Last night saw the second annual Neil Mainland Go-Karting fundraiser in aid of the Bobby Moore Fund and MacMillan Cancer Support. Over 50 people raced in teams in the hope to reach the top of the podium and be crowned this year’s champions. The trophy was hotly contested but it was Team Mainland that accelerated [...]
So everything is crystal clear, the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) has been introduced, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned rebates and transparency reigns in the financial industry; consumers are rejoicing – well not quite. From Key Investor Information Documents (KIIDs )to the more recent proclamation from the Investment Management Association (IMA) calling for [...]
Governments and financial regulators always claim that the regulations they introduce are done so for the most well-meaning of reasons. But far too often, whether through lack of proper consultation or hasty preparation, regulations can have unforeseen consequences. When the Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) Retail Distribution Review (RDR) came into force at the beginning of [...]
Last week a teenager sold an app to Yahoo! that he had designed while still at school in a deal worth tens of millions of pounds. Nick D’Aloisio created the tool, named Summly, at his home in Wimbledon, south-west London, at the age of just 15, and now two years on he is a multi [...]
One of the advantages of using an external agency to manage a company’s public relations is the market intelligence the agency obtains on their clients’ behalf. It’s human nature to be more comfortable talking to a third party so an agency routinely gathers opinion about its clients and their rivals from journalist and industry contacts [...]
No, this isn’t the setup to the kind of joke my grandfather loved to tell; this was the situation at Broadgate Mainland recently as we held our Digital Trends panel discussion: Sex, Trolls and Double Standards: Protecting your corporate reputation online. The discussion set out to address a reasonably familiar problem: what are the burning [...]
Tough Times Ahead for National Newspapers The January UK sales statistics for printed national newspapers make grim reading for publishers. The only newspaper reporting a year on year increase was the ‘I’(+39.2%) while six papers including the FT (-15.3%), Independent (-44.8%) and The Guardian (-12%) recorded a double digit decline in sales. Over the last [...]
What’s the point of social media for financial services companies? I was asked by a client recently. Easy peasy, I thought, and started trotting out well practised verses including phrases like “engagement” and “community”. Yes, but why should we do it? He asked. What’s the benefit to my business? I was momentarily stumped. Working in [...]
News that Sir Mike Rake is to step down as Chairman of easyJet having presided over three highly successful years, including the appointment of Carolyn McCall as CEO in 2010, is sad news for the majority of shareholders, though probably not Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou and others family members who recently sold shares in easyJet (21 [...]
If you’ve not heard the word ‘immoral’ frequently over recent times, then it’s fair to say you’ve either been living under a bush or in a forest in Borneo. Immoral is surely becoming the buzz word as 2012 rolls into 2013. The failure of multinationals such as Amazon, Starbucks and Google to pay their “fair [...]
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