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As the elections loom large and the party leaders are, as we speak, on some campaign bus or another, covering large swathes of the British Isles in the desperate bid to win over last minute voters, ho...
The total number of UK charitable donations made by Direct Debit rose to a record breaking 60 million in 2014, according to data from Bacs Payment Schemes, with values exceeding £1.21 billion, a ris...
In the previous post, I have made a statement that people not only dislike their retail banks, but they even distrust them. Despite that customers tend to stick around with their banks instead of swi...
Samsung is currently taking a pummelling from the media. Last month it was criticised for its Smart TVs that ‘spy’ on people in their homes, selling information on their behaviour and viewing choices ...
The Financial Services (FS) sector continually invests huge sums in IT to remain competitive and compliant in a post financial crisis world. In 2014 Celent predicted a global bank IT spend of $188 bil...
The great debate across the media and all interested parties is the face-off between the incumbents (banks) and new entrants (fintech start-ups). Each opposing party sees themselves as the true messia...
Yesterday's letter sent to the Telegraph signed by 100 of the country’s leading business figures demonstrates a real belief in the current Government’s ability to manage the economy successfully and c...
It’s not often that we get to write about the only global report on crowdfunding worth talking about. And this one’s doubly special, as we’ve waited for over two years to receive this report by Masso...
In the digital world, the advent of social media, mobile including the smartphone takeover means that a population traditionally deemed too young to take financially independent decisions are in fact ...
According to the Future of Finance report by Goldman Sachs, 33% of millennials do not think they will need a bank in the next five years[1]. In fact, according to the Millennial Disruption Index, 73%...
Dynamite comes in small packages! The big technology companies may claim Silicon Valley as their de facto domicilium, but several thousand miles east of California’s tech heartland lies a booming tec...
When Aneesh Varma, a successful entrepreneur, came to this country from the United States eight years ago he landed on British soil with zero financial credibility. Banks wouldn't give him the time of...