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Could cryptocurrency help the 鈥榖ottom billion鈥�?

17 Oct 2016

Many of the world鈥檚 poorest poor don鈥檛 have access to a bank account and yet depend on being able to transfer money across borders. Could digital...

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探花直播Bank of England & 探花直播Duke of Wellington.

Opinion: Forget Super Thursday, the Bank of England can only offer Mildly Useful Thursday

03 Aug 2016

Michael Kitson (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses how the Bank of England may try to give the economy a boost.

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Shopping

Spending for smiles: money can buy happiness after all

07 Apr 2016

Money really can buy happiness when spending fits our personality, finds a study based on 77,000 UK bank transactions.

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Crowdfunding

Alternative finance market set to double in 2015

07 Nov 2014

探花直播UK鈥檚 alternative finance market 鈥� which includes crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending and invoice trading 鈥� is set to reach nearly 拢2 billion by...

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That was supposed to be going up, wasn't it?

Stress hormones in financial traders may trigger 鈥榬isk aversion鈥� and contribute to market crises

18 Feb 2014

New study鈥檚 findings overturn theory of personal risk preference as a 鈥榮table trait鈥�, and show that real source of instability in risk behaviour 鈥�...

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Banking Protest.

Fraud claims and board games: What now for regulation and governance?

02 Aug 2012

探花直播author of the report which laid the basis for British and international corporate governance codes will be the guest speaker at a conference...

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Mike Marin.

探花直播crisis of shareholder primacy

19 Mar 2012

If we want to prevent the next financial crisis, a new model of corporate governance is needed to replace shareholder primacy in financial...

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