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Melvin Haskins

Managing Director at Haston International Limited

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Social media payments friend or foe

Customers of banks and financial institutions are protected by law. Until the same framework is in place with social media companies, then they should not be allowed to enter the market.

03 Jul 2020 Reply Read article

Brits go weeks without using cash during Covid-19 lockdown

Without knowing how each group of 2000 was selected it is impossible to take the detailed percentages seriously. A siginificant number of receivers of surveys do not reply. As a result, I have no confidence that the detailed conclusions represent a fair cross section of society across the breadth of the UK.

12 Jun 2020 Reply Read article

More than half of UK payments in 2019 made by card

Most of my local independant shops take cash, but do not record anywhere the number of transactions, so where do the statistic regarding ther number of cash transactions come from?

04 Jun 2020 Reply Read article

41% of businesses plan to switch banks because of poor performance during health crisis

I hope that the same survey is carried out in 12 months time, contacting the same players, to confirm the number of companies that actually change banks, compared to the number that say they will. History says that few will actually change.

01 Jun 2020 Reply Read article