Tag Archives: Banking

The SMF respond to Budget 2015 by saying that while Osborne's Budget didn’t contain the expected pre-election giveaways, it was most certainly aimed at the voting public.

A new SMF report warns that the declining financial position of younger workers and those on low incomes puts a limit on the UK economy’s ability to depend on consumer spending for growth.

The mid-life income squeeze faced by households aged between 35-44 leads almost half (48%) of those who stop saving into a pension do so because of cash flow troubles according to exclusive polling in a new report from leading think tank the Social Market Foundation.

This is an intensely political Autumn Statement with an economic argument behind it. The future course of deficit reduction is specifically designed in order to underline the Conservatives’ long term...

British consumers want better business behaviours in financial services and would be willing to switch provider to get it, according to exclusive polling in a new report from the Social Market Foundation (SMF).

A revolution in retail banking is needed to drive competition and innovation says the Social Market Foundation in its report, Branching Out: the evolution of retail banking, supported by Barclays.

With manifestos on everyone’s minds at the party conferences this year, our quest for catchy policy ideas has been a leitmotif of the SMF’s conference activity.

Rt Hon Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills, has today given a speech to the Social Market Foundation outlining his plans for reforming executive pay.

The new children’s savings scheme, the Junior ISA, is poorly targeted and will benefit the very families who need it least, a leading think tank said today.