Credit card balances creep up as cost of living starts to bite
After several months of falls, outstanding balances on credit cards have started to creep up again with balances up 3.8% year ..
Finance
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Workplace pension participation soars under auto-enrolment but further reform needed
The workplace pension participation rate in the UK was at 79% (22.6 million employees) in April 2021. Workplace pension par..
Finance
Professor Philip Meissner honoured as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader
The ESCP Professor and Founder of the European Center for Digital Competitiveness has been named a World Economic Forum Young G..
Business
Tech Firm Laiye Closes Series C at $160 Million to Accelerate Global Rollout of Intelligent Automation
Beijing – 19 April, 2022: – Laiye, a leading global intelligent automation company, continues to attract investors ..
Technology
QUARTER OF SAVERS BELIEVE THEIR CURRENT LEVEL OF PENSION SAVING WON’T BE ENOUGH TO LIVE OFF IN RETIREMENT
Just over a quarter of savers surveyed (26%), who have a workplace pension, think that their current amount of pension saving w..
Finance
Crypto-assets: An Emerging Asset Forming Part of Financial Settlements.
Ownership of crypto assets, in particular cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, has rocketed in the past few years. It is therefore unsurp..
Finance
Increase in state pension age creates slump in pensioner taxpayers
There were 6.25 million taxpayers of pension age for the tax year 2019 to 2020 This is a decrease of 4.1% since the previous t..
Investment
Metabolic fitness platform Ultrahuman acquires consumer-focused wearable company LazyCo
Acquisition marks the first step by Ultrahuman to expand the biomarkers complementing its current wearable, the Ultrahuman M1. Creato..
Business
From Slacker to Power Shopper. Gen X – direct-to-consumer ecommerce’s stealth demographic
11 April 2022, Dublin – Gen X consumers, the demographic aged between 41-56, are increasingly shopping direct-to-consumer (DTC) and cr..
Business
State pension increase no match for soaring inflation
From 11 April the state pension increases by 3.1%. This gives someone on a full new state pension £185.15 per week and someone..
Finance