Do you know what the smartest part of the iPod launch was in the early 2000s?
Sure, the capacity to hold hundreds of songs was amazing. Yes, the design looked like it had just fallen from a passing UFO. Absolutely,...
Podcast interview with Tim Andrews, Founder at The ID Register
Startup to spin-out
Ask any founder; launching a startup is hard work. So if launching a normal startup is hard work, what's it like to try and launch a startup within...
Alanis Morissette knows how to write a tune. In 1996 she released 'ironic', and whilst it's a solid slice of pop gold, it is lacking in irony.
Bad luck? It's got lots of that, like the old man who turned...
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Interview with Jasper Martens, CMO at PensionBee
Jasper Martens was part of a team of six people when he joined PensionBee in 2015. PensionBee is now a company of over 100 people with plush offices (albeit empty...
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Interview with Mark Oliphant
This week I had the pleasure of interviewing Mark Oliphant, the Head of Communications at The International Stock Exchange (known as TISE - for those wondering, like I was, it's pronounced like...
It's the most common reporting error I see.
Just this week, I was listening to a fantastic interview with the head of a marketing company. The interviewee had successfully engineered a marketing strategy that had delivered a bucket-load of business...
Just under half of UK adults, aged 18 or over display at least one characteristic of vulnerability. That's according to the findings of the FCA's Financial Lives Survey and it equates to 24.1m consumers.
The FCA believes that the COVID-19...
In 2018 Virgin Money (in the UK) was purchased by CYBG plc, the group that owns Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank. The group, now named Virgin Money UK plc will eventually operate under one unified banking brand; Virgin Money.
Disrupting...
Podcast interview with Peter Ramsey (Built for Mars)
UX in banking
If you haven't heard of Peter Ramsey (A.K.A the person behind Built for Mars) and his epic study into the user experience (UX) of banking, it really is time you...
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Interview with Annabel Brodie-Smith
The Financial Marketeer had the pleasure of speaking to Annabel Brodie-Smith recently. Annabel is the Communications Director at the Association of Investment Companies and has seen the industry change and adapt...
