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How to introduce new payment initiatives without causing public anxiety

Why aren’t you panicking? The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has signalled that it will allow card providers to set the contactless payment limit for their customers. Now, on top of a thousand other existential threats we need to worry about, from ocean acidification to microplastics, we must worry that anyone who finds a lost debit card could ...

31 October 2025

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Is the UK quietly giving up on its small businesses?

There is a contradiction at the heart of the UK economy. Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) employ six in ten people and generate £2.8 trillion in turnover, yet when consumers were asked if the UK is a good place for them, only 23% of consumers said yes. That figure should stop us in our tracks. When confidence in SMEs is low, it seeps into...

25 September 2025 Fintech

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The Second Death of the High Street

If you’ve walked down a British high street, particularly one in a smaller town, then you will have noticed a change. Certain shops are gone forever, many are boarded up or replaced with charity shops, vape liquid retailers and the like. If an independent coffee shop or craft goods shop opens anywhere but the wealthiest areas, they have their wor

19 August 2025

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