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Retired Member
The budget yesterday carried one absolute jewel, namely that an ‘Innovative Finance ISA’ will be launched next year in time for April. With the following hallowed words Mr Osborne has transformed crowdfunding: ‘The Government will introduce the innovative finance ISA, for loans arranged via a P2P platform, from 6 April 2016 and has published a pub...
09 July 2015 /startups
Not too long ago, Jeff Bezos sparked a tidal wave of controversy when he spoke of the potential of Amazon's 'Prime Air' drone delivery service. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, for packages below 5 pounds ((about 2 Kg) around 86% of Amazon's current deliveries) and with delivery destinations within 30 minutes - Amazon's drone army wil...
03 July 2015 /startups
Duena Blomstrom Knower at Duena Blomstrom Consulting
Preface: Several tens of Challenger Banks are coming to change the Financial Services landscape in the UK. If you’re a banking consumer that is not in our oh-so-controversial Financial Services industry but are counting the days till all these new Challenger banks in the UK hit the market so you can finally have the experience you deserve when y
30 June 2015 /startups
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
There are times and dates in your life when you look back and think – yes, that was when my life did a pivot. When you feel your world turn and find yourself facing a new and sometimes scary direction. I’m not talking about dates you plan and know in advance – like when you graduate from university or get married – but dates that take you by surpri...
25 June 2015 /startups
Abhishek Chatterjee Managing Partner at Gartner Inc.
Modern society is consuming digital services like never before and if this trend continues we will be digitally overwhelmed & fatigued society very soon. There is an insatiable desire to digitize every experience, product, service and business. In such society it is common to have at least 5-6 smart devices in a family - smart phone, smart wri...
21 June 2015 /startups Financial Services Regulation
Back in 2010 the crowdfunding was a fledgling industry. As with much early stage growth, very little notable happened. Move forward five years and the contrast is startling. Namely the man on the street is starting to take notice and get involved. Of course the media have been playing their part for at least a year, with more and more eulogies slo...
17 June 2015 /startups
Injury or subpar performance are risk factors that the professional sports industry spends many millions of pounds/ dollars trying to mitigate. Professional sports teams are starting to use commercially available wearables or their professional versions to monitor not only performance, but the potential for injury, recovery times and lifestyle fac...
08 June 2015 /startups
Banks and financial institutions continue to look at ways to square the circle when it comes to the digital delivery of financial services and enabling a true customer experience in the new digital world. A number of institutions – Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, UBS, Santander, JPMorgan and HSBC to name a few – have carved out dedicated in...
05 June 2015 /retail /startups
“When people come together with a common purpose anything is possible. Entrepreneurs are becoming increasingly empowered and the businesses they’re building have already torn down and transformed entire industries and you under estimate them at your peril.” Last week a crowd of individuals came together to lift a double decker bus off of a trap...
01 June 2015 /wholesale /startups
For anyone starting or joining a startup you need to understand something important. Entrepreneurs, like all creative people, are pure petrol*. Extracting, refining, and transporting petrol is complex, costly, sensitive, time consuming to get right. Even once it’s ready to pump, petrol is delicate and dangerous. Throw it about, it’ll evaporate. Lea...
28 May 2015 /startups
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