Gender equality & ageing
Thursday 21 March 2019
As revealed in last year’s gender pay gap report mandated by the U.K. government, women earned on average 59 percent less than men at HSBC, Britain’s biggest bank. Fast forward one year, HSBC’s gender pay gap appeared to have expanded to 61 percent. By comparison, Lloyds Banking Group reported a 31.5 percent gap, and across
A plea to entrepreneurs. Pensions need you.
Wednesday 20 March 2019
Huge market The first thing to note about the UK long-term savings market is its size. The UK asset management industry manages nearly £8tn of assets, 2/3rds of which are the longterm savings of UK citizens. This already large market is also sub-scale. Basically, lots of people don’t have any longterm or even short-term savings
- Published in Ageing, AI, Blockchain, Diversity, Featured, Fintech, Future trends, Innovation, Machine learning
What can we learn from Japan?
Wednesday 13 March 2019
As humanity lives longer and longer, could there ever be a scenario where we are no more? According to the new book Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline by Canadian journalist John Ibbitson and political scientist Darrell Bricker, this could very well be the future of humanity. Per the authors, the United Nations
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Financial Burden Of Caregiving: What Is The Value We Place On Care?
Thursday 07 March 2019
As we live longer and the cost of healthcare increases, where would we turn to for support? For many, that responsibility falls largely on their family members. More often than not, these caregivers are those that belong to the sandwiched generation, ones with their own family and children that they are taking care of. In
- Published in Ageing, Diversity, Featured, Fintech, Innovation
Fintech – Ending Financial Exploitation
Wednesday 06 March 2019
Fraud is a serious and persistent issue across the financial services sector and no one is immune from those who wish to part us from our money. The incentives (and rewards) for bad actors are too compelling and they follow customers across all of their financial journeys, from the doorstep to the branch to ATMS
- Published in Ageing, data protection, Diversity, Fintech, Future, Future trends, Innovation, security