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As Christmas Day fast approaches, many of us will be frantically last-minute shopping to ensure a Christmas to remember, not least after last year’s lockdown Christmas. Typically, UK households spend ...
The term digital transformation has been bandied around the banking and financial services industry for many years now, but despite the hype, for most banks, their digital transformations have a long ...
When you take your hard-earned money to the market, your main goal is to grow your wealth so you can achieve financial independence. One way to do this is by diversifying your portfolio so that it in...
You'll want to consider who you'll collaborate with and how you'll integrate, as well as your cash-conversion strategy. The appeal of instant riches might overshadow the fact that Bitcoin was initiall...
The Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) market is seeing remarkable levels of growth, and this growth is projected to continue for years to come. By 2024 the market is expected to grow 181% and to account for 13...
Boarding new merchants from a sales perspective is both an art and a science. The art of sales is a well-trodden field with numerous different approaches. We see it in every industry with experts impa...
It’s been a boom year for startup financing in Europe, which is great news because the world needs innovative startups to take on the big challenges it's facing, from pandemic recovery to climate chan...
It’s become a cliche, but the pandemic has accelerated a decade’s worth of change into just a few short years. But it’s already time for entrepreneurs, business leads and tech teams to look ahead to t...
2021 was a year marked by the implementation of the rapid digital transformations that began accelerating when the coronavirus pandemic first hit the world in 2020. Fintech firms and other businesses ...
According to UK Finance, there was an 84% surge in “impersonation scams” at the start of the pandemic as fraudsters looked for ways to capitalise on COVID-19. With our financial lives now heavily onl...
For me it is becoming a sort of tradition. Writing a blog about the upcoming trends in the Blockchain and crypto arena for the next year and beyond. A year ago I concluded with the sentence: always ex...
Including precious metals, especially gold, in an investment portfolio is one of the best strategies to ensure your assets are diversified. As with all types of investments, the value of gold can incr...