Showing posts with label Finance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Finance. Show all posts
Monday, 19 November 2018

Nearly 6m people in the UK are invisible to the financial system

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"Almost 6m people in the UK are “invisible” to the financial system, causing them to be excluded from mainstream financial products and...
Monday, 6 November 2017

Contactless payments account for 45% of Visa's transactions in the UK

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Fun fact from Visa’s Oliver Jenkyn: Contactless payments = 91% transactions 🇦🇺, 45% 🇬🇧, 5% 🇺🇸 #money2020 — Chloe Cornish (@ChloeNCo...
Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Active bank accounts per 1,000 people in Africa

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Source:   IMF, via Gates Notes, January 2015
Monday, 14 July 2014

People who are careful with money have fewer car crashes

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"The [insurance] industry has started quietly trawling customers’ finances and other sources of “big data”, after proving that those wh...
Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Online & mobile banking in the UK

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"The way people manage their money is undergoing a major revolution, with the number of payments made through banking applications on m...
Tuesday, 3 September 2013

The demographics of Wonga customers in the UK

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Click to enlarge Source:   Wonga, retrieved 3rd September 2013 Also - Wonga has more than a million customers
Wednesday, 14 August 2013

A tweet from a billionaire investor added 5% to the value of Apple stock

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We currently have a large position in APPLE. We believe the company to be extremely undervalued. Spoke to Tim Cook today. More to come. — ...
Monday, 13 May 2013

There is a correlation between page views on Wikipedia and stock market performance

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"A flood of views to a company's Wikipedia page may be a sign that their stock price is about to plummet. That's the implicati...
Monday, 8 April 2013

28% of American mobile phone users and 48% of smartphone users used mobile banking in 2012

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"A new study by the Federal Reserve Board revealed yet more strides being made in the area of mobile banking. It found 28 per cent of ...
Monday, 18 March 2013

Kiva has made loans to more than 1 million people

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"Kiva, the world's largest crowdfunding platform for social good, announced today that it has reached over 1 million people in more...
Wednesday, 16 January 2013

Instant messaging is more popular than search in China

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Click to enlarge Source:   CNNIC via Marbridge Daily, 15th January 2013
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Friday, 14 September 2012

19 million drivers are covered by 'black box' car insurance

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"Google recently announced huge steps forward with their self-driving cars, and while we may not have reached the future automobiles en...
Friday, 17 August 2012

An estimated 475m people in sub-Saharan Africa have no access to bank accounts

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"The surprising fact is Africa’s poor represent a vast reserve of untapped capital waiting to be channeled into consumer and small-busi...
Friday, 13 July 2012

180,000 'black box' car insurance policies were sold in the UK in H1 2012

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" Sales of telematic, or ‘black-box’, car insurance will reach 500,000 in the next two years, according to the British Insurance Broker...
Tuesday, 3 April 2012

UK Online Ad Spend Rose to £4,784m in 2011, up 14.4% Y-o-Y

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"Despite the backdrop of a depressed UK economy, advertising on the internet increased by 14.4% to a new high of £4,784 million in 2011...
Friday, 23 March 2012

American Express' twitter campaign generated an estimated 160,000 tweets and $7.2m in spend on the cards

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"A campaign launched by American Express in the first week of March on Twitter has generated some eye-brow raising numbers.  Called Twe...
Thursday, 17 November 2011

Transactions on Kenya's M-Pesa mobile money service exceed transactions made by Western Union globally

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"Local transactions by Kenya’s mobile money service, M-Pesa currently exceed transactions made by Western Union globally, the Internati...
Thursday, 6 October 2011

Microfinance company Kiva has loaned nearly $250m in 5 years

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"Since Kiva was founded in 2005: 629,358 Kiva lenders $248 million in loans 98.87% Repayment rate We work with: 142 Field Partners...
Friday, 8 July 2011

40% of American - & 25% of British - mobile web users use mobile banking services

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"Young owners of smartphones in Britain and the United States are increasingly managing their finances via their phones, checking accou...
Wednesday, 30 March 2011

52% of Chinese mobile internet users use mobile banking

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"According to the "2011 China Mobile Banking Industry User Survey" recently issued in Beijing by Chinese mobile internet port...