In the world it is not the image, but the substance behind the image which counts.
Gnomes deal in the substance behind the image…the greasy machinery behind the magic on the stage of life.
Gnomes in the commercial world are bankers with extremely secretive policies, similar to the gnomes in fairy tales, who live underground, in secret, counting their riches.
The term "gnome of Zürich" originated in a crisis meeting of UK Labour politicians in November 1964. The politicians blamed Swiss bankers for raising speculation against the pound. During the meeting, politician George Brown criticized the Swiss bankers and said, "The gnomes of Zürich are at work again."
The term "Gnomes of Zürich" was subsequently used by many other politicians of the time.
Soon after the catchphrase became famous, a few Swiss bankers started answering their phone as "Hello, gnome speaking." An audacious Swiss banker moved to London in order to set up his business and named it "Gnome of Notting Hill".
A gnome is like a “mushroom within a network”, always looking for a symbiosis with other networks and systems in the environment. In order to reach a symbiosis he is seeking, he goes for win:win situations for the provider of the means, and, if he's convinced, he participates without trickery, becoming a partner for life.
"Alexander Librini", arguably the world's most powerful gnome, produced his own financial applications based on a secretive blend of algorithms.
Soon, many companies in scores of countries were paying handsomely for access to these applications. The applications achieved 95% accuracy in calculating future troughs and peaks in markets.
Librini rose in status amongst the world’s gnomes, all of whom had created their own magic "black boxes". Librini’s black box became the only one of its kind and really the only one worth buying into.
A black box model, or more specifically a black box financial model, is a catch-all term used to describe a computer program designed to transform various data into useful investment strategies.
In science, computing, and engineering, a black box is a device, system, or object which can be viewed in terms of its inputs and outputs, without any knowledge of its internal workings. Its implementation is opaque or “black.” Almost anything might be referred to as a black box: a transistor, an algorithm, or even the human brain.
More common than ever nowadays the term ‘black box’ refers to a non-disclosed algorithmic know-how versus the profane interpretation as has often been used in the "yellow papers" of Wall Street.
The village of Librini belongs to the municipality of Esine, in the province of Brescia, in the region of Lombardia. Nicknamed Leonessa d'Italia ("The Lioness of Italy"), Brescia province is the home of Italian caviar, and is also known for being the original production area of the Franciacorta sparkling wine.
It is significant to mention the wide presence of an Etruscan population in Lombardia. This was a tribe of pre-historic "gnomes" who fed wolves with a magical drink of "soma", giving rise to ancient culture, science and arts. This culture flourished and became the Empire known as Rome. In the early ADs, Etruscans staged their vanishing from the world scene using a secret craft to form underground tunnels leading to the heart of the Alps.
Librini is in the north of Italy. It takes approximately 5 hours to drive from Librini to Zurich. It takes just 13 mins, however, via the secret hi-tech pathway called the "gnome-portal".
The name of this fox is Swift, while apparently SWIFT stands for a financial protocol used by modern banking system to make international transfers.
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), legally S.W.I.F.T. SCRL, is a Belgian cooperative society that serves as an intermediary and executor of financial transactions between banks worldwide. It also sells software and services to financial institutions, mostly for use on its proprietary "SWIFTNet", and ISO 9362 Business Identifier Codes (BICs), popularly known as "SWIFT codes". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Worldwide_Interbank_Financial_Telecommunication