Friday, May 3, 2024
Listen to the full interview An interview with Kimberley Waldron, MD at SkyParlour Since 2009, my latest guest on the podcast has along with her business partner run a communications agency that works in the fintech space. "We started the business...
Despite the delay to the UK's easing of lockdown, Fintech Week London, a hybrid event scheduled for 12-16th July will take place with its planned programme of physical and virtual sessions. Speaking via the event website following the UK government's...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK's financial sector regulator has published its final guidance on the fair treatment of vulnerable customers. The guidance, which aims to ensure that all customers are treated fairly, provides regulated firms with a definition...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its data on complaints made relating to the firms it regulates for the second half of 2019. Monitoring this data is important for financial brands and the wider market. Understanding how many complaints...
Following its decision to ban the marketing of so-called 'speculative mini-bonds' to retail consumers, the FCA has announced that the ban will now stand permanently. The FCA has said that firms will not be allowed to promote speculative mini-bonds to...
Former Pensions Minister, Baroness Ros Altmann has said that the 'old mantra' in the pensions industry doesn't fit anymore. Speaking as part of an online event, Baroness Altmann said, "the old mantra is that pensions are sold, not bought...we had...
Insurance provider, Direct Line has moved on from its long-running advertising campaign featuring Pulp Fiction character, Winston 'The Fixer' Wolfe. The campaign, developed by the advertising agency, Saatchi and Saatchi was launched in 2014 and helped Direct Line to reposition...
Listen to the podcast Interview with Jasper Martens, CMO at PensionBee Jasper Martens was part of a team of six people when he joined PensionBee in 2015. PensionBee is now a company of over 100 people with plush offices (albeit empty...
Listen to the podcast episode Interview with Mark Oliphant This week I had the pleasure of interviewing Mark Oliphant, the Head of Communications at The International Stock Exchange (known as TISE - for those wondering, like I was, it's pronounced like...
Leanne Cutts, HSBC's CMO has said that COVID-19 is "a real reset moment for our role as marketers" that has shown the firm that it can deliver change more quickly and confirmed its reliance on an agile method of...