This spotlight paper addresses financial vulnerability as a specific challenge for countries, organisations and individuals as an aftermath of COVID-19. The paper briefly highlights the economic impact of the pandemic and the financial vulnerability of workers who have lost their jobs as a...

Nigeria is a key regional player in West Africa with approximately 202 million people: one of the largest populations of youth in the world. This is an enormous market for services. However, there is a low level of financial inclusion. A large proportion of the Nigerian population still live in...

The concept of vulnerability denotes the conflict between the resources available to an individual and the challenges they face in life. Due to personal characteristics and market structures, some consumers are made financially vulnerable, which makes it difficult to access the formal financial...

Universities are under intense pressure to set themselves apart from others, they are rebranding and creating new corporate visual identities, even though not all of them have been all that successful. For those who have successfully rebranded, they provide guidelines which give a broad overview...

The purpose of this study is to examine trends in the use of advertising appeals by banks in the UK advertising mortgages, based on a content analysis of the newspaper advertisements of banks, using a coding system to enable an observation of the content of communication and its categorisation,...

With social media transforming how customers interact with brands, this study explores the consumer –brand relationship in UK energy sector which has a reputation for lack of trust by customers. Using user-generated contents on Facebook pages of the ‘big six' UK energy companies, the study...

Advertising that pushes the boundaries can sometimes be negatively received, some of these advertisements were reported to the regulator of advertising in the UK while Companies has had to apologise for their advertisements. The systemic diversity problem in the advertising industry is also...

Forbes Magazine compiles Highest-Paid Female Athletes in the world; the list contains ten female athletes with the highest earning which includes all prize money, salaries and bonuses earned. This present study analysed the content of these ranking over ten years period from 2009 to 2018 to...

People no longer have to visit a physical store to request a payday loan, there is a shift towards making applications online. While there is considerable debate in the literature about what influences the use of payday loans, the role of advertising has been largelyignored. This study carried...

Buying a home is considered a major financial decision and one of the most expensive purchases an individual can ever make. While acknowledging the complex and multi-faceted due diligence that buyers usually invest before buying houses, the role of advertisements in marketing new-build homes...