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The Metaverse is an immersive, online space where our avatars (3D representations of ourselves) can walk around, interact with others, learn, play games and go shopping.

Coronavirus restrictions forced many of us to fundamentally change how we live and work, which in turn affected how we spend our money.

Financial knowledge and awareness can affect countless aspects of our lives, from being able to budget for our weekly food shop and pay bills, to meeting our mortgage payments and having enough money to live off during retirement.

We have all read about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) and the impact they are going to have on the world. There have been plenty of lurid headlines about the ‘millions of jobs’ that will be lost to AI.

The pandemic brought with it many unpleasant economic side-effects: problems in global supply chains and now, as the world tries to recover, rapidly rising inflation and interest rates.

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A key initiative of the Plastic Free Foundation, Plastic Free July is a challenge aimed at helping us to reconsider the amount of single use plastic that we use on a regular basis. By challenging ourselves to reduce our consumption throughout July, it is hoped that…

Rising petrol prices are yet another mounting expense at a time when people’s utility and grocery bills are soaring. So it’s perhaps no surprise that many of us are looking again at how we use our cars.

More and more of us are taking advantage of services such as Klarna, Laybuy and Clearpay, so we can pay for purchases in instalments interest-free over a set period. But as the buy now, pay later market grows, is it time for it to be more heavily regulated?

In the last few months, working from home has become a topic that’s up there with speed cameras and parking tickets.

Many of us will have spent the last two years longing for the time when most of the UK population had a good immunity against Covid-19, and pandemic restrictions were either being eased or completely dropped.

We thought you'd like to get to know our new financial planner, Shane Presley. So, Marian, our marketing and communications assistant, had a chat with him to find out more.