Two headlines on the same day show how financial services regulation is still as ineffective as ever after 20 or 30 years. Promotors of a fake share scheme ‘punished’ five years on by being banned as directors. And millions to be lost by investors in yet another sure-fire property development scheme offering guaranteed returns from so-called ‘mini-bonds’. Surely it just needs someone at the regulator’s office to spend 10 minutes googling around each day to spot these things? Or am I, once again, missing something?
“Advice firm Almond Financial moves to four-day working week”
The Four Day Week was much discussed and trailed post-COVID, when remote-working looked likely to end strap-hanging commutes for good and laptops on the kitchen table were to become the ’new norm’.