, economics professors and politicians have been saying recently about the Finnish economy: Put…
1 december 2014
The European Insurance Supervisory Authority (EIOPA) that has recently published stress test results on the main European insurance companies. EIOPA is an independent advisory body to the European Par…
25 november 2014
I have mentioned before that 2 banks, Nordea and OP-banks control over 60% of the banking market here. This is oligopoly by any reasonable standard, and should be challenged. There is no banking group…
18 november 2014
I met with Forum’s other columnist Kaj Arnö there today. He was hunting for companies to invest in and I was there to report on the exceptional. We both saw a lot of people wanting to succeed and wan…
17 november 2014
I spent a few hours this evening having a sneak media preview of SLUSH, the technology event for entrepreneurs organized here in Helsinki. What a breath of fresh air to see the results of education, …
17 november 2014
A year ago I was so fed up with the mess of the hundreds of big advertisements stuck up by Tres Bones, Club Venue, Club Kaiku and Tavastiaklubi, etc, that I called them and asked them to stop sticking…
13 november 2014
I have worked in banking and finance for 45 years and I am seldom surprised by what goes on. I have seen so much greed and unsavory banking practices. I have no illusions about the sector and very lit…
8 november 2014
It is not enough that we have political broilers as ministers now we have EK staff wanting to be candidates for the parliament. I have received an invitation to attend a corporate seminar to “change t…
2 november 2014
I have documentary evidence of how Nordea has been selling pension fund products to a colleague’s 75 year old mother who has some savings and a very small pension. The bank knew she suffered from deme…