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Rob De Dominicis CEO and Managing Director at GBST
A study by Barclays on financial wellbeing in the workplace found that almost half of us (46%) worry about money and for one in five it affects our sleep and our performance at work. Clearly our personal wellbeing is closely linked to our financial wellbeing. As Mr Micawber famously says in Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, “Annual income twenty ...
15 November 2016 /inclusion
The customer has always been king. Customer engagement is the holy grail of marketing; creating an emotional attachment to a brand can create loyalty which means longer-term, less price sensitive and therefore more profitable customers. Customer engagement can make a significant financial difference: research from Gallop in 2014 found that custome...
10 November 2016
The idea of Pensions ISAs was raised earlier this year; to make pensions more like ISAs where contributions are taxed but gains and withdrawals are tax free. This is opposite to the current pension system where tax relief is paid on contributions, gains are subject to a lifetime limit and withdrawals (excluding the first 25% and small pots) are ta...
19 September 2016 /inclusion
The Centre for Policy Studies, a think tank, recently suggested in a report that pension pots worth £2,000 or less should not face any fees or charges. They argued that this, coupled with the planned pension dashboard which the UK government has pledged will be introduced by 2019, will help encourage providers to promote consolidation of small pen...
17 July 2016 /inclusion
Blockchain technologies are being investigated by many in the industry to rebuild and disrupt the way financial markets operate. Arguably the most important blockchain technology, as it applies to capital markets, is distributed ledger technology (DLT), which could potentially remove many of the inefficiencies and costs inherent in today’s market ...
04 July 2016
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