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North Wales Live
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- North Wales Live
Jewellery brand loved by Kate Middleton launches £29 collection perfect for anyone proud to be Welsh
As we say in Welsh, 'nid aur yw popeth melyn' ('not everything yellow is gold'), and in the case of Clogau, sometimes precious things come in beautiful silver, rose gold and red tones, with the added celebration of Welsh identity. The jewellery brand started after a man named William Roberts discovered an abandoned gold mine in the mountains of Eryri in the 1980s. Since then, Clogau has been crafting jewellery using gold sourced from the very same mine that adorns the Royal Family's wedding rings. King Charles and Queen Camilla, Princess of Wales Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle all sport Welsh gold. Clogau's jewellery is surprisingly affordable, and luckily for us, doesn't come with a royal price tag. Due to the scarcity of Welsh gold, only a small amount is included within each piece of Clogau jewellery. If you are looking for an alternative jewellery brand, Pandora has plenty of options, including its iconic charms like the Engravable Heart Tag Dangle Charm for £30. Alternatively, Swarovski is also a popular option that sells jewellery, gifts and watches. The brand also sells bag charms, such as Infinite bag charm for £69. Meanwhile, Clogau has launched a range of silver keyrings, all adorned with engravings that could evoking pride and passion in any Welsh person. Even better, the gifts are priced under £30. From superstar gigs to cosy pubs, find out What's On in Wales by signing up to our newsletter here. Insignia Heart Keyring - £29 This Clogau silver keyring comes with the brand's insignia heart, which comes in a rose gold colour, creating a sophisticated but modern look to the piece. Described as "the perfect little something", this keyring could enhance the look of your keys, zips of handbags and purses. If you want to make this gift extra special for someone, personalised engraving will cost an additional £15. While this item does not contain Welsh gold, it is made from non-precious metals, making it a durable, long lasting product that can last for many years to come. And as one happy reviewer said, this item could be the perfect gift to mark a milestone in someone's life. The shopper said: "Purchased for our niece following passing her driving test. Absolutely loves it!". WRU Welsh Heart Keyring - £29 The beating heart of many Welsh communities is their love for rugby. Clogau's WRU Welsh Heart Keyring has been created in partnership with the Welsh Rugby Union. One face of the red enamel heart carries the inscription 'Calon Cymru' ('the heart of Wales'), while the other face is embossed with the WRU Prince of Wales feathers logo. This would be an ideal gift for any rugby enthusiast - perhaps the perfect add-on to a purse or bag during a matchday at the Principality Stadium. Additionally, the WRU Welsh Heart Keyring comes with matching bracelet retailed at £139. The keyring comes in a complimentary gift box, which means you can present the gift to a special someone as soon as it arrives. The £29 gift has received over 30 reviews. One happy customer remarked: "Excellent value. Made a smashing little keepsake gift." Meanwhile, another pleased shopper reviewed: "As with all, they are are attractive and excellent gifts." But one reviewer was unhappy that the gift did not contain any Welsh gold. They reviewed: "It has no gold in it and no valuable metals so £30 is extremely high price". However, the jewellery brand's site states the keyring is made from non-precious metals and does not contain Welsh gold. Elsewhere, another happy shopper had this to say: "This is the perfect gift for my son who has moved away from Wales, he is extremely difficult to buy for, so when I saw this I knew it would be perfect". Wrexham AFC Heart Keyring - £29 Whether you are a football fan or not, it's been hard not to fall in love with Wrexham AFC's story. One of the oldest football clubs in the world faced years of hardship and was struggling. But thanks to a Hollywood takeover by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, the club has seen glittering success, financial stability and a global fanbase in recent years. If you know a Wrexham AFC fan, then this heart-shaped keyring is the one for them. With one red enamel side featuring the words 'Wrexham AFC' and the Welsh dragon, and the other polished side embossed with the football club's iconic crest, this is the perfect item to show off next time you're at the Racecourse. The keyring is crafted in partnership with Wrexham AFC and comes in a complimentary gift box. Additionally, the keyring comes with a matching pendant sold for £159. While the keyring has no reviews, the similarly-styled pendant has one, which reads: "A lovely bracelet reminding me of home".
Time of India
24-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Grip Invest launches auto compounding investment product for bond investors
Synopsis Grip Invest has introduced Infinite, a reinvestment product designed to streamline fixed-income investments. This auto-SIP feature reinvests monthly bond payouts into curated mutual funds, potentially boosting returns by up to 30%. Grip Invest addresses the challenges of manual tracking and idle returns, particularly benefiting retail investors with smaller payouts, and aims to enhance compounding and prevent value erosion.
