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Monica Woodley

Monica is one of our financial services specialists. She has worked as a journalist in London on a variety of financial titles for publishers including the Financial Times, specialising in wealth management and qualifying as a financial adviser. But despite the excitement of covering the financial crisis, nothing can top the adrenaline of Monica’s early days as a journalist – on her first TV news assignment, she had to hang out of a helicopter with a camera to get the shots needed for a story. Beyond finance (and helicopter rides), Monica is fascinated by politics, having lived in Washington DC and earned a master’s degree in politics from Georgetown University.

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Insurers say regulation is making it more difficult to meet consumers' needs

March 4th 2013

The insurance industry has not suffered the same reputation-damaging scandals as the banking industry, however, for some consumers, as insurers are financial institutions they have been tarred with the same brush – and need to prove their worth.

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The future of banking in the palm of your hand

How mobiles are transforming retail banking

December 11th 2012

I wish I had a pound for every time I heard “mobile” at the recent Economist European Retail Banking Summit. After watching how mobile payments system M-Pesa transformed banking in Kenya, developed-world retail bankers have had their eyes opened and now see mobile banking as the next game-changer in their industry.

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What's keeping institutional investors up at night?

October 29th 2012

We recently surveyed institutional investors in the US and Western Europe to investigate their views surrounding tail risk: what specific risks they are concerned about and why, what strategies they have in place to mitigate the impact of tail risk, what they believe other investors know about tail risk and whether tail risk events will happen more frequently and be more severe than in the past.

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