Kevin Harrington

Tag: World Cup

  • What’s 1966 famous for?

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    England winning the World Cup? Well I guess so, but it was also the year that the first credit card in the UK was issued by Barclaycard. And who launched the first telephone banking system in the UK and in what year? Girobank in 1980. These and other interesting titbits can be found at A history of innovation in payments.

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  • Relax and accept World Cup fever

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    Do you remember all that fuss about employers losing productivity during the football World Cup? See my letter in the FT. It all seems so long ago. So how long will it be before we see the same conversation but centred around the Olympics? I think it will start about a year from now, get…

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    Kevin Harrington