Cyber firm called up to protect top-tier UK financial services

The very exclusive club handpicked to help keep the UK’s top financial institutions safe from cyber criminals grew by one this week, revealing a fast-growing firm based right here in Gloucestershire.

Dear readers,

Welcome to Friday’s edition. As we edge back to some kind of normal service I would like to welcome the numerous individuals who spent August signing up as subscribers to The Raikes Journal.

We’re now chasing down 1,000 subscribers. That might seem small, but Raikes is growing entirely organically and has an incredible rate of readership. More so than any other database I’ve touched to date. And is supported by more than 12,000 social media connections.

When you consider Monday’s edition was read by more people than we sent it too - which is often the case - and that we’re now touching 12,000 views a month for our email edition - that’s not too shabby.

You could say that with six to 10 stories per edition on a Monday and Friday, if you went by views per story (what everyone else does) you can multiple 12,000 by at least six-fold. But we don’t. Although we do think that in 18 months that’s pretty good - and about halfway towards optimal critical mass.

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