09 Jul Breaking a Fixed Loan
By Ian Robinson Interest rates have materially fallen. That is the good news for all holders of variable loans. BUT there is a large percentage of fixed...
20 Jun Which is the Best Bank?
By Ian Robinson Writing commercial and agribusiness loans for the past 15 years builds up a war chest of intellectual property and proprietary from the perpetual...
20 Jun The 90 Second Bank Test: How does your bank rate?
By Ian Robinson Wouldn’t you like to know how important you are to your bank? This knowledge will then, after all, qualify the level of competent...
22 May Union of Banking Polarity: Green Shoots
By Ian Robinson The world of banking is seemingly becoming more alienated to the mere mortal borrower. There is outcry of Us vs THEM with an...
22 May Revelations of an Ex-Banker
(Yes that's Ian fishing for dinner at midnight on Greenland's west coast). By Ian Robinson With 20 years of banking stacked and compressed into a professional experience...
29 Apr 5 Quick Clues to your Business Loan Strength
The business has carried commercial debt for decades in various forms. The relationship with the bank has been harmonious for most part in parallel to...
14 Jan Economic Barometer: 10 Second Story Line
Ian's top tips for money market activity this year...
14 Jan Business Lending Update
By Ian Robinson 2019 will be a year for many that they will want to forget. But only for those who are ill prepared. For the...
12 Dec A Haggle(less) Country
by Ian Robinson (photo: Ian Robinson beside his tent) In 1999 I had finally approached Oqaatsut, 69 degrees North on the West Coast of Greenland. After days...
08 Oct DAVID ROBERTSON CASE STUDY: BENCHMARKING TO CREATE RESILIENCE
I was contacted by a client with a view to benchmarking their current funding. Whilst we identified there was a potential advantage in more competitive...