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Building Economic Resilience in Tough Times

Building Economic Resilience in Tough Times

By Mitul Ruparelia, Founder & Principal, Citius Partners We are going through a major economic crisis, which has been ..

Why is Accounting Coming Up Short When It Comes To New Hires?

Why is Accounting Coming Up Short When It Comes To New Hires?

Laurent Charpentier, CEO at Yooz Global skills shortages and a post-pandemic power shift in employee vs employer demands h..

Stellantis CEO calls for talks to soften EU’s 2035 fossil-fuel car ban

Stellantis CEO calls for talks to soften EU’s 2035 fossil-fuel car ban

By Gilles Guillaume PARIS (Reuters) – The European Union’s proposed 2035 ban on fossil-fuel cars should be renegotiated to..

Britain’s political and market turmoil

Britain’s political and market turmoil

LONDON (Reuters) – New finance minister Jeremy Hunt scrapped Prime Minister Liz Truss’s Sept. 23 mini-budget and scaled ba..

UK consumer industries warn curbing energy support will hit demand

UK consumer industries warn curbing energy support will hit demand

LONDON (Reuters) – The mood among Britain’s beleaguered retail and hospitality industries darkened on Monday on fears new ..

Britain’s financial system under stress amid market turmoil -analysts

Britain’s financial system under stress amid market turmoil -analysts

By Iain Withers and Lawrence White LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s banks and financial firms face deepening stress from rising fundi..

Market turmoil a boon for trend-following hedge funds

Market turmoil a boon for trend-following hedge funds

By Nell Mackenzie (Reuters) – Trend-following hedge funds are capitalising on market disruption and geopolitical unrest, with fu..

Build A Strong Remote Team With These 5 Steps

Build A Strong Remote Team With These 5 Steps

Whether you offer full-time or part-time work-from-home options, you can help your employees make their home-based office more success..

Bank of England publishes rules for energy firms’ liquidity tool

Bank of England publishes rules for energy firms’ liquidity tool

LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England published on Monday the rules for energy firms seeking to use a new liquidity tool design..

UK finance minister Hunt to make statement at 1000 GMT – source

UK finance minister Hunt to make statement at 1000 GMT – source

LONDON (Reuters) – British finance minister Jeremy Hunt will make a statement at 1000 GMT, a source in Prime Minister Liz Truss&..

ITV shares jump on reports it could sell stake in production arm

ITV shares jump on reports it could sell stake in production arm

LONDON (Reuters) – Shares in ITV jumped 7% in early deals on Monday, lifted by a Financial Times report that it is considering s..

UK’s Hargreaves Lansdown CEO Hill to step down

UK’s Hargreaves Lansdown CEO Hill to step down

By Sinchita Mitra (Reuters) -Hargreaves Lansdown said on Monday its Chief Executive Officer Chris Hill would step down after more than..

How Britain’s pension scheme hedge became a trillion pound gamble

How Britain’s pension scheme hedge became a trillion pound gamble

By Tommy Wilkes and Carolyn Cohn LONDON (Reuters) -It started out simply enough: British pension schemes were looking for a way to mat..

Credit Agricole and CACEIS to buy RBC Investor Services’ Europe unit

Credit Agricole and CACEIS to buy RBC Investor Services’ Europe unit

PARIS (Reuters) – CACEIS, the asset servicing business owned by French bank Credit Agricole and Spanish bank Santander, has stru..

Back to basics for cost control as the usual levers lose value

Back to basics for cost control as the usual levers lose value

      By Mark Blakemore, Chief Financial Officer at Compleat Software, the purchase-to-pay software house. Barely a wee..

Curating A Fully Contactless Customer Experience for Payments 

Curating A Fully Contactless Customer Experience for Payments 

    By Jonathan Andresen, Senior Director, Incode Technologies  The ways in which we pay for our goods and serv..

Identifying areas of vulnerability: Why cybersecurity shouldn’t be an afterthought for financial organisations

Identifying areas of vulnerability: Why cybersecurity shouldn’t be an afterthought for financial organisations

  By Anna Webb, Head of Security Operations at Kocho The Bank of England’s Cyber Framework has been designed to help..

Personification, the new frontier of online advertising

Personification, the new frontier of online advertising

    By Geoffroy Martin, COO, Ogury   It is undeniable: personalised advertising based on third-party cooki..

