Financial inclusion and FinTech.
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If hiring a cleaner on £12 an hour stops young professionals from saving for a £50,000+ mortgage deposit, how do you think the cleaner might do it? 💸 xitter.cf/standardnews/status/10…
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Today, we're calling on the next UK Government to bring forward a National Financial Inclusion Strategy to address the high levels of financial exclusion across the UK.
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Today we're launching a new report calling on the next UK Government to bring forward a National Financial Inclusion Strategy.
Read more on our website: financialinclusioncommission…
ALT The case for prioritising a new National Financial Inclusion Strategy: 22% of adults have started or increased their borrowing because of the cost of living (ONS) 14% of transactions are made with cash (UK Finance) 50% of those aged 75+ used a bank branch in the last year (FCA) 5% of households have no current account (DWP) 15% of UK adults (8.1 million people) need debt advice (MaPS)
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As the UK General Election approaches, we at the Financial Inclusion Commission (FIC) are thrilled to see significant financial inclusion policies in the manifestos of major parties.
Been too busy to keep up? Here's a round up, in order of when the manifestos came out 🧵👇
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CAMPAIGN WIN!
On this #InternationalWomensDay
we're delighted to see @CommonsTreasury
calling for legislation to #EndSalaryHistory
amongst other recommendations to make the City fairer, and safer, for women.
committees.parliament.uk/com…
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Want to inspire inclusion this International Women's Day at your workplace? Show the salary. sifted.eu/articles/job-adver…
Stop blaming women for not investing 🛑🛑
This International Women's Day, please help me, a woman, promote this article I wrote, ta 🙏🏻
If you need someone to help with training or longer-term projects on this, you know who to call (me. It's me).
linkedin.com/pulse/stop-blam…
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🚨OUT TODAY: New paper on using inclusive design to create a fair transition to net zero
👇🧵We worked with @Ofgem and @ToynbeeHall to show that inclusive design of policy can help to ensure essential services meet the needs of all consumers, including people on low incomes.
Gosh, this photo is 5 years old already 🙃🥹
Some context: Toucan started life as the winning project at the @santanderuk Open Banking hackathon back in March 2018 🏆
Since then it's been shortlisted for a @AgeInnovations award and featured in the @FT ft.com/content/c24cd8a8-e9b9…
More Toucan-related news coming soon 👀
Event, next Thurs 23rd:
Did Open Banking help improve the lives of local residents in Lambeth and Southwark living with health conditions?
We'll do our best to answer this and more next Thursday. Join us!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-bank…
I'm looking forward to sharing the findings of @comuzi_lab's study next Thursday, and of course we'll be discussing them with the researchers and partners at the event.
Sign up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-bank…
Update: The report is out now!
Read the full report or a summary PDF from here: bailey.work/open-banking
Thank you to everyone who came to our report launch yesterday on Open Banking for Financial Health.
For anyone who'd like to read the full report, you can find it here: bailey.work/open-banking
It was great to attend todays Community Fintech event held at @SomersetHouse This launched the research project report looking at ‘Open Banking for Financial Health’ led by @comuzi_lab @baileytalks and funded by @ImpUrbanHealth
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It was great to attend todays Community Fintech event held at @SomersetHouse This launched the research project report looking at ‘Open Banking for Financial Health’ led by @comuzi_lab @baileytalks and funded by @ImpUrbanHealth
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“So far in our pilots 140 women have moved £1.2 million for the planet and every woman has reported feeling more able to align her finances with her values”
Amazing work by the @annekadeva and @money_movers_ - here’s to the next millions moved for the planet🌍💰
Request for help 🙏🏻 Does anyone know of any central London office space where the company is looking for another team to sublet or office-share 2/3 days a week?
We have around 16 people who need a place to work from together, with some limited equipment.
We're very friendly 😊
Twitter! In 2023 I'm doing more things that scare me.
First up is I'm playing my 1st 'proper' gig in about 15 years 🙈
If you're free this Thurs and in London, please come along!
If not, help me out and give this Tweet a quick like or retweet 🙏🏻
eventbrite.co.uk/e/protest-m…
PS: Yes, I write and perform original protest songs. Some more info here: bailey.work/music
More coming over the next few months 👀