{"id":90112,"date":"2018-03-19T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c2003de2d10da2d9a48b1d2acd05389b"},"modified":"2018-03-19T08:00:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T08:00:15","slug":"news-story-first-meeting-of-the-financial-inclusion-policy-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=90112","title":{"rendered":"News story: First meeting of the Financial Inclusion Policy Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Industry leaders in finance, consumer groups, and the regulators will meet for the first time today for the Government\u2019s Financial Inclusion Policy Forum.<\/p>\n<p>The Forum\u2019s mission is to ensure that people, regardless of their background or income, have access to useful and affordable financial products and services.<\/p>\n<p>The forum will be co-chaired by John Glen, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury and Guy Opperman, Minister for Pensions and Financial Inclusion, and will meet bi-annually.<\/p>\n<p>The members of the forum are:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Name<\/td>\n<td>Organisation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Phil Andrew<\/td>\n<td>StepChange<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Charles Butterworth<\/td>\n<td>Experian<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Professor Sharon Collard<\/td>\n<td>University of Bristol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Charles Counsell<\/td>\n<td>The Money Advice Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles<\/td>\n<td>Financial Inclusion Commission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Simon Crine<\/td>\n<td>Money and Mental Health Policy Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Joanna Elson OBE<\/td>\n<td>Money Advice Trust<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Huw Evans<\/td>\n<td>Association of British Insurers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jayne-Anne Gadhia<\/td>\n<td>Virgin Money UK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Martin Lewis<\/td>\n<td>Money Saving Expert<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Gillian Guy<\/td>\n<td>Citizens Advice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Stephen Jones<\/td>\n<td>UK Finance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Vim Maru<\/td>\n<td>Lloyds Banking Group<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>David Orr<\/td>\n<td>National Housing Federation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Chris Rhodes<\/td>\n<td>Nationwide<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Marlene Shiels<\/td>\n<td>Capital Credit Union<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jane Vass<\/td>\n<td>AgeUK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Paula Vennells<\/td>\n<td>Post Office Ltd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sian Williams<\/td>\n<td>Toynbee Hall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Chris Woolard<\/td>\n<td>FCA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Rowena Young<\/td>\n<td>Just Finance Foundation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry leaders and consumer groups meet for the first time today for the Government\u2019s Financial Inclusion Policy Forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}