Going Cashless — The Developing Digital Economy

Going Cashless — The Developing Digital Economy

  By Anil Malhotra, CMO & Co-Founder, Bango   Moving toward a cashless society will lead to a wealth of pos..

Why now is the time for banks to use their data to support customers

Why now is the time for banks to use their data to support customers

    By Jason Foster, CEO and Founder, Cynozure Energy bills are eye-watering. The value of real wage has all bu..

The Future of B2B Payments: Buy Now, Pay Later

The Future of B2B Payments: Buy Now, Pay Later

The Future of B2B Payments: Buy Now, Pay Later   By Louis Carbonnier, the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Hokodo Buy Now, P..

Analysis-G7 fails to reach intervention deal to ease pain of soaring dollar

Analysis-G7 fails to reach intervention deal to ease pain of soaring dollar

By Leika Kihara WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Japan and other countries facing the fallout from a soaring U.S. dollar found little comf..

Euro zone bond yields fall as ECB policymaker flags recession risk, gilts eyed

Euro zone bond yields fall as ECB policymaker flags recession risk, gilts eyed

By Stefano Rebaudo (Reuters) -Euro zone bond yields fell on Friday after a European Central Bank (ECB) policymaker flagged recession r..

Royal Mail warns of thousands of job cuts as it slides into red

Royal Mail warns of thousands of job cuts as it slides into red

By Yadarisa Shabong (Reuters) -Royal Mail could cut up to 10,000 jobs and the loss-making business warned of more layoffs if planned s..

Analysis-ECB ‘QT’ may be next challenge for tumultuous markets

Analysis-ECB ‘QT’ may be next challenge for tumultuous markets

By Yoruk Bahceli and Dhara Ranasinghe LONDON (Reuters) – The European Central Bank is considering entering the maelstrom of vola..

4 ways high-performance analytics powers financial services

4 ways high-performance analytics powers financial services

By Helena Schwenk, VP Chief Data & Analytics Office, Exasol The pandemic only made data-based operations more importan..

Euro zone posts record trade deficit in August amid soaring energy prices

Euro zone posts record trade deficit in August amid soaring energy prices

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The euro zone posted in August its largest trade deficit since it expanded to 19 countries in 2015, as high..

Scams Avoided: How to Prevent Bank Account Scams in 2023

Scams Avoided: How to Prevent Bank Account Scams in 2023

  By Gemma Staite, Threat Analytics Lead at BioCatch    The financial services industry is experiencing unprece..

Four reasons why SMEs in developing nations should embrace a cashless society

Four reasons why SMEs in developing nations should embrace a cashless society

  By Alex Vavilov, Chief Commercial Officer for Stenn International    While no nation has forgone cash yet, it is b..

The commercial imperative behind employee happiness

The commercial imperative behind employee happiness

  By Danni Rush, Chief Operating Officer at Virgin Experience Days and Virgin Incentives and Virgin Experience Gifts..

Business finance: the fintech evolution

Business finance: the fintech evolution

  By Chirag Shah, CEO and Founder of Nucleus Commercial Finance With recession on the horizon, many SMEs are struggl..

Contactless Payments: Spirit Willing but is the Market?

Contactless Payments: Spirit Willing but is the Market?

  By Matt Hudson, the co-founder and CEO of BILDIT In the “before times” (pre pandemic), we as a society were alread..

Digital sales transformation is key to faster, higher revenue

Digital sales transformation is key to faster, higher revenue

  By Nick Bowles, Vice President of Sales & Strategy EMEA at Outreach  Technology is constantly transforming mod..

The Future of Finance: How to defend against the top threats to cloud security

The Future of Finance: How to defend against the top threats to cloud security

  By Milad Aslaner, Head of Technology Advisory Group, SentinelOne Despite their ethereal appearance, when it comes ..

Spain September final 12-month inflation revised down to 8.9%

Spain September final 12-month inflation revised down to 8.9%

MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish consumer prices rose 8.9% year-on-year in September, down from 10.5% in the period through August and..

TomTom shares fall as 2023 uncertainties outweigh Q3 beat

TomTom shares fall as 2023 uncertainties outweigh Q3 beat

By Federica Mileo and Augustin Turpin (Reuters) – Dutch navigation and digital mapping company TomTom on Friday cut its cash flo..

German car industry baulks at supplier demands over energy hikes

German car industry baulks at supplier demands over energy hikes

By Victoria Waldersee WOLFSBURG, Germany (Reuters) – Germany’s giant carmakers may have secured their own energy supplies ..