FINANCE

How to Choose the Right Retirement Plan for You

How to Choose the Right Retirement Plan for You

It’s never too early to start thinking about retirement, even if it feels like it’s a long way off. The earlier you start saving, the ..

Where Can You Start Building Your Emergency Funds?

Where Can You Start Building Your Emergency Funds?

When it comes to money matters, you don’t have to be a financial expert to know that you should save for rainy days. Regardless of you..

Mistakes To Avoid While Choosing a Private Money Lender

Mistakes To Avoid While Choosing a Private Money Lender

If you are in the market for a private money lender, it is essential to do your homework and avoid making these common mistakes. There..

Understanding the different levels of maturity in travel and expense management

Understanding the different levels of maturity in travel and expense management

By Ryan Demaray, SMB EMEA MD at SAP Concur UK Digital transformation is no new phenomenon and even before the pandemic, many organisat..

Who Really Controls Your Money?

Who Really Controls Your Money?

By Nick Saponaro, CEO, Divi Labs Online banking has been a boon for both banks and consumers. For banks it has delivered huge cost sav..

5 Ways to Protect Your Wealth for Future Generations

5 Ways to Protect Your Wealth for Future Generations

Inflation in the recent years has been far worse than it has ever been. The situation has led to concerns in numerous people about the..

Trade Finance: The Small Brush to Paint the Big Picture

Trade Finance: The Small Brush to Paint the Big Picture

By Marc Naidoo, finance partner in international law firm, McGuireWoods’ Ignorance is sometimes bliss, especially in the c..

Hybrid working: a risk or opportunity for the financial services industry?

Hybrid working: a risk or opportunity for the financial services industry?

  By Sof Socratous Vice President, Northern Europe at Poly The financial services sector is an industry that has tra..

The inflation quirk that is costing Spain billions

The inflation quirk that is costing Spain billions

By Belén Carreño and Sergio Goncalves MADRID/LISBON (Reuters) – Surging energy prices pushed Spanish inflation to a peak of just..

HSBC launches $1 billion lending fund for female entrepreneurs

HSBC launches $1 billion lending fund for female entrepreneurs

SINGAPORE (Reuters) -HSBC Holdings said on Thursday it was launching a $1 billion lending fund to invest in female-owned businesses ov..

Home Equity Release: How to Get the Best Valuation and What Factors Can Affect it?

Home Equity Release: How to Get the Best Valuation and What Factors Can Affect it?

With the right home equity release loan, your money doesn’t have to stay locked up in the four walls around you, but can instead be pu..

The Great Switch on and Other Fintech Trends for 2022

The Great Switch on and Other Fintech Trends for 2022

  By Dynshaw Italia, Soldo CFO at Soldo The pandemic has disrupted many organisations and created lots of challenges for the fint..

Why finance organisations must transform fast to fend off competition

Why finance organisations must transform fast to fend off competition

  By Mark White, Senior Manager – Financial Markets and Fintech, Telehouse Europe Banking and financial service ente..

BoE’s Saunders worries inflation will be higher than forecasts

BoE’s Saunders worries inflation will be higher than forecasts

By David Milliken and William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) -Bank of England policymaker Michael Saunders, who called in vain for a big i..

Why EV Charging Stations Need to Accept Open Cashless Payments 

Why EV Charging Stations Need to Accept Open Cashless Payments 

  By Carly Furman, CEO, North America Nayax   By 2025, 30% of vehicles on the road are projected to be electric..

BoE flags risk of recession and 10% inflation as it raises rates again

BoE flags risk of recession and 10% inflation as it raises rates again

By David Milliken, William Schomberg and Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) -The Bank of England sent a stark warning that Britain risks a do..

What Is The Value of Using an Annuity?

What Is The Value of Using an Annuity?

Setting up — and monitoring — your retirement portfolio is key to ensuring that you have enough money to retire when it comes time. Yo..

Why sustainability presents one of the greatest opportunities for the Financial Services industry

Why sustainability presents one of the greatest opportunities for the Financial Services industry

  By David Lais, co-founder and CPO at ecolytiq  “Finance is the UK’s dirty little secret” This quote came from John Sauven, UK Exec..

Analysis-Banks lag bond yield surge as recession worries trump cheap valuations

Analysis-Banks lag bond yield surge as recession worries trump cheap valuations

By Danilo Masoni MILAN (Reuters) – Expectations of rising interest rates have failed to lift valuations of European bank shares ..

