Financial services companies rely and are based on technology. They spend big bucks trying to get it right, and often fail. Quilter, formerly Old Mutual and Skandia, has spent 6 years and £360m and still not been able to launch its new platform. So whoever is working on the NHS contact tracing systems, which will have been developed and ready to roll out to millions in the space of a few weeks, should be able to name their own price in the private sector. If they work. Which I’m sure they will. Won’t they?
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Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a client, or more likely potential client, rub us up the wrong way, are a declared anti-vaxxer or support the barges, can we not, as a business, say ‘Be Gone’?