Yahoo
23-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Flexbase adds perks on Visa card
This story was originally published on Payments Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Payments Dive newsletter. In the world of premium credit cards, banks and card issuers have poured on the amenities in an arms race of perks as they seek affluent big spenders. There's access to airport lounges, global concierge services, insurance protection on card purchases and an array of other attributes for the right — which is to say, wealthy — demographic. The wrinkle in this upscale card melange, however, is that there are plenty of rich people carrying the same high-end cards from American Express, JPMorgan Chase, Capital One Financial and other banks, many with the same kinds of perquisites. The cards and similarities of their perks are so ubiquitous as to become diluted for many affluent people. 'The challenge is that existing platforms are really designed for a mass-market consumer base,' Zaid Rahman, the chief executive of Flexbase Technologies, a personal finance and payments platform, said Thursday in an interview. He cited Amex's more than 40 million customers as one example of how cards confer travel and dining perks to the masses. Flexbase's business card is comparable to business cards from larger fintechs like Brex, Mercury and Ramp, that offer features such as high credit limits and expense controls. Flexbase is now adding travel, dining and other perks to its card to complement business functions. Rahman says that unlike the large enterprises those companies target, Flexbase's customers are generally solo entrepreneurs running small businesses and tend to merge their personal and professional spending. Given the proliferation of premium cards, this 'select group of individuals feel left out, and don't really have any sort of exclusivity in terms of the perks and benefits and access they're receiving,' he said. To address this privilege affliction, New York-based Flexbase has begun rolling out a new Visa-branded Infinite card with a variety of travel, dining and hotel amenities coupled with the business-specific attributes from its prior Mastercard-branded card. Flexbase focuses on affluent entrepreneurs that operate their own companies, usually with 10 to 100 employees. Rahman jokingly dubbed these businesspeople 'jumbo shrimp' because 'they're not big, but they're rich.' Moreover, they don't want to carry 'five different credit cards: 'This card is for this business. This card is that business. This card's just for me,'' Rahman said. 'You want to carry a single card and let the software figure out what to do with these transactions after the fact, because you own everything anyway, and from a tax perspective, you care about the tax optimization of these transactions.' Rahman said the company began talking about revising its credit card with these types of travel and dining rewards in response to customer demand. The new card was designed to give Flexbase customers 'what they actually want' on the personal side of their card spending, he said. Among other perks, that means a '24/7' Visa concierge to help secure reservations at tough-to-book restaurants, hotel upgrades and the 'automatic kind of perks when they're traveling or when they're going to an event,' Rahman said. The card uses OpenTable for priority reservation access at restaurants and Priority Pass, the UK-based airport lounge operator, for access at 1,300 airport lounges. Flexbase said it is the third company, and first fintech, to issue the Visa credit card, after Capital One Financial and UBS, the Swiss financial services firm. Visa has offered its Infinite card in Europe and Canada, but made it available in the U.S. only this year, a Flexbase spokesperson said. Visa did not reply to emails seeking comment. Flexbase launched in 2022 with its first card; the company said it reached $1 billion in annual transactions this year. Flexbase, which has 81 employees, said in March that it raised $25 million from six venture firms, following a $20 million capital raise in September 2023. Flexbase's average business owner issues 35 cards, many creating virtual cards they use to create and enforce expense policies, collect receipts and establish purchasing cards with specific merchants, Rahman said. On the business side, the card offers 60 days of interest-free financing on charges; cashback for early payments; and points redeemable for travel, gift cards, or statement credits, Flexbase said. 'The reality is, if you have three businesses that are cash flowing, and you're making a ton of money, your business accounts and your personal accounts, the boundary walls between them are very, very blurry,' Rahman said. One reason some entrepreneurs select Flexbase's platform is because it allocates different charges to different accounts, he said. 'Historically, the way financial institutions have thought about business and personal, they have thought about these things very differently,' Rahman said. 'So when you think about living a better lifestyle, they think of that as a personal thing, not a business thing.' 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News18
23-07-2025
- Business
- News18
Grip Invest launches auto compounding investment product for bond investors
Last Updated: New Delhi, Jul 23 (PTI) Grip Invest, a technology-driven trading platform for fixed-income schemes, on Wednesday announced the launch of a reinvestment product, which enables investors tap into fixed returns assets like bonds and securitised debt instruments (SDIs). The product, Infinite, is designed to solve the pain point of reinvestment in fixed returns instruments, as per a statement. Highlighting the challenges of bonds investors, Nikhil Aggarwal, Founder and Group CEO, Grip, said such investors had to resort to manual tracking of interest payouts and reinvestment options, where they had to make one decision after another, just to keep their capital working. Moreover, he noted that the reinvestment journey is fragmented and inefficient, especially for smaller returns earned by retail investors, which often sit idle. This friction not only disrupts compounding but also results in silent value erosion over time. 'Infinite is our response to that bottleneck: By routing monthly bond payouts into curated mutual funds via an auto-SIP… For investors, it delivers up to 30 per cent more returns from the same portfolio," he said here. Grip Invest, which is backed by investors like Venture Highway, Stride Ventures, ITI Capital and Multiply Ventures, has more than 35,000 customers with an average age of 30-45 years. Aggarwal has seen an increase in interest of retails investors towards the bond market over the past few years, although there remains huge room for further expansion. He attributed the rising interest to markets regulator Sebi's move of significantly reducing the ticket size or face value of debt securities from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 10,000 as well as recent rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of India, which made fixed deposit less appealing for investors. PTI SP TRB (This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed - PTI) view comments First Published: July 23, 2025, 15:45 IST Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Korea Herald
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Korea Herald
Infinite's Nam Woohyun to tour Asia
Nam Woohyun of Infinite is expanding his solo concert to five cities across Asia, his agency Billions announced Tuesday. He is set to host live shows in Seoul on Aug. 16-17 under the title 'Tree High School,' which will now be the name of an eight-show solo concert tour. He will head over to Macao on Sept. 14 and perform in Taipei, Taiwan, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in October and Manila and Hong Kong the following month. In the meantime, the singer will bring out his fifth solo EP 'Tree Ring' on July 30, approximately 10 months since his third solo digital single 'Boyfriend,' and close to two years after his first solo LP 'Whitree.'
