Pragmatist

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

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

Those struggling to find a job take note. The recents string of law suits filed against major banks by the Federal Housing Finance Agency ...

Well, that's it folks. It's mid-July, and we can all head for the beach, the hills or the village boules court, secure in the knowle...

Cutting the Gordian knot Talk about Zeitgeist - last Saturday morning I was in Porto, reading about the Greek crisis in The Economist . ...

Few people are aware that when you pay using a credit or debit card, your 'issuing' bank charges the retailer's 'acquiring...

Like previous financial crises, this one won't end until individual and collective confidence in banks and the financial system is resto...

I've often made the point that we will only curb excessive fees and risk-taking in the financial markets by vastly simplifying products...

I was lucky enough to be invited to Tuesday night's Financial Services Club talk by Giles Andrews , CEO of Zopa . It was a real treat t...

Isn't it annoying that the 'news' media 'report' on the results of research, but never provide a link to the source? Wel...

Great to see Private Eye focused on the proposals for a Green Investment Bank ("The Green Stuff", p. 9, No. 1269). On top of th...

I've been an avid supporter of low cost travel operators, but recently I've detected a marked change in their attitude, and some f...

In this age of bold government budget cuts, it seems odd timing for "Equalities Minister" Lynne Featherstone to waste time and mon...

The Bank of England reports a "widespread retreat from risk" amongst UK banks, in the face of: the sovereign debt crisis; a hea...

Over at Oikonomics , we are discussing how to balance the relative importance of what happens inside the bubble of the City with what happen...

Leading economist, Paul Krugman, continues to argue forcefully that Governments of economies in recession should spend now to support econo...

While the fiscal bears are rampaging across Europe, devouring costs wherever they can be found, the old bulls bellow that the planned auster...

Well the news was characteristically left in a drawer for someone else to find, but it's official: New Labour died penniless . I'm ...

The Euro Zerozone is in all kinds of trouble now, having staked its whole economy on the ability of the Greeks, Portuguese, Spanish, Italia...

After last month's gory detail on the UK's financial vulnerability , another barrage of charts from Zero Hedge illustrates why the ...