Thoughts, stories and insight from the TotallyMoney.com team
It’s awards season and TotallyMoney.com is mixing it with some major league players in shortlists for the DADIs and the Masters of Marketing. Our Commuter Hotspots Tool has been shortlisted in the Branded Content category at The Drum Awards for Digital Industries (DADI) awards. The interactive map that allows users to narrow down their search for…
Last week, the FCA published their Credit Card Market Final Findings and announced the introduction of measures designed to protect consumers. The publication highlighted two particular concerns. First, that a significant number of people in the UK carry potentially problematic debt for a number of years – they found that 650,000 people had been in…
Mastercard recently launched a new logo, and for any brand as ubiquitous as theirs it’s an event that will always carry an element of risk. Despite the rigour of the design process and the nous of the people involved, you never really know how well it’s going to go until it’s out there — how…
We’ve given the meeting rooms here at TotallyMoney.com a lick of paint. Following a Crystal Maze theme, each room is modelled on one of the hit ’90s gameshow’s zones: Aztec, Industrial, Futuristic and Medieval, with the boardroom taking its cue from the ultimate Crystal Dome destination. Why the Crystal Maze? Well, it was something…
Continuing the theme of Microsoft’s recent endeavours to move their entire development stack towards a platform agnostic, more Open Source world, I thought I’d share some of the adventures I’ve had along this bleeding edge of development. Here at TotallyMoney.com, we are happy to have been early adopters of .Net Core, using it to power…
Are you a Fiery Red? A Sunshine Yellow? An Earth Green? Perhaps you are a Cool Blue? An excellent training session that some of us at TotallyMoney.com undertook with Ralph Peters of Inspire Results reminded us that a little awareness, of self and others, can go a long way in making our day to day…
The number of complaints received by the financial ombudsman service about credit cards has fallen for the third consecutive year. The ombudsman’s annual review of consumer complaints, published today, reported 8,200 received complaints in 2016, down from 19,634 in 2013; a drop of 58% over three years.1 Many of the complaints received were about claims…
On Wednesday, Google announced that, from 13 July 2016, it will no longer allow ads for payday loans, which it defines as any loan where the repayment is due within 60 days of the date of issue. In the USA, ads will also be banned if they have an APR of 36% or higher. The…
Many of these rules relate to software development, but can be applied more broadly and produce some interesting learnings for business. Occam’s Razor The simplest answer is usually correct. Recognised long before the time of William of Ockham, after whom the rule is named, the learning from this rule is that minimising your assumptions can…
Rust is a systems programming language designed to be safe and fast, both very useful things when writing a production web service. I needed to parse some output from the popular Logentries platform, so I sat down for a few hours and wrote a small service in Rust to fetch and parse the data, and…