Savings Guru have been awarded 'Highly Commended' in the 'Consultancy of the Year' category at the British Bank Awards 2021

James appeared on BBC Radio Essex to talk to Sonia Watson about his collection of piggy banks and money boxes, the history of savings and his plans to open a museum of savings in 2002

James is a guest from 1hr 38 minutes and 15 seconds onwards and you can listen to him here

George Nixon of personal finance website, This Is Money, recently visited Savings Guru HQ to talk to James and Tanya about their plans to open a museum of savings featuring James' impressive collection of over 400 piggy banks, money boxes and savings paraphernalia.

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Savings Guru shortlisted for 2021 British Bank Awards

Savings Guru are thrilled to announce that the firm is a finalist as ‘Consultancy of the Year’ at the 2020 British Bank Awards. 

Savings Guru are delighted to announce that the business has been nominated for ‘Consultancy of the Year’ at the 2020 British Bank Awards.

Savings Guru was named runner up in the 'Consultancy of the Year’ category of the 2019 British Bank Awards on Thursday 7th March.  The Award was won by 11:FS who create digital propositions for banks.  Founder James Blower, commenting after the Awards, said: “It’s a tremendous honour to finish runner-up in the Awards to finish ahead of global heavyweight consultancies such as Deloitte, CapGemini and Capco.  Congratulations to 11:FS on winning and a huge ‘thank you’ to all our clients, website users and supporters who nominated us and voted for us.”

Founder James Blower will be a key note speaker at CACI’s annual Savings Conference to be held on Tuesday 19th March 2019 at the Wellcome Collection Conference Centre in London.  

Following a successful appearance in 2018, James has been invited back to address CACI members.  

He will be talking about the future of the savings market and the impact of new entrant banks to an audience of around 120 delegates representing retail savings providers from across the UK.  Also presenting are Nationwide’s Nathan Miles and CACI’s Mark Edwards.

On Wednesday 23rd January 2019, James Blower was a guest on the This is Money podcast alongside presenter Georgie Frost and Daily Mail Consumer Affairs Editor, Lee Boyce.  In the ‘Savings Special’ James and Lee discussed a host of savings topics and the show will air on Friday 25th January.

This is Money is the financial arm of The Daily Mail and the podcast is available via https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/podcast/index.html as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts and many more podcast platforms.

We are thrilled to announce that Savings Guru has been shortlisted as a finalist in the ‘Consultancy of the Year’ category at The British Bank Awards.  The firm is up against industry heavyweights Deloitte, Cap Gemini, Capco and 11:FS.

The British Bank Awards recognise the best products, hottest innovation and most trusted financial brands and are seen as the ‘Oscars' of the banking world.

On hearing the news, Savings Guru founder, James Blower, said ‘Awards that are voted for by customers are particularly special and I’m humbled that we’ve made the final five for such a prestigious award.  I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has helped us on our journey and I look forward to the awards ceremony on the 7th March!’

Voting for the awards continues until 10th February 2019 and you can cast your vote here:  https://smp.reviews/british-bank-awards-2019-survey

Founder James Blower will be a key note speaker at CACI’s annual Savings Conference to be held on Wednesday 7th March at the Wellcome Collection Conference Centre in London.  

James will be talking about the future of savings to over 70 delegates representing retail savings providers from across the UK.  

Also presenting are Simon Betteridge, Savings and Propositions Director at Barclays, who will talk about changing consumer behaviour in the savings market and CACI’s Mark Edwards, who will present a view from CACI’s database.

Savings Guru are delighted to announce that our Founder, James Blower, will be appearing on the Feelgood Saturday show with Naomi Sayers on Saturday 6th January from 10 – 12.  James will be talking about his work and answering listeners questions on all things savings and finance.  

Listeners in Essex can tune in on 98.0FM and other areas can listen online via: http://www.phoenixfm.com/listen-live/