It’s nearly the end of 2025, John, and what a year it’s been. Thanks to your support, Positive Money has achieved so much in the last twelve months.

So, as most people start to wind down, we wanted to share our top five highlights from 2025 for you to delve into over Betwixmas*, or read our year end round-up blog for a full deep dive. So grab a hot chocolate (or something stronger) and settle down… 

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1. #TaxTheBanks

2025 took our #TaxTheBanks campaign to new heights thanks to the nearly 70,000 of you who signed the petition, and the thousands more who contacted MPs with emails and postcards. If you haven’t watched them already, check out our action videos from outside the Bank of England and Parliament - or our sassy take-down of the Barclays CEO!

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2. An international policy win at the T20

We had an incredible win this year, as our recommendation for a more multilateral international financial architecture was included in the Final Communiqué from the T20 Conference (a group of think tanks, research institutes and experts from G20 countries). These recommendations are passed directly to G20 Heads of State! Read the blog from Bruno, our Senior EU Researcher to hear how it happened.

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3. Our first Green Central Banking Scorecard in Asia

We’ve produced a Scorecard ranking the green central banking policies across G20 countries for several years now, but in September we launched our first Scorecard report solely focused on East and Southeast Asia. It’s received lots of media attention in the region, particularly in South Korea, and was even used by a Korean MP to grill the Central Bank Governor! Catch up on the launch event to hear from leading experts on green finance in Asia.

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4. Hitting the headlines!

2025 was a year filled with media hits - 179 of them to be exact! You could hear us talking about cash on TalkTV,  deregulation on Sky News, or on the radio about fiscal rules on BBC Radio London, and property taxes on LBC. That’s not to forget print and online, where we grabbed a full page spread in the Mirror for our #TaxTheBanks campaign, headlines for our policy work including greening the Bank of England, or on tariffs in OpenDemocracy, and a whole hit-piece in the Financial Times calling us “card carrying socialists” (see our right of reply here). What a year! 

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5. Taking on the crypto industry in Parliament

We rounded off the year by heading to Parliament to share evidence on cryptocurrencies, calling out crypto for the con that it is. We’ll never stop defending cash, and calling for its digital counterpart to be publicly issued, privacy-protecting and risk-free - unlike crypto. Check out this blog for our three key points from the session, or watch the video to see our Head of Policy, Simon, in action.

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And for even more info on our work from 2025, read our year end round-up blog.

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Thanks so much for your support and for making all this possible - we honestly couldn’t have done it without you. 

And best wishes for a Merry Christmas from…

Kate, Hannah, Sara, Paul, Farisai, Ellie, Simon, Chloe, Tracey, Alec, Danisha and Joe - the whole Positive Money UK team!

P.S. We did not purposely stand in height order! 🤭

* Urban Dictionary Betwixmas definition: the week in-between Christmas and New Years Day

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