Now & Z/Yen

The Irregular Newsletter of The Z/Yen Group

2012

Apr 2012 Smurfing, Surfing and Smoking, Mercers' and Z/Yen Finance and Business Day in the City, The Road To Geneva

2011

Dec 2011 In a brewery? Better yet – in Number 11 Downing Street!, Golden Touch, Character Building Research, Z/Yen’s Very Own Ethics Boy Made Good, Z/Yen’s Tennis Event Rated ‘Alpha’
Feb 2011 Mirror Mirror On The Wall, Who's The Fairest Bank Of Them All?... Mr Livingston, I Presume?... Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow... Quantitative Imodium?... Welcome, Welcome.

2010

Oct 2010 Now We Are Three... Silly Season Events Roundup... Financing Sustainability: A Z/Yen Recipe.
May 2010 Z/Yen Drums Up The Business... Global Financial Centres Index 7 - Just Published... City 4 A Day - A Morning Workshop With Z/Yen... Well Behind The "One-Over-The-Eight" Ball".
Jan 2010 Z/Yen's Own Ethics Boy to Launch New Publication... Long Finance - Worth Waiting For... Hundreds Sign Up to the Big ExtZy Giveaway... Care in the CommunityZ Part One - Raising Aspirations... Care in the CommunityZ Part Two - On-line Activities... No Svet.

2009

Sep 2009 Z/Yen Builds CommunityZ... When Irish Tongues Are Wagging... Geoff Cook - A Tribute... Charities Consortium IT Benchmarking Takes Shape... Soju, Rum, or Guinness?... The Sisterhood.
July 2009 The Road To Long Finance... My Green Word Is My Government Bond... Michael Metamorphoses Into a 1960’s San Francisco Rapper... ………And Talking Of Intellectual Stuff... ExtZy Means Prizes.
May 2009 Reasons To Be ExtZtatic, Part Three... Reasons To Be Global, Part Six... Reasons To Be Cheerios... New Addition To Z/Yen’s First Family.
Feb 2009 Z/Yen Gets Deep Into Commercial Disputes... Tomorrow's Carbon Prices Today... And Talking Of New... Political Monk or Political Manqué?... Do You Know Where You’re Going To... Charities Coming Together In The Right Direction.

2008

Nov 2008 Excellence Award Puts Z/Yen on the Right Side of the Law... Footprints All Over The Z/Yen Office... Z/Yen People are All Over the Place Part One... Pro Bono? Yes, Of Course, We All Like U2... Z/Yen People are All Over the Place Part Two... Ethics is not a place between Hertfordshire & Cambridgeshire.
July 2008 Future Events, Dear Reader... Future Events... PEFC Governance Reviewed... Caught Harris, Bowled Mainelli
May 2008 Here Comes The Summer, Here Comes The CCITDG... It’s WiZe To SpecialiZe... Speechless!...  ‘Indices Going Up’.... Payroll Giving and the National Payroll Giving Excellence Awards.
Mar 2008 Sustainable Governance... Working in UNISON... A Professor’s Lot Is Not A Happy One... London Accord-ing To Z/Yen.

2007

Dec 2007

PropheZy Helps Boost Charity Fundraising... EX Marks the Spot... Floating The London Accord?.. Nativity Story.

Oct 2007

Z/Yen Guides Tourist Centres... Index – What Index?.. Charityshare Expands and Wins Top Award... No Dirty Knapp-y Jokes... Yes Now I’m A Judge (and a Good Judge Too).

July 2007

Global Indices Go Global... Z/Yen’s Getting Hotter at Games...The Day of The MiFID Approaches (Only 100 or So Days to Go!)... Z/Yen People News... Z/Yen Gets Even Hotter at Games... SpecialiZm Joint Venture.

Apr 2007

GFCI – Come Fly With Me... The London Accord - A Little Mess Is Necessary... Z/Yen Awarded Payroll Giving Awards Contract... UKCAE - Above The Bar... Further growth to the Z/Yen Toddler Team.

Mar 2007

Change of Climate or Climate Change?.. Green, Mean, Debating Machine... The Job Must Go On... Green Game Gamble... Term-Time Gresham Professor.

2006

Dec 2006 Time Is Running Out For WABBO... Cash In – Carbon Out... 2006 Operational Performance Awards... Farsight Goes Further... Josie’s Escaped Again.
Oct 2006 Opening Of The New Z/Yen Office... Just Like Buses... Experts for Projects... Another Z/Yen Acronym... Farsight Awards... And It's Hello to Them... And It's Goodbye From Him... Running Out Of Space.
Jul 2006 Z/Yen Takes Nothing For Granted... Financial Myopia versus Farsighted Investment... Don’t Be Vague... Z/Yen Is The News... Running Out of Steam... Steaming Out of Runs.

