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Founder and CEO of Advanced Payment Solutions which in 10 years has become a leading digital banking and payments company in the UK.

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Fair and equal access for FinTech

When the banking system – and payments infrastructure in particular – was created, there was no consideration that anyone other than the banks would require access to it. How times have changed. With the UK's history of sophisticated financial services, it is unsurprising that we are now firmly on the global map for FinTech innovation. As the sayin...

13 February 2016

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Is today a good day to become a bank? Maybe... Maybe Not!

When George Osborne announced that newly established challenger banks would no longer be exempt from the 8% tax that applies to the biggest banks, many of those at the helm of these new businesses will have swallowed – hard. They had expected to be let off, arguing that the levy should only apply to global banks of systemic importance, not the sma...

28 October 2015

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