Faithful and creative

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone fans are desperate to know: “Is the film true to the book?” Well, that depends. As the Sorting Hat says while reading Harry’s mind, “It’s all here, in your head.” The world that millions of passionate fans have conjured in their own imaginations…

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Lotus positioning

The 42-storey Thai Farmers Bank headquarters lies on the “wrong” side of Bangkok’s Chao Phraya River, giving staff an unusual view of the city. This is not the bank’s only unique outlook: it’s considered to have one of the more visionary IT and overall re-engineering strategies in Thailand’s post-crisis environment. Thai Farmers Bank (TFB), the…

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Carbon dated transactions

When customers at a downtown branch of Thailand’s fifth-largest bank take a deposit or withdrawal slip, they take a sheet of carbon paper too – it means they can write their own receipt. It’s no surprise then, that Bank of Ayudhaya (BAY) customers were taken aback by the August launch of the bank’s first foray…

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