Here’s one in the eye for those tech-sceptics, forever saying ‘Yes, but if Russian hackers/Asteroids/Pick-your-own-Conspiracy theory, take the internet down, the financial world will fold, wasn’t like that when we all had quills, etc. What happens in your cosy, old-fashioned world when the paper runs out? Aberdn (Standard Life as was, marketing gone mad) can’t send voting forms to their shareholders because they can’t get the paper. And the irony is, they’re asking them to vote on whether or not they should buy a technology company! Couldn’t write it, could you, even if you had something to write on.
“Platforms call for UK government to resist launching ‘retrograde’ British ISAs”
There is a school of thought which might say that, should you wish to revive and encourage investment in the UK Stockmarket, a starting point might be the reversal of Brexit.
