Pragmatist

The pesky EU is at it again, this time trying to level the playing field for EU consumers and businesses by putting an end to the high co...

I was at a 'parliamentary roundtable' on Tuesday on the perennial topic of small business banking reform. A more official report ...

In an attempt to eradicate late payments to small businesses of approximately £41bn, the government has proposed that, from April 2016, ...

As mentioned briefly before , UK banks have been so hopeless in referring businesses they can't finance to alternative lenders that t...

You've got to wonder about priorities at the Department of Culture Media and Sport . They allowed UK bookmakers to harvest £46 billio...

There has been plenty of research into the alleged effect of TV sex and violence on human behaviour, but how does TV adversely impact our...

At a ‘FinTech’ Cabinet Office workshop on Monday, we were informed/reminded that the " Business Bank " created by the Departmen...

Ominous bursts of smoke have been rising from Gillian Tett recently.  On September 12, the lady who gave us Fool's Gold pointed...

Our continuing economic woes seem to reveal a UK Treasury that has lost touch with the fundamental tax and regulatory problems in the UK ...

In a fawning interview in Monday's Telegraph, Ana Botin , CEO of Santander UK and billionaire's daughter, is lauded for having r...

In November 2007 it seemed clear that facilitators like Google and Amazon would capitalise on their alignment with their customers'...

Two things seem to be choking the flow of money to people and small businesses in the UK: broken regulation and perverse incentives. ...

Thanks to IPPR and The Finance Innovation Lab for an invigorating seminar on bank reform this morning. I've noted some of the h...

The authorities tend to view people sharing content as 'piracy' , but fortunately when it comes to money the UK government thinks...

Great to see the MoveYourMoney campaign up and running - certainly a step up from the calls for futile mass withdrawals in 2010. But th...

For those engaged in the process of empowering consumers, 2012 is already a fascinating year. So it was timely that a bunch of us met at Ct...

Over on The Fine Print , I've set out both the initial summary and my full submission to the Red Tape Challenge and the BIS Taskforc...

I'm off to Number 10 today, to talk about red tape that's constraining disruptive business models in financial services. In the ...

The latest Bank of England "Trends in Lending" report reveals that a further contraction in funding available to SMEs, combine...