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As the fifth largest economy in the world you would expect that housing the nation in adequate accommodation would have always been a priority. Rising homelessness, a reduction in the provision of...
Digital innovation is the ubiquitous buzzword of the moment and with good reason. Technologies that are a central part of our day-to-day lives from APIs and cloud services to digital IDs and...
Improving operational resilience through collaboration
Following the publication of the Discussion Paper by the Bank of England and FCA last Summer, Operational Resilience continues to be a growing topic for all regulated Financial Institutions, and...
“My assessment of recent history is that there has not been a case of a major prudential or conduct failing in a firm which did not have among its root causes a failure of culture as manifested in...
The Money and Pensions Service (MPS) estimates that 10.7 million adults in the UK don’t save regularly, and 11.5 million have less than £100 in savings to fall back on. These figures illustrate...
“She had many opinions but taken together they did not add up to a point of view”. - V. S. Naipaul, Guerrillas, 1975. He could have been writing about the Bank of England. On 5th March 2009 the...
In 2016 I published a blog post on the Monzo website titled: The bank of the future will be a marketplace. I say Monzo, but in fact we were still called Mondo then. Since that post, we’ve changed...
The BSA Yearbook is the official handbook of the Building Societies Association, containing all the latest facts and figures from the UK's mortgage industry. The 2018/19 edition is now available...
As we approach the 150th anniversary of the founding of the BSA, appropriately in a pub in Snow Hill, London (recalling that Ketley’s Building Society was founded in 1775 in a pub in Snow Hill,...
