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Chris Ennew

Professor of Marketing, Nottingham UK

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A Question of Trust?

I’ve been working on trust in financial services for almost 9 years now, under the auspices of the Financial Services Research Forum (FSRF) at the University of Nottingham. Our work has attracted lots of attention and has been widely used by a range of industry stakeholders, but we also want it to “make a difference” – …

Why Andrew Bailey is right and why it’s a dangerous commitment to have made

Andrew Bailey, the soon-to-be chief regulator of the financial services industry has reportedly described himself as “like a dog with a bone” over the distortionary consequences of “free in-credit” banking which he has as a “dangerous myth”. His speech to the press rehearsed many of the well-known arguments about implicit or covert pricing versus explicit …