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Why Are High-Street Banks Losing Their Young Customers?

27th July 2018
What’s that saying? You’re more like to get divorced than you are to switch your bank account. Below Matt Shaw, Strategist at RAPP UK, explores why high-street banks need to re-connect with young customers or face losing the next generation to digital first challengers. For ten years now consumers have been used to getting less […]
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Size of Personal Debt Continues to Rise

27th July 2018
According to the latest YouGov debt research commissioned by Equifax, 15% of UK adults have missed a payment on a credit card or short term loan at some point. Almost a third (32%) of UK adults with a credit card admit that, in a typical month, they don’t pay off their credit cards debts in […]
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Managing Transactions & Analytics Simultaneously in a High-Speed Financial World

26th July 2018
Below Graeme Dillane, manager, financial services, InterSystems, offers insight into best practices in the financial services industry, highlighting where current weaknesses lie and how they can overcome. Increasing trade volumes and periods of high market volatility create technology challenges for financial services firms. This is especially true for sell-side firms, which can experience extremely high […]
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Is MIFID II Hindering Innovation?

26th July 2018
In the past year MIFID II has enticed change and development across the financial markets and research sector. Here Fabrice Bouland, CEO of Alphametry, analyses said change and the impact it has had on innovation. Six months in and MiFID II research unbundling regulation has appeared to create an even worse market for investment research […]
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Giving the Finger to Fraud

25th July 2018
Below Dave Orme, SVP, IDEX Biometrics, discusses the challenging landscape of payments and fraud, the fight against scammers and the obstacles the future will find in a cashless society. Clearing up the mess left behind by fraudsters is a serious challenge and sees financial institutions having to absorb the monetary and logistical damage of card […]
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How Will Blockchain Technology Help First Time Buyers?

25th July 2018
Owning a home is one of the biggest dreams for many, yet the process of buying any property can be laborious and flooded with additional fees, delays and disappointments. Blockchain may just be able to chain that. Below Finance Monthly benefits from expert insight from Kai Peeters, the Founder and CEO of HiP, on the […]
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Your Thoughts: Netflix vs TV

24th July 2018
Video streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime have now been reported to have more subscribers than traditional pay-per-view TV services in the UK, according to new figures released by Ofcom. This of course also applies on a global scale, in the US and beyond. This week Finance Monthly asked experts in the media […]
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75% of Businesses Fear Fraud Risk Because of Weak Accounts Payable Systems

24th July 2018
Three quarters of finance decision makers within UK businesses have admitted that their company could be susceptible to fraud because of poor accounts payable systems, according to a new report. And 70% of finance decision makers also admitted that a failure to implement robust purchase order processing within their company was also putting them at […]
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Crypto Is ‘Undeniably’ Mainstream as Watchdog Backs Bitcoin

23rd July 2018
Cryptocurrencies are now “undeniably part of mainstream finance,” affirms the deVere Group. The bold statement from the founder and CEO of deVere Group, Nigel Green, comes as the Financial Stability Board (FSB), has released a report that concludes Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies do not currently pose a risk to the global financial system. It also comes […]
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Global Markets, Brexit & Ryanair

23rd July 2018
Below Rebecca O’Keeffe, Head of Investment at interactive investor, comments on the latest global market updates offering insight into the recent Ryanair strike debacle and Brexit progress. Global markets continue their malaise, as trade tensions weigh on sentiment amid fears that global growth will slow. With no major catalysts to drive the market higher, the […]
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Ryanair CFO: Making `Good Progress' on Labour Dispute

23rd July 2018
Ryanair Holdings Plc Chief Financial Officer Neil Sorahan discusses the company's earnings and performance and the possible implications of a "hard" Brexit. He speaks on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe" as the discount airline posted a 20 percent drop in first-quarter profit and warned that sporadic walkouts by trade unions, along with regional traffic-control strikes, are starting […]
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1% Increase in Income Tax Could Solve NHS Budget Issues

20th July 2018
A simple increase of 1% on income tax and National Insurance could pay for the 3.4% increase to the NHS budget announced by the Government says leading accounting, tax and advisory practice Blick Rothenberg. Robert Pullen a Director at the firm said: “The debate has been raging over the weekend about how the increase to […]
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