39 days ago by Lindsay Mackie

Lindsay Mackie is a consultant at nef. She is leading nef’s post office campaign and works on Clone Town and Ghost Town Britain. The Prime Minister’s commitment to bringing Post Office banking into the heart of communities, and to giving the Post Office a much greater role in the economy, is a brill ...

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70 days ago by progressive-economy@tasc

Michael Taft: With all the debates over the crucial issues of NAMA, bank recapitalisation, purging impaired assets, etc. – it is sometimes easy to forget that these are instrumental; that we are not repairing broken banks for the sake of it (as if their dereliction constituted an environmental eyeso ...

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76 days ago by msbaroque

Some of you may remember how excited we were here in Baroque Mansions over the Facebook language option of “English (Pirate).” The Baroque Facebook was set on Pirate for months. (I know: lame. I just never got tired of it.) Well, now an ATM operator in the East End of London is introducing a similar ...

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94 days ago by progressive-economy@tasc

Paula Clancy: Last December, TASC organised a seminar on financial exclusion. The day before, Sean Fitzpatrick resigned as chairman of Anglo Irish Bank following revelations that, over a period of eight years to 2007, he had temporarily transferred loans with Anglo Irish Bank to another bank. Earlie ...

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219 days ago by Gill Montia

Nationwide has committed £3.2 million in support of disadvantaged groups across the UK. The money is available to address issues of housing and financial exclusion through a new grant programme and an investor programme. Applications for grants of up to £300,000 can be made to the building society’s ...

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227 days ago by Andy Wimbush

Andy Wimbush is nef’s Communications Assistant and blogmaster. He also draws cartoons for nef’s newspaper. It’s been over a week now since we launched our proposal for a People’s Bank based at the Post Office. In a packed committee room in the Houses of Parliament we heard politicians of all stripes ...

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242 days ago by nef

To mark the publication of I.O.U.K.: banking failure and how to build a fit financial sector - nef’s new report on banking - the nef triple crunch blog is staging a debate. Sargon Nissan, one of the authors of the report, kicks things off. Replies from our special guest bloggers will be posted below ...

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