Wave-and-go smartphone technology – a contactless payment system where you wave your phone over a reader and it takes the payment – is yet to become a mainstream, or even usable, form of payment in the UK. Yet in Japan the technology has been in use for six years, with over 70 million users. A…

Is it me but doesn’t it seem like we’ve been here before? The Greek crisis seems to have been dragging on longer than the Trojan War. It has been vacillating from spikes of on-the-brink debt refinancing, to periods where it has been seemingly out of the news altogether. But this time things appear different, more…

This week Halifax has launched a Smartphone app that boldly goes further than any home hunting app before it. Available on Android and iPhone, Halifax Home Finder has everything you expect from a site/app such as Rightmove, but takes it further. It’s like having Kirstie and Phil – and a bank manager – at hand…