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Melvin Haskins

Melvin Haskins

Managing Director at Haston International Limited
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OCC's former Chief Fintech Officer had CV full of falsehoods - report

  Ketharaman - As someone who has run a headunting and consulting business in the IT field in finance for 35 years I can assure you that any recruitment business seeking to fill a senior role is expected to carry out due dilligence before putting the candidate forward, let alone after the event. I have to admit I have no knowledge of what happens if the organisation advertises and recruits direct but, again from experience, they usually outsource the responses to an ad to a recruitment company to whittle down the list to a manageable number (it is not unusual to get thousands of responses to an ad). As a result, I think that it is highly unlikely that the OCC did not get outside help, but in this latter case they would not check references.

27 Nov 2023 Reply Read article

A deep dive on the benefits of Variable Recurring Payments

  As someone with numerous VADDs (Variable Amount Direct Debits) on their bank account to pay everything from credit cards, council tax, insuance policies, etc., I can see very little difference. VADDs have been in existence for more than 40 years and work well. They are not very difficult to set up.

14 Nov 2023 Reply Read article

Hanging by a thread: Is incumbent bank loyalty under threat?

  Having spent 17 years as a Coutts customer and one year with HSBC Premium (which was a disaster), I moved to Nationwide Building Society and have not looked back. They are excellent. Who needs a neobank?

08 Nov 2023 Reply Read article

Nationwide overtakes major banks for branch-based banking

  But they have still managed to close two of my local branches - Whetsone & Southgate. In addition, the Moorgate Branch, which is my work branch, is closed on Mondays & Thursdays. Yes, they are doing better than most of the high street banks, but I am not impressed by the PR.

09 Oct 2023 Reply Read article