Mar 2006

Raising Interest... Comply with Compliance... Odd Jobs... Social Engagements.

2005

Dec 2005

Everyone’s a Winner... London Calling... Standard Issue... Better Mousetrap... Short Dull Article Update.

Nov 2005

High Praise Indeed... and I Thought Paribas was a Watering Hole in the French Capital... Independent Professor... In a Bind! Short Dull Article Competition... Josie’s Going Up in the World, Prince(ss) of Projects.

Sep 2005

New Staff, New Baby... New Award (Just Maybe)... New Clients... New Interviews and In The News You Can Chose to Rate Your City... All Rounded Off by Fairy Tales at Bedtime.

Jun 2005

Mainelli Professes... Yeandle Compresses... Express Presses and Z/Yen Impresses but Still Confesses that it Just Ain't Cricket.

Mar 2005

Z/Yen in Financial Services 2005... Betting Research ups the Ante... Z/Yen in Charity Sector and Grapple Fans go to Borehamwood.

2004

Dec 2004

Z/Yen Runs London, My Lords and Ladies... We’ll All Be Better Off – Payroll Giving... We Could All Be Better Off - Betting... PropheZy Predicts Prizes... Kwacha in the Wright.

Oct 2004

Breaking Records... Fighting Crime... Winning Medals... Making Records... And Helping Clients!

Jul 2004

e-Pricing and e-Trading Technology Benchmark Launched... Longer Than The Longest Thing... Son Of Longer Than The Longest Thing... If The Cap Fits... Ante for the Money-Laundering and Stricter Governance.

May 2004

Standard Practice... Yo-Ho-Ho & a Barrel of Rum... Up Up and Away... As Predicted by PropheZy... An International Cast of Stars.

Feb 2004

National and International Charities Swoop on Z/Yen... The National Exchange of Birmingham... An International Cast of Stars... Benchmarking to Help Cut Charity Insurance Costs... The Power of Clients... OneStopHit Have Smart Intelligence... Cable & Wireless.

2003

Dec 2003

From Foresight to PropheZy... 90 Interviews, 10 Countries, 17 Banks, 2 Gratuitous Rugby World Cup Mentions... No Beer and Sandwiches but Plenty of Incisive Debate... From Foresight to Eyesight - Fishing for Risk... Where's the Beef?... Eyebright plc... OpRisk.

Oct 2003

The Bank Rankers... ChoiceNet - A Networking Community for Better Decisions... Ageing (dis)gracefully... Prize or Perish.

Jul 2003

Z/Yen Setting the standards for Broker Performance... Z/Yen's Twenty20 Vision is Ahead of the Game... SpecialiZm - Optimising Experts... Control, Dear Boy, Control... Caution to the Winds.

May 2003

Who is to Say? Remember I Told You So... Taking Cover in the City... Run, run, run... fun, fun, Fun?? ... Z/Yen Public Speaking Marathon.

Mar 2003

Z/Yen goes clubbing... Poor performance hits banks... Islington profits from PropheZy... Normality Rules... BT Phone Home... Another bunch of charities.

Feb 2003

Up, Up and Away... Loaves and Fishes... It Ogres Well... To Boldly Benchmark... Small is Beautiful, But Struggling.

2002

Nov 2002

New Seasonal Relationships... Z/immers in the Frame at the British Film Institute... Z/Yen Referees Electronic Identity Discussion... Z/Yen Contributes to Nobel Prize... New Barbarians at the Gate... Z/AbaDaBaDoo.

Sep 2002

Evidence of Worth... Son of Z/Yen... Disastrous New Publication... The Customer is Always Write... Another Study... The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Risk/Reward Management... Fishy Awards for Penguin Suits.

Jul 2002

Working in unison with UNISON... Z/Interregnun... Getting to know you aspects... Friday on my mind.

May 2002

Coming a close 20,000th to Paula Radcliffe in the London Marathon...  Merger Mystery Tour - OligopoLuedo...  In the Meantime...  Summer in the City...  It's only Risk 'n' Reward but we like it!!

Mar 2002

New Year, New Clients...  Va Va Voom - Crunch...  Kevin Parker Recognised in New Year Lecturer's List (Scout's Honour)...  Global Branding Issues Solved...  Failure Evolves into a Cunning Plan?...  Superstitious Old Z/Yen...  and Salt on the Wound.

Feb 2002

Z/Yen Get a New Aspect on Intelligence, Stop the Presses...  Please! Not Another Z/Yen Book(let)! ...  Red Cross Make Z/Yen Red Letter Day...  Groundhogging...  A Jolt for Now & Z/Yen.

2001

Nov 2001

The Going is Good...  What to do with 60,000 data points...  In WATT spirits...  hello...  BIO-5-0...  Picture this.

Sep 2001

Choppers and Champers...  Replacement Three Letter Acronym...  Z/Yen Employs a Person with a life...  Duck Season? Rabbit Season? No-Conference Season.

