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5 Things My Father Taught Me About Money

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Learning how to manage finances is a lifelong process. Here are five dad-approved tips to help you manage your money better! Let’s face it, financial advice from fathers is usually beneficial. My grandfather had seven sons, the third of whom was my father. Obviously, growing up in such a large family was not easy. My grandparents, on the other hand, did an excellent job of preparing seven young boys for life. . ?

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The Covid loans, the billionaire … and Starling, the very fast-growing bank

TheGuardian

In 2019, it had lent just £23m. By June 2021, it had issued £1.6bn of bounce-back lending – and an ex-minister has questions Aboard his 92-foot yacht in the Bahamas in June 2015, the reclusive Austrian-born billionaire Harald McPike was investigating a new moneymaking opportunity. Decades after reportedly making his first fortune in blackjack, the gambler turned investor had set his sights on the burgeoning UK fintech market and invited the founder of Starling Bank, Anne Boden, aboard.

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Questions over how Starling Bank handed out 15,000 Covid loans a month

TheGuardian

Bounce-back lender criticised by ex-minister over fraud controls added almost 250,000 new accounts in pandemic, analysis shows The online bank singled out by a former government minister over the effectiveness of its counter-fraud measures was “onboarding” an average of 15,000 new customers a month during the Covid crisis, according to analysis by the Observer.