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Clearing Out Your Garage – Benefiting from Corporate Simplification

Clearing Out Your Garage – Benefiting from Corporate Simplification

By Eddie Bines, managing director, Restructuring Advisory, Kroll “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more com..

Metro Bank posts flat third-quarter loan growth

Metro Bank posts flat third-quarter loan growth

(Reuters) – Metro Bank said on Wednesday third-quarter net loans were at similar levels to the previous quarter, as a reduction ..

A UK COVID lockdown would be wrong right now, business minister says

A UK COVID lockdown would be wrong right now, business minister says

LONDON (Reuters) – Another COVID lockdown would be completely wrong right now as Britain is learning to live with the novel coro..

What Banks Need to Prepare for EBA Pillar3 Disclosure of ESG Risks

What Banks Need to Prepare for EBA Pillar3 Disclosure of ESG Risks

Overview of EBA Consultation Paper  The European Banking Authority (EBA) published a consultation paper on draft implementing techni..

What is EFTPS and How is it Beneficial to Your Business

What is EFTPS and How is it Beneficial to Your Business

In an effort to make it easier for taxpayers to make payments on personal income taxes, the US Department of the Treasury came up with..

UK competition watchdog has music streaming in its sights

UK competition watchdog has music streaming in its sights

By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s competition regulator plans to launch an investigation into music streaming to see wh..

Lightsource BP to enter Polish renewables market

Lightsource BP to enter Polish renewables market

LONDON (Reuters) – Lightsource BP said on Tuesday it was entering the Polish market with a deal to develop solar energy projects..

Six Reasons Why Digital World ClassTM Finance Organizations Outperform Peers

Six Reasons Why Digital World ClassTM Finance Organizations Outperform Peers

By Nilly Essaides, Angela Caswell-LaPierre and Erik Dorr, The Hackett Group The best-performing finance organizations – the Digital Wo..

How is green finance reshaping the banking industry?

How is green finance reshaping the banking industry?

By Elina Mattila, Executive Director Mobey Forum Having already swept through numerous industries around the world, the sustainability..

How to create a PR plan and link it to your business marketing strategy

How to create a PR plan and link it to your business marketing strategy

A PR plan is a vital part of your marketing armoury. It allows you to control how your company presents itself in the public eye and e..

Why contactless has changed the face of payments in the UK

Why contactless has changed the face of payments in the UK

By Ralf Gladis, CEO, Computop Contactless payments have been experiencing a steep rise over the period of the pandemic in the UK. Acco..

Power squeeze curbs Chinese growth, leaves Europe in a gas bind

Power squeeze curbs Chinese growth, leaves Europe in a gas bind

By Muyu Xu, Oksana Kobzeva and Jason Hovet BEIJING/MOSCOW/PRAGUE (Reuters) – China’s power shortages hit growth in the wor..

The Future for Banks and Digital ID

The Future for Banks and Digital ID

Identity thieves typically target one’s digital identity when they want to steal your identity. But what is digital identity? Why do t..

Former U.S. President Clinton leaves hospital, heads to New York

Former U.S. President Clinton leaves hospital, heads to New York

ORANGE, Ca. (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Bill Clinton walked out of a Southern California hospital on Sunday after being admitted ..

Ford to invest around $300 million to build electric car parts at UK plant

Ford to invest around $300 million to build electric car parts at UK plant

LONDON (Reuters) – Ford said on Monday it would invest up to 230 million pounds ($316 million) to build electric car components ..

Oil prices climb as COVID recovery, power generators stoke demand

Oil prices climb as COVID recovery, power generators stoke demand

By Jessica Jaganathan SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Oil prices hit their highest level in years on Monday as demand recovers from the COVID-19 ..

Taiwan’s Foxconn shows off three electric vehicle prototypes

Taiwan’s Foxconn shows off three electric vehicle prototypes

By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan tech giant Foxconn unveiled its first three electric vehicle prototypes on Monday, unders..

For Britain’s chicken farmers, Brexit and COVID brew a perfect storm

For Britain’s chicken farmers, Brexit and COVID brew a perfect storm

By Kate Holton and James Davey DRIFFIELD, England (Reuters) – When Nigel Upson checks the plucked chicken carcasses dangling fro..

Hungry for fuel, China looks to the U.S., Europe eyes relief plans

Hungry for fuel, China looks to the U.S., Europe eyes relief plans

By Chen Aizhu, Jessica Jaganathan and Scott DiSavino (Reuters) – China’s energy crisis deepened on Friday with coal prices..

