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Financial literacy

  • Saturday, 27 July, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    Access to cash is the tip of a digital iceberg

    Things are getting back to normal after the CrowdStrike debacle. But for millions of UK adults, the online outage continues

    A customer uses an automated teller machine (ATM)
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Would you turn to Reddit for investment ideas?

    It’s no surprise that social platforms are the go-to place when industry communications appear designed to obfuscate

  • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
    Moira O'Neill
    Why are fewer people getting financial advice?

    Numbers are down on last year, thanks in part to the burden of new regulations. But is this necessarily a bad thing?

    Montage of woman from behind with pen and pound signs and exclamation marks
  • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
    Personal debt
    Nearly 3mn fell into financial difficulty last year in the UK

    Study finds more than 20mn people in Britain are now living in vulnerable circumstances

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  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    FT charity appeal
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign

    The FT invites readers to join our campaign to promote financial literacy in the UK and around the world

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  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    Teens lack financial literacy and maths skills for digital economy, OECD report finds

    Study highlights gap in rich countries between access to banking products and an understanding of how finance works

    A teenager holding banknotes and a credit card
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    Moira O'Neill
    Should you really open the Bank of Mum and Dad?

    ‘Nepo-investors’ are on the rise, but will they spend wisely?

  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
    Central banks woo ‘wider audience’ with economy museums

    Sweden’s newly opened Economy Museum is the latest effort to make monetary policy more accessible

    The world’s largest coin, Swedish plate money
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    More effort needed on financial literacy in the UK

    The education system is falling short in teaching this vital life skill

    View of a primary school child’s hands  using coloured cubes to study maths in a school
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    UK schools
    UK primary school children should have better financial literacy education, say MPs

    Calls for review of current maths curriculum to expand ‘the provision and relevance’ of financial education

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  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Financial fraud
    Advisers worry as social media investment scams surge

    Trusted figures often used to persuade people to put money into fraudulent schemes

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  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
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    Investor and ‘Dragon’ Deborah Meaden: ‘I am not mean. What I am is . . . tough’

    The British entrepreneur on going green, improving financial education — and when it’s OK for a vegan to eat eggs

  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
    Personal Finance
    What I wish I’d known before my smartphone was snatched

    As phone theft surges, how can you protect your financial data?

  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    Earn your stripes with Financial Times x With Nothing Underneath’s new boyfriend shirt

    The salmon-pink collaboration is raising funds for the newspaper’s Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign (FLIC)

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  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Have you got five minutes to talk about investing?

    It is high time we normalised conversations about money

  • Monday, 15 April, 2024
    Only 1% of UK primary schoolteachers think pupils have ‘adequate’ financial literacy

    Campaigners warn that confidence in basic numeracy is at a low level among youngsters

    A primary school maths class
  • Saturday, 9 March, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    What women want their financial future to look like

    The Budget and International Women’s Day remind us that the campaign for equality is still far from won

    Illustration of three women, one holding a child with an abacus, against a background of economic charts
  • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
    Financial education in England’s schools a ‘pyrrhic victory’, Martin Lewis says

    Consumer champion tells MPs resources were pulled from private providers after subject’s 2014 addition to curriculum

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  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Isas
    Free reader event: How to make the most of Isas

    Sign up for lunchtime webinar with Claer Barrett and panel on the benefits of tax-free investing

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  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    Free reader event: The true cost of childcare

    Join Mother Pukka and Pregnant then Screwed on International Women’s Day

    Line up of Maike Currie, Hargreaves Lansdown; Claer Barrett, FT; Anna Whitehouse, Mother Pukka; Joeli Brearley, Pregnant then Screwed
  • Tuesday, 2 January, 2024
    UK economy
    One-quarter of UK buy now, pay later users hit by late repayment fees

    Financial education charity warns over risks in rise in use of products that defer or divide payments

    A person uses a buy now, pay later app on a smartphone
  • Saturday, 30 December, 2023
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    Four ways to sort out your financial life in 2024

    New year resolutions to revolutionise your relationship with money

  • Wednesday, 27 December, 2023
    Sheila Bair
    How regulating banks inspired my children’s books

    Financial literacy should start early — the principles will stay with you throughout your life

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  • Tuesday, 26 December, 2023
    Money Clinic with Claer Barrett podcast36 min listen
    How to sort out your financial life in 2024

    If you’re looking for inspiration for managing your money more effectively in 2024, …

  • Tuesday, 19 December, 2023
    Personal Finance
    Sort your financial life out with Claer Barrett - sign up for our six-week email series
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