Lessons from Wonga Wonga was lauded as an innovative and technologically savvy company. It was using fintech, big data and automated decision-making to make high-cost, short-term payday loans. But its business model depended on high-cost loans, repeat customers, weak affordability…

EVENT: Banks, Frauds and Accomplices Anthony Stansfeld, Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner 9.00am-10.15am, Tuesday 10th July 2018, Committee Room 14, House of Commons To register please email dominic.lindley@newcityagenda.co.uk On 2nd February 2017, six people, including two former employees of HBOS, were…

Which way will the FCA jump on overdraft charges? At the New City Agenda event on the future of high-cost credit, Andrew Bailey, CEO of the FCA said that the regulator would soon be making an announcement about overdrafts and…

EVENT: Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking & the Regulatory State Sir Paul Tucker, Chair Systemic Risk Council 9.00am-10.15am, Tuesday 12th June 2018, Committee Room 14, House of Commons To read a transcript of this event please…

EVENT: “Lessons from the banking crisis: How much has really changed?” Ian Fraser, Financial Journalist and Author of Shredded: Inside RBS, the bank that broke Britain 9.00am-10.15am, Wednesday 16th May, Committee Room 10, House of Commons To register please email…

EVENT: The Future of High Cost Credit: Fintech and Other Stories Andrew Bailey (CEO, FCA), Which?, Sian Williams (Toynbee Hall) 9.00am-10.30am, Wednesday 2nd May, The Attlee Suite, Portcullis House To register please email dominic.lindley@newcityagenda.co.uk It is now 4 years since…

EVENT: The Future of the UK’s Cash Machine Network LINK, Which?, Nicky Morgan MP (Chair, Treasury Select Committee), Cardtronics (ATM Operator) 3.30pm-5pm, Monday 26th February, Committee Room 10, House of Commons To register please email dominic.lindley@newcityagenda.co.uk New City Agenda are…

Lord McFall: Proposals for free cash machine network are a leap in the dark Lord McFall has responded to a consultation from LINK on how banks fund the network of free-to-use cash machines.​ Lord McFall said “LINK are taking a…

EVENT: How Much Is Too Much? Why the Treasury View is Wrong, and Why We Must be Far More Ambitious about our National Debt Tuesday 12th December, 9.00am-10.15am, Committee Room 10, House of Commons John Penrose MP Reaction from Lord Macpherson,…

EVENT: Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought – Professor Andrew Lo, MIT Tuesday 28th November, 9.00am-10.15am, Committee Room 10, House of Commons To register please email dominic.lindley@newcityagenda.co.uk Economists can’t agree on whether investors and markets are rational…