Pragmatist

Odd that Will Hutton should claim in The Observer, of all places, that making the purchase of pension annuities optional will end in l...

Finally, the last lines of resistance have fallen and the Chancellor has announced that ISAs will go to work:  "To further incr...

Six years of financial crisis have finally produced some of the legal changes that will expose the cosy world of regulated financial serv...

An odd article on page 20 of today's FT suggests that the failure of some ventures to raise money somehow puts 'crowdfunding...

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...

October is 'crowdfunding month' out there in the regulatory world. The European Commission is consulting . The SEC is consulting ...

What a difference a year makes. At an industry event yesterday none other than Nicola Horlick , a well-known fund manager, confirmed her...

Crowdfunding directories are becoming useful, given the wide variety of potential models, specific geographic and other constraints, an...

When Gordon Brown ( remember him ?) repeatedly proclaimed the " end of boom and bust " he was declaring his belief - along wi...

I've hugely enjoyed the documentary series tracing Dave Fishwick's valiant efforts to start a small community 'bank' in ...

Image from Parliament.uk This time he's made a submission   To the Banking Standards Commission . He's a poet and he didn...

Here's what some of the non-banks have to say about banking standards (from 17:52).

The news that Kickstarter, a US rewards-based crowdfunding operator, has opened a dedicated UK platform is hugely encouraging for anyone...

The UK government has announced a cross-departmental working group to support the sustainable development of peer-to-peer finance (aka ...