Guest Blog: does the growth of Peer-to-Peer signal a changing of the guard in the personal finance sector?

Alex Gowar from leading p2p finance website RateSetter.com explains how consumers are waking up to the alternatives to traditional banking:

Guest Blog: Ethical Bank Calls on Financial Opaqueness

Charles Middleton, UK managing director at Triodos Bank, comments on last week’s UK banking crisis:

‘Last week’s events have highlighted very clearly the extent to which something is rotten in the state of UK…

Response to Diamond interview: Banking scandal turning into a political crisis

Today Bob Diamond, who has recently stepped down as CEO of Barclays,
 appeared in front of Parliament to answer questions about revelations
 that the bank was fixing interest rates.

Better Banking in Action: A Credit Union Open Day. Sat 6th October, Hackney

As scandal after scandal blows up in the papers, and the behaviour of our big banks goes from bad to worse, it’s easy to get despondent about the state of our banking system and the colour of our…

National Ethical Investment Week is coming — and it’s not just for investors

Lately, the finance industry has been patting itself on the back. Despite the rapid approach of the 4 year anniversary of the financial crisis (which cost us £37bn in bailouts), the big banks have…