Thursday, April 25, 2024
Alanis Morissette knows how to write a tune. In 1996 she released 'ironic', and whilst it's a solid slice of pop gold, it is lacking in irony. Bad luck? It's got lots of that, like the old man who turned...
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...
Monzo has announced a new fee structure that will see some customers paying for replacement cards and cash withdrawals. In a post on its website, the online bank announced that as of 31st October it will be introducing a...
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...
Lloyds Banking Group remained the largest mortgage lender in 2019 based on gross lending, increasing its market share by 1.4% last year. Meanwhile, Nationwide BS moved into the top spot in the buy-to-let market, increasing its market share by...
Just under half of UK adults, aged 18 or over display at least one characteristic of vulnerability. That's according to the findings of the FCA's Financial Lives Survey and it equates to 24.1m consumers. The FCA believes that the COVID-19...
In the Digital Finance Forum's second annual survey of fintech founders, 90% of respondents have cautioned that firms will struggle to raise finance in the coming year. The survey of over 100 founders cited COVID-19 as the cause of the...
Tristan Thomas, Vice President (VP) of Marketing at Monzo is to step down from his role at the end of this year. The news comes as the bank faces a fight to survive as a result of mounting losses. Thomas...
Former Centrica CMO, Margaret Jobling has been appointed CMO at NatWest in an apparent turnaround for the bank which had previously scrapped the role. NatWest had previously stated that it would not be hiring a direct replacement for David Wheldon...
Google has launched a mortgage tool in its search results in the US market. The tool has been launched in partnership with The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the organisation responsible for regulating the offering and provision of consumer financial...