Archive | October 2015

Brainstorming strategy items…

What would you do? Here is a discussion. This applies to much more than just the Taxi industry… It applies to areas including Home Loans, Real Estate, Corporate Finance, Government, and more.)

…Uber is hitting headlines daily. Whether you love it (as most customers do, or hate it…

Uber has found a winning formula…

This is clearly bad news for traditional taxi companies…

…However, just complaining is not going to solve their problems. So, how should traditional taxi companies respond? … Go to URL for remainder of discussion…

http://www.imd.org/research/challenges/TC065-15-strategy-for-taxis-wade.cfm

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Action?

“Action is the foundational key to all success.” -Pablo Picasso

Did you know that the Urban Financial Services Coalition (UFSC) has been successfully conducting impactful Community Youth Development Programs throughout the United States since 1974? -See this one minute interview on YouTube:

Take action on a UFSC Strategic Leadership Team today – contact us at ufsc@ufscnet.org !

-Urban Financial Services Coalition-

-Vision
To ensure the full and equitable participation of people of color at all levels in the financial services industry.

-Mission
To be the pre-eminent financial services organization that provides professional development programs, supports educational advancement and promotes economic empowerment for its members and minority communities at large.

Small Business strategy session

Urban Financial Services Coalition at Business Finance meeting with Asian Business League in San Francisco. Attended by many leaders including U.S. Small Business Administration and other government and private entities.

“The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer’s are good listeners, not good talkers.” -Guy Kawasaki

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Jobs

“Our department had 140 job openings last year and received over 6000 job applications. We responded to the folks we met at events like this first. They GOT the lions share of those jobs.” – Deputy from a Financial Regulator at the Urban Financial Services Coalition (UFSC) African American Briefing for Financial Professionals in January 2015.

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UFSC

-Vision
To ensure the full and equitable participation of people of color at all levels in the financial services industry.

-Mission
To be the pre-eminent financial services organization that provides professional development programs, supports educational advancement and promotes economic empowerment for its members and minority communities at large.

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Ethics…

*CRIMINAL PER FED CHAIR EMERITUS BERNANKE?? (Fox News)

Urban Financial Services Coalition (UFSC) already knew this Financial Crisis was NOT a temporary game and would have devastating economic impact on communities.

That is why the UFSC Board of Directors activated a number of community empowerment initiatives including establishing the UFSC Mortgage Crisis Task Force in 2009. http://www.ufscnet.org/?page_id=810

The Board of Directors and Task Force members should be proud of their courageous ethical action-

The crisis is not over for many, including minority communities…

Are you active on a UFSC Committee?? *Register now at ufscnet.org

http://www.foxbusiness.com/economy-policy/2015/10/05/bernanke-more-should-have-faced-prosecution-for-crisis/

ECONOMY & POLICY
Bernanke: Execs Should Have Been Indicted for Crisis

By Dunstan Prial
Published October 05, 2015
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(Reuters)
Perhaps Ben Bernanke should have spoken up sooner.

Bernanke, the former chair of the Federal Reserve who helped mastermind the massive bank bailouts in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, says he believes more Wall Street executives should have been held accountable for their roles leading up to the crisis.

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While all the major Wall Street firms – J.P. Morgan Chase (JPM), Goldman Sachs (GS), Citigroup (NYSE: C), Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), Wells Fargo (WFC), etc… — have agreed to pay fines now totaling in the hundreds of billions stemming from widespread fraud that occurred ahead of the 2008 meltdown, not a single top Wall Street executive was charged ever as a criminal…

Go to URL for remainder of article.

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