Pragmatist

As part of its ' midata ' initiative to empower consumers, the department of Business Innovation and Skills has been consulting ...

I must say I'm enjoying all this "Big Society" malarkey. The debate about what in the hell it means, the irony of Liverpool C...

On Wednesday I attended the launch of The Faith of Generation Y by Sylvia Collins-Mayo, Bob Mayo and Sally Nash, which the Daily Telegraph ...

Thanks to George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty Four , and the film adaptation , most of us over 20 have grown up with the threat of an omnis...

Fascinating to see big charities accuse big business leaders of putting their own interests first in objecting to Labour's planned inc...

It's been helter skelter this month, so no time to post. But a recent financial regulatory conversation has prompted me to draw together...

It's just cost Yell Group £80 million in fees to secure £660 million in funding . Apparently this is because there are over 300 lenders ...

Interesting tips from a book Why She Buys , by Bridget Brennan, posted on the Amazon Payments blog : don't hide your customer service nu...

"Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean...

Hat-tip to none other than EU Commissioner Meglena Kuneva, whose recent post alerted me to the report of the McKinsey Global Institute on ...

I should start my take on the " Digital Britain report " by making one thing clear: the fact that the government has issued the re...

On 16 June, the Financial Services Club is hosting a discussion about the role of social media in financial services. A senior central bank...

Giles Andrews, Zopa 's Managing Director, explains how the social lending marketplace evolved. Hat-tip to P2P-Banking . Giles Andrews fr...

It's been a mad week, with my spare time absorbed by an article on the behavioural targeting of internet advertising and responding to...

Last night I attended the lecture by Professor Jonathan Zittrain on " The Future of the Internet: Private Sheriffs in Cyberspace ...

By the end of Phorm's " 2nd Town Hall Meeting " it became obvious that the company is still trying to launch a product with bo...

William Patry made this excellent point in tonight's SCL Annual Lecture , specifically in connection with proposals to extend further...

The latest series of stock market plunges has signalled capitulation by the last of the diehard, old-school capitalists. We've seen sign...

Paul Moore's recent evidence to the Treasury Select Committee reveals the kind of top-down culture in the UK financial system that expl...

One of President Obama's first acts has been to berate Wall Street executives for taking the sixth largest round of bonuses in history ...