Tag Archives: financial literacy

July 20, 2009 Posted in Business, Economic Development, New Zealand, Society 3 Comments

Individual Credit Ratings – A Blunt Tool for a Big Problem

By Ben Kepes

News this morning that credit rating company Veda Advantage plans to introduce a credit rating system for all New Zealand citizens. The system will; give Kiwis a score from minus 330 to plus 1000. Most people will rate above zero but anyone with a score of less than 100 will

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June 17, 2008 Posted in Economic Development, Society Leave a comment

Feedback that makes it all worthwhile…

By Ben Kepes

Recently I wrote an opinion piece for Unlimited magazine, extolling the benefits of more financial literacy education for students. I’ve copied the full text of the article below for those who want to read it. The other day I received a great email from someone who had read the article,

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May 26, 2008 Posted in Economic Development, Efficiency, New Zealand, SaaS, Society, Strategy 3 Comments

Personal finance

By Ben Kepes

Daniel wrote an excellent post around his ideas for a personal finance web engine. His thoughts around this were in part formed around some comments made by Xero CEO Rod Drury about a Xero “personal edition” that they might possibly be considering. I think the idea (and by extension much

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.