I am interested in finance, strategy, and technology.
Every once in a while I am sharing my personal views in the blogposts below. Feel free to share your (dis)agreement with me directly or on LinkedIn.
Taking Excel beyond the grid
As recent demos of Apple Vision Pro suggest, Microsoft Excel is here to stay even in the age of spatial computing. Without judging if that is a good or bad outlook in general, scrolling through endless spreadsheets in augmented reality is probably not much more enjoyable than on today’s screens. Therefore, I want to share three ways how one can take Excel beyond its grid dimensions. 1. Beyond the grid with data types Excel’s grid of cells provides a great user interface, because what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG), and two dimensions are usually sufficient to represent the information needed....
Bank runs are not just for banks
After seeing the turmoil about Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic, people worry about if and how more financial carnage is yet to come. To provide some guidance, it is vital to assess who may be next to liquidate portfolios with large unrealised losses? Besides banks with unhedged held-to-maturity portfolios or sudden deposit outflows (“bank run”), European life insurance companies could face similar liquidity issues (as mentioned by my colleagues a few weeks ago)....