The Easy Guide to Debt Consolidation

The Easy Guide to Debt Consolidation

Are you drowning in debt but don’t have a clue on how to start paying it off? Debt consolidation is a tried and tested strategy ..

Entrepreneur & Investor Dale W Wood Shares How He Is Using His Funds to Create Change

Entrepreneur & Investor Dale W Wood Shares How He Is Using His Funds to Create Change

Great things come from humble beginnings. This could be a personal mantra for Dale W Wood who has enjoyed an inspiring career that has..

Adele makes music comeback with new single ‘Easy On Me’

Adele makes music comeback with new single ‘Easy On Me’

By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) -British singer-songwriter Adele made her highly anticipated music comeback on Friday, rele..

Pearson pounded after COVID hits U.S. community college enrolment

Pearson pounded after COVID hits U.S. community college enrolment

By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) -Global education group Pearson said enrolments at community colleges in the United States had been hi..

Italian fashion group OTB joins LVMH-led blockchain platform

Italian fashion group OTB joins LVMH-led blockchain platform

MILAN (Reuters) – Italian fashion group OTB has joined a consortium formed by luxury goods heavyweights LVMH, Prada and Richemon..

The logo of French cloud computing company OVHcloud is seen on a data-center building in Strasbourg, France, October 13, 2021. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann

The logo of French cloud computing company OVHcloud is seen on a data-center building in Strasbourg, France, October 13, 2021. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann

LONDON (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell has appointed Wael Sawan as head of its integrated gas and renewables division, replacing M..

Shares in French tech champion OVHcloud gain 6% in Paris debut

Shares in French tech champion OVHcloud gain 6% in Paris debut

PARIS (Reuters) -Shares in French cloud computing company OVHcloud climbed around 6% on their first day of trading on Friday, after a ..

How finance firms can unify two data approaches to improve both compliance and security

How finance firms can unify two data approaches to improve both compliance and security

By David Walker, Field CTO, EMEA, Yugabyte, the leader in open-source distributed SQL databases. Finance and banking orga..

2021 and the fintech market bonanza

2021 and the fintech market bonanza

By Mike Rhodes, CEO and Founder of ConsultMyApp The Covid-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented disruption for many busine..

Automating business processes is essential to digital transformation

Automating business processes is essential to digital transformation

By Colin Dean, Director, Western Europe at M-Files Information management, business processes and business systems need to come togeth..

Why Open Banking Heralds a New Era of eCommerce Merchant and Bank Collaboration

Why Open Banking Heralds a New Era of eCommerce Merchant and Bank Collaboration

By Ron de Bos, Dir. of Product Management, Payments, Digital River What do banks fear most? You might think it would be another Black ..

Companies’ climate disclosures still lacking -task force

Companies’ climate disclosures still lacking -task force

By Huw Jones and Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) -Around half of companies assessed have begun to apply globally-agreed climate-related ..

IKEA warns supply chain disruptions likely to last into 2022

IKEA warns supply chain disruptions likely to last into 2022

By Anna Ringstrom STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -IKEA, the world’s biggest furniture brand, is leasing more ships, buying containers and r..

What You Should Know Before Getting a Loan Online

What You Should Know Before Getting a Loan Online

Having a loan is good, but having the right loan at the right interest rate isn’t necessarily. This is because you can end up pa..

Britain’s binge on cheap food is over, biggest chicken producer says

Britain’s binge on cheap food is over, biggest chicken producer says

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s 20-year binge on cheap food is coming to an end as food price inflation could hit double digi..

From beef bowls to coffee, cost surge squeezes Japan’s salaryman staples

From beef bowls to coffee, cost surge squeezes Japan’s salaryman staples

By Daniel Leussink and Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – In 50 years running a cafe in Tokyo, Shizuo Mori can’t remember a ti..

Digital ad demand helps Publicis hike 2021 growth outlook

Digital ad demand helps Publicis hike 2021 growth outlook

By Milla Nissi (Reuters) – French advertising group Publicis raised its outlook for 2021 on Thursday as a global shift towards d..

Enabling decision-making success in the banking industry – 3 considerations

Enabling decision-making success in the banking industry – 3 considerations

By Neil Shah, Head of Financial Services, Board The move towards strategic decision-making Now, with the pandemic restrictions lifting..