Closer U.S. ties would ‘reboot’ UK finance after Brexit, says report

Closer U.S. ties would ‘reboot’ UK finance after Brexit, says report

By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) -Britain should move further and faster in reforming its financial rules to ‘reboot’ after B..

BoE set to walk the line between inflation and recession

BoE set to walk the line between inflation and recession

By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England next week will try to walk what Governor Andrew Bailey calls a ̶..

Economic growth risks jolt inflation-obsessed markets

Economic growth risks jolt inflation-obsessed markets

(Refiles to fix date to April 27 not April 26) By Sujata Rao and Dhara Ranasinghe LONDON (Reuters) – After months focusing on ce..

How Can I Qualify for More on a Mortgage Product?

How Can I Qualify for More on a Mortgage Product?

Mortgage borrowing in the UK can be surprisingly restrictive. As a first-time buyer, the vast majority of products available are limit..

Could the NPA be the catalyst banks need to transform their payment networks?

Could the NPA be the catalyst banks need to transform their payment networks?

  By Michael Mueller, CEO, Form3 The payments landscape has undergone some significant changes in the last few years..

Automation is the name of the game in fintech in 2022 and beyond

Automation is the name of the game in fintech in 2022 and beyond

  By Tarmo van der Goot, VP EMEA, Chargebee As subscription businesses are looking to scale up operations, their fin..

Property Development Exit Loans: What They Are, How They Work

Property Development Exit Loans: What They Are, How They Work

Many developers sell their properties upon completion, raising the funds needed to repay their development finance facility outright. ..

The Definitive Guide on How to Get a Bad Credit Business Loan

The Definitive Guide on How to Get a Bad Credit Business Loan

Think of the positive aspects of being a business owner. For sure, there are many. But the thing about owning a business is that it is..

Unfolding the Great Payments Disruption – how consumers can navigate this new financial world and how financial institutions can rise to the challenge

Unfolding the Great Payments Disruption – how consumers can navigate this new financial world and how financial institutions can rise to the challenge

      By Jenn Markey, VP Product Marketing, Payments & Identity at Entrust   Across the world, consumers are s..

UK Fintech startup Pillar raises £13m pre-seed to solve credit access problem for immigrants

UK Fintech startup Pillar raises £13m pre-seed to solve credit access problem for immigrants

UK fintech, Pillar has raised a pre-seed round of £13m to help build a new credit platform which provides access to credit for immigr..

Insurers Must Reimagine Traditional Risk Models to Adapt to Climate Change 

Insurers Must Reimagine Traditional Risk Models to Adapt to Climate Change 

By Dr Hema Prem, Vice President, Insurance Europe at Infosys The harsh impact of climate change is escalating global insured losses d..

Three Explanations for the Growth of the Fractional CFO

Three Explanations for the Growth of the Fractional CFO

  By Dave Rosenberg, Head of Marketing, EMEA, Oracle NetSuite   New startups are emerging at a rapid pace. In the UK alone, ..

Why financial planning should be a key subject at school

Why financial planning should be a key subject at school

    By Jonathan Sidlin PETR CertLTCP Adv Dip FA Chartered ALIBF, Financial Planner and Managing Director of HSC..

The changing face of financial advice 

The changing face of financial advice 

  By Andrew Megson, executive chairman, My Pension Expert   In theory, product-based solutions are supposedly de..

The Future of Payments: Flexibility, Regulation, and Bespoke Models

The Future of Payments: Flexibility, Regulation, and Bespoke Models

  By Paul Marcantonio, Executive Director UK & Western Europe, ECOMMPAY   The payments sector has innovated and develope..

FINANCE

UK midcaps slip as inflation hits 3-decade high; Tesco slides

UK midcaps slip as inflation hits 3-decade high; Tesco slides

By Devik Jain (Reuters) -UK midcaps slipped on Wednesday after data showed annual inflation last month rose to a three-decade high, intensifying a cos..

4 Things You Should Know Before Getting a Reverse Mortgage

4 Things You Should Know Before Getting a Reverse Mortgage

The concept of reverse mortgages gets thrown around often, but what are they and how do they work, and how does one apply for a revers..

10 Signs Of Loan Scams

10 Signs Of Loan Scams

According to the Aite-Novarica Group, 47 percent of Americans experienced financial identity theft in 2020. The group’s report, U.S. I..