Jul 2001

Book of The Year...  Z/Yen's 21st...  Sweep Of The Month...  Location, Location, Location...  Gentlemen (and ladies) - Start Your Stochastic Perception Engines!

May 2001

Captain Mainelli's violin...  Getting away from it all...  Up the Palace...  Z/Yen goes up a couple of floors.

Jan 2001

Z/Yen Move On Up...  Buy-Side/Sell-Side - More City Buzzwords...  Salmon Charted Evening...  Sold for 200 Camels...  Great Mistakes in Tech Commercialisation.

2000

Aug 2000

Now Yoo Too Can Doo the Zaroo!...  Clean Business Cuisine: Now and Z/Yen - Only 120 Shopping Days Til Christmas...  Up for the Charity Shield?... Bounding Technology...  Chippies galore.

Jun 2000

Z/Yen Welcomes Summer...  Key Note Speaker...  Reflective Repast...  The Beach Book of the Summer...  CCCCCCCC...  Faith, Hope & Charity...  and a big welcome.

Mar 2000

Wat Anudder Banker?...  The One 'L' Llame, He's A Priest...  Banking Charges...  The One 'L' Milet, It's a Publishing Firm.

Jan 2000

Doo Yoo Zaroo?...  A Cure For All Known ailments...  Madeira Me Dear.

1999

Oct 1999

Loony Tunes...  I'll Take an Option on That Rain-Check!...  Mal-Diving...  APort in Every Girl... Homeless Harris...  Great Bourse of the Day.

Jun 1999

Reflective Repast...  Come Together, Right Now, Over Me...  Dotting I's and Crossing T's...  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Mar 1999

Draw me a Jaffe...  Quantum is a Fancy Word for Junking Your Computer...  Did Someone say Amyl Nitrate?...  Rolling the Ball or The Table Must Be Spinning.

1998

Dec 1998

Hark! The Herald Angels sing...  Floatation of Art Gallery - From Our Virtual Correspondent...  Little Bits Make a Lot of Quanta.

Aug 1998

Don't Worry, Be Happy...  the Sound of Leather on Willow...  Rolling on the River.

1997

Nov 1997

Fired!! Now and Z/Yen editor pushed...  Assignments for Z/Yen rolling in...  Karen Moore joins Z/Yen...  What's in the name?

Jul 1997

Z/Yen goes to the dogs...  Ideal assignment for Z/Yen...  Z/Yen takes Voluntary Sector by storm.

Feb 1997

Z/Yen projects are just kids stuff...  news of financial laboratory goes global...  Z/Yen is going soft...  Cabin Fever breaks out at Head Office.

1996

Dec 1996

Bloomin marvellous...  assets in wonderland...  win-win.

Oct 1996

Virtual Rial IT...  May the force be with you...  give me shelter.

Jun 1996

Exchange and Start for Z/Yen...  Why Do New Z/Yen Folk Speak Spanish?...  Mister and Missus Mainelli.

1995

Nov 1995

One Year On, Z/Yen Moves Onwards and Upwards...  Stop Taking the CO(NH)...  Announcing Z/Yen's Joiners: Alan Beeston and Kevin Parker.

Jul 1995

Jumping Jack Flash, it's a British Gas, Gas, Gas...  Z/Yen Hatched, Matched and Dispatched column.

Jun 1995

Announcing the Great Z/Yen "Spot the Advert" Competition...  No, Z/Yen isn't a Charity, It Just Does a Lot of Work With Charities... Z/Yen Makes a Further Call for Candidates, Comments and Copy.

Apr 1995

April Another Win-Win for Z/Yen...  Z/Yen Goes Into Full-Scale Hiring Mode - and a good job too.

Mar 1995

Toys for the Young Persons Regardless of Gender...  Z/Yen Seconds that Emotion... This Is The Modem World.

Feb 1995

John...Major...joins Z/Yen Board in Shock Shake-Up...  Z/Yen Builds Bridges Across the Channels...  Z/Yen Packed Its Trunk and said Goodbye to the Circuits.

1994

Nov 1994

The Milky Bars are on Me!!...  Z/Yen Storms In and Takes Garrard House...  All Systems Go with Mail Handling, Growth Initiative and IT Projects.

Oct 1994

Z/Yen Shocks Paparazzi Winning First Competitive Tender...  VAT Group Registration Not So Difficult to Get After All...  Red Hot Poker Time Nears as Property Deadlines Looms.

Oct 1994

Z/Yen Holds First Full Meeting...  Zen Things You Wanted to Know About Business.

Sep 1994

Z/Yen Lands First Blue Chip Contract...  More Business News... Prospecting.

Sep 1994

Z/Yen Group Incorporates - DTI to Investigate?...  Real Business News...  Prospecting.

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