Original Broadcast: Crowdfunders
This is Crowdfunders, the show that covers peer to peer lending and all other forms of crowdfunding. In today's show, Ed Bowsher looks at Platform Black, a peer to peer lending platform that is starting to do a bit of lending itself, plus he also finds out more about a mobile app that's been described as the 'tinder for crowdfunding’ – Offr.
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Original Broadcast: Consuming Issues
Georgie Frost is joined by Hannah Maundrell, editor in chief at Money.co.uk. Today they discuss concerns over workplace discrimination for BAME groups as well as new plans to charge customers £25 to complain about lost luggage and delays. Plus with almost 335,000 registrations sold over the past year they look at the growing demand for personalised plates. All these stories and more on The News Review.
Guests: Hannah Maundrell
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Original Broadcast: Morning Money at 7:00
Alex Lydall, Senior 360 FX Dealer at corporate forex broker Foenix Partners, joined Morning Money’s Directors’ Briefing sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, to discuss retail sales and the post-Brexit impact thus far. Alex also discusses last week’s FOMC Statement and the ongoing outlook of US rate hikes this year.
Guests: Jeremy Batstone-Carr
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Original Broadcast: Morning Money at 6:00
It seems a number of Hedge Funds are investing in "tiny satellites", which have the ability to take high frequency images of "economically sensitive" spots. To find out more, Joe Aldridge has been speaking with Stuart Martin, CEO of independent innovation and technology company, Satellite Applications Catapult.
Guests: Joe Aldridge,Stuart Martin
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Original Broadcast: Shop Floor
Nick talks to Richard Mackinnon about his report, Evidence Matters…Employee Engagement, the Emperor’s New Clothes?, and why it’s important to engage employees to create greater productivity, and whether this works, Tomorrow's Company about business ethics and visits two very charitable individuals in Bognor Regis.
Guests: Richard Mackinnon,Laurie Fitzjohn-Sykes,Danny Dawes,Samantha Staniforth
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Linda meets the team at LimitEar, A UK company which makes equipment to protect headphone and earpiece wearers from lasting damage and hearing loss. With more and more people using headphones on the move, they’ve developed a smartphone app called HearAngel that monitors how you listen and alerts you to overexposure.
Guests: Stephen Wheatley,Richard Glover,Robert Lake
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Linda visits Beauty Boulevard, a company based in Lincoln. Paula Short and Rachel De Caux started off by setting up their own beauty salon. A few years later they decided to look for new products to sell, and found Glitter Lips, which are now stocked in more than 500 shops around the country.
Guests: Paula Short,Rachel De Caux
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Original Broadcast: Marketing Watch
Nicola Mendelsohn, vice president for Facebook EMEA, said last week video content on Facebook is growing more quickly than the company ever anticipated – in one year, video views on Facebook have gone from one billion to 8 billion. And what goes for ordinary people goes double for brands. Nick discusses this with Moz, whose company offers brands and publishers their own video feeds. Plus, have you ever sat in business meetings playing BS Bingo? Ticking off all the clichés your colleagues around you are using? Hamish Thompson created the prbuzzsaw.com web site, where PRs can paste their copy and get it scanned for BS PR buzzwords.
Guests: Moz Dee,Hamish Thompson
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Original Broadcast: Share Politics
A report published this week by Amnesty International has described the torture of thousands of Syrian civilians suspected of not supporting Assad's regime. The human rights charity estimates that more than 17,700 people have died in detention since the start of the conflict, or 10 people a day. To discuss the report, Colin spoke with Kristyan Benedict, Amnesty's Syria Campaign manager.
Guests: Kristyan Benedict
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It's been two weeks since the Bank of England cut interest rates to a historic low of just 0.25% and some banks and building societies have wasted no time in cutting the interest rates on their accounts. So can you get any kind of return on your savings? How do you know if your account is paying a terrible rate and who is paying the most? Sarah's joined by Sally Francis of MoneySavingExpert and Hannah Maundrell, editor at money.co.uk.
Guests: Sally Francis,Hannah Maundrell
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