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Brexit, Trump and the chaos in Catalonia are driving demand for multi-currency accounts – and within 10 years they will be the norm, affirms the boss of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations. The comments from Nigel Green, founder and CEO of deVere Group, come as deVere E-Money’s global money app, deVere […]
Budgeting is a highly necessary and mandated task for any business, with an extremely structured process in most cases. But as budgeting expands to include a broader scope within companies, how can we work towards a collaborative budget? Chris Howard, Vice President of Customer Experience, Centage, explains for Finance Monthly. I’ve yet to speak to […]
Research from leading information security company Clearswift has shown that the education sector is rivaling technology for the top spot when it comes to GDPR preparedness. The research surveyed 600 senior business decision makers and 1,200 employees across the UK, US, Germany and Australia. When asked whether firms currently have all of the necessary processes […]
UK adults are turning en masse to online platforms, frustrated by the archaic and out-dated processes used by offline businesses. An independent, nationally-representative survey of 2,000 UK adults commissioned by virtual letting agency LetBritain has revealed mass consumer discontent with businesses failing to embrace digital disruption, with over half (51%) regularly going online to buy […]
Here Laura Hutton, Executive Director at Quantexa, explains the money laundering phenomenon, describing the typical profile of a money laundering ring, the added variety some display, and the challenges banking systems currently face in identifying money laundering systems. Global money laundering transactions are currently estimated at 2 to 5% of global GDP, or up to […]
Donald Trump is set to make a decision on the Chair of the Federal Reserve by Thursday this week. This decision will shape a big part of the US President’s economic legacy in the job. The current chair of the Federal Reserve was appointed by President Obama in 2014 and is the first woman to […]
Only 1 in 300 property purchases by overseas cash buyers are triggering red flags with the National Crime Agency (NCA) in a wakeup call for the UK property market, anti-money laundering (AML) specialists Fortytwo Data have warned. In the US, a similar jurisdiction to the UK, 5% of home sales are to overseas buyers and […]
What if The Apprentice (UK) was actually a credit based show rather than a strategy play? Below, Cato Syverson, CEO of Creditsafe, discusses for Finance Monthly the ‘real winner of the show’, if the win depended solely on the contestants’ past dues, credit history and debt. This year’s series of the popular television show, The […]
Ray Dalio, the founder of the largest hedge fund in the world, told Henry Blodget that investors should have 5% to 10% of their portfolio in gold. During that same interview, Dalio called bitcoin a "speculative bubble" and said "bitcoin is not an effective medium exchange by and large" and "it's not easy to buy […]
According to ONS’ most recent crime report, “Bank and credit account fraud” was the most common type of fraud experienced (2.5 million incidents or 75% of total fraud) in the UK, followed by “consumer and retail fraud” 6– such as fraud related to online shopping or fraudulent computer service calls (0.7 million incidents or 22% of […]
The UK’s Banking and Financial sector has experienced a strong quarter, despite ongoing uncertainty caused by the Brexit negotiations, according to figures recently released in the Creditsafe Watchdog Report. The report tracks quarterly economic developments across the Banking and Financial and 11 other sectors (Farming & Agriculture, Construction, Hospitality, IT, Manufacturing, Professional Services, Retail, Sports […]
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