* Posts by miramon

3 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Mar 2012

FCA drafts new rules to protect crowdfunders' lenders

miramon

Re: Loan based crowdfunding sites?

Take a look at FundingCircle.com for an example - they're advertising all over the Tube.

Banking IT cowboys 'need whipping into shape by watchdog'

miramon
Meh

Intellect

Intellect's been around for 10-12 years. I've been to some of their workshops. You have to remember that they are an organisation of IT vendors and related suppliers (lots of lawyers for some reason) so they are usually going to recommend something that involves spending lots of money. They tend to exist as a way for government departments to find out how much their latest bright idea is really going to cost (I remember a workshop where the Dept of Schools and Families wanted to give every kid a laptop and were sitting there agape as a guy from HP was totting up exactly how much this meant in support costs, spares and loads of stuff they hadn't thought about). There is a tendency for those meetings to get hijacked by salesmen and entrepreneurs with axes to grind though, it looks like that might have happened here.

Brits trapped in confusing council website labyrinths - survey

miramon

Re: Why?

All councils don't deliver the same services. Just at a high level, rural councils deliver different services to urban ones, unitary councils deliver different services to district councils. Councils which are on the sea have different services to landlocked ones (and the services are different again if they have a port). The last Labour government tried to replace all council websites with DirectGov and had to scale back its plans when it became obvious that there were problems with that approach.