Embracing change and redefining audit
Following a string of high profile business failures – and the economic implications of COVID-19 – the role and quality of audit..
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Money laundering made easy by UK financial system
By Caroline Hermon, Head of Adoption of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning at SAS UK & Ireland Public trust in the ban..
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Here’s what the future holds for financial planning & analysis teams
By Thomas Sutter, Finance Centre of Excellence, Oracle NetSuite Effective financial planning and analysis (FP&A) capabilities are ..
FINANCE
What Do You Need to Consider for 2021 if You’re Self-Employed?
By Richard Hepburn from Gorilla Accounting, expert contractor accountants who specialise in using a technology-led approach to account..
FINANCE
Breaking down the compliance limitations of SMS One-Time Passwords
By Frederik Mennes, Director Product Security at OneSpan Banks and payment service providers have several methods of authenticating so..
TECHNOLOGY
How to maintain customer loyalty and trust in the face of a pandemic and digital competition
By Andrew Warren, Head of Banking & Financial Services, UK&I at Cognizant There has long been a paradox at the heart of the fi..
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Interview with Shruti Rai
Chief Growth Officer and a Co-Founder at Novus, the new sustainable banking app making it easy to generate positive impact from everyd..
BUSINESS
Why investing in wellbeing can boost your bottom line
By Clare E. Kenny, Employee Wellbeing Specialist Working through a global pandemic has bumped employee wellbeing up the business agend..
BUSINESS
What is a legal entity identifier and who needs one?
If you have any dealings with the IRS or any other agency of the U.S. government you will no doubt have heard the term, ‘creativ..
BUSINESS
Lies, damned lies and SEO statistics – what should SEO be reporting to the board?
By Joe Friedlein, is founder and MD of Browser Media, an SEO and digital marketing agency. History teaches us that it’s possible to fi..
BUSINESS
How to Trade Forex and Succeed as an Individual
Every day, many new traders step into the forex market to make money. However, to make money trading forex markets, traders need to kn..
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Why empathy needs to sit at the heart of BBLS and CBILS customer service
By Siddharth Parashar, Chief Revenue Officer, CRM, Firstsource Many businesses are staying afloat during the pandemic by relyin..
BUSINESS
HMRC’s newfound status as preferential creditor on corporate failures represents another potential drain on the resources of the PPF
By Kris Weber, Legal Director Arc Pensions Law It is a long-established pillar of UK insolvency law that in every corporate failure, s..
FINANCE
How to understand your marketing data and use it to drive business growth
By Stewart Boutcher, founding CTO at Beaconsoft Ltd For any business that engages in digital marketing, data is an essential part to u..
BUSINESS
How causal AI could have predicted the outcome of the GameStop incident
By Darko Matovski, CEO and Co-Founder of causaLens The recent GameStop/Robinhood incident highlights that trading signals are moving ..
BUSINESS
Business Finance: What Is It and Why Is It Important?
What is the role of finance in business? What is the most common way that entrepreneurs finance the start-up of a new business? These ..
FINANCE
Redefining resilience: How COVID-19 is forging a work-from-home future in the Finance Sector
By Mike Hampson, CEO, Bishopsgate Financial Mike Hampson explores how the pandemic has reshaped the financial workforce structure, by ..
FINANCE
Digital Marketing Trends that will change how brands operate in 2021
By Michael Bush, Commercial Director, Climb Online Over the last 12 months, video conferencing tool Zoom experienced exponential growt..
BUSINESS
Choosing to Challenge – Thoughts on International Women’s Day 2021
By Marieke Saeij, CEO, Visma | Onguard The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day on 8th March is Choose to Challenge, and it’..
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Is Regtech’s rise one way tackle the international regulatory game of Risk?
By Philip Miller, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Solidatus Is your organisation drowning in compliance issues? If it is, it would be easy to u..
TECHNOLOGY
Adopting AI: balancing automation with risk management
By Richard Menear, CEO, Burning Tree Artificial intelligence (AI) has already found its way into many mainstream business applications..
TECHNOLOGY
Securing digital transformation in the financial services sector
By Brian McCann, President of Security Solutions, Neustar The operational challenges facing IT and security teams in the financial se..
TECHNOLOGY
A new vision for grant management requires familiar IT
By Jack Perschke, Partner at Netcompany With the UK’s exit from the EU, the Government has a golden opportunity to re-think how grant ..
BUSINESS
Tapping into the right minds
By David Holden-White, co-founder and managing director, techspert.io The world is awash with information. Analyst house IDC estimated..
TECHNOLOGY
Open banking: The real step change for the global payments industry
By Mike Peplow, CEO at Paynetics UK The pandemic has revolutionised the way we pay. The shift to contactless payments and cash alterna..
BANKING
How payroll will shape up for the year ahead
By Simon Parsons, Director of UK Compliance Strategies, SD Worx UK As we start to move through the early months of 2021, we’re already..
BUSINESS
Keeping your team connected and beating work from home fatigue in lockdown
By Sam Hill, Head of People and Culture at BizSpace By March, most of the UK will have worked from home for a full year. For many this..
BUSINESS
How firms can continue to hire contractors with confidence when new tax rules get underway in April 2021
By Dave Chaplin, CEO of IR35 compliance solution IR35 Shield and author of IR35 & Off-Payroll Explained The Off-Payroll legislatio..
FINANCE
Why payments have become the next battleground for banks
By Ian Johnson, SVP, Managing Director Europe, at Marqeta The COVID-19 pandemic kick-started a huge shift in consumer behaviour, forev..
FINANCE
SMEs are more resilient than we give them credit for
By Simon Cureton, CEO of Business Finance Marketplace, Funding Options It’s an unfortunate truth: bad news sells. So, it’s no surprise..
FINANCE
Recent survey of CFOs reveals what finance teams should be prioritising in 2021
By Andrew Foster, VP Consulting EMEA, AppZen Despite a tumultuous 2020, a recent survey of CFOs conducted by AppZen showed that the ma..
FINANCE
Business is changing – is your culture changing with it?
By James Turner, Chief People Officer at Somo American author and leadership expert Warren Bennis is often quoted as saying “in life, ..
BUSINESS
These top 5 interactive skills will ensure we’ll become better communicators in 2021
Last year was one like no other and is certainly one that the majority of us will be keen to say goodbye too. That said, it’s been an ..
BUSINESS
The Lego blocks of SaaS: how microservices can help ensure compliance with changing financial regulations
By Oscar Caicedo, VP of Strategy and Operations, VAT, Sovos Microservices are a popular form of modular architecture used by software ..
BUSINESS
The changing CFO: an organization’s voice of conscience
By Marc Linden, EVP, Medium Business Segment at Sage The global economy has put the spotlight firmly on the CFO. They will be the main..
FINANCE
New Trends in Online Training Programs
Online Training Courses or Off Line Training Courses are the ones that provide interaction or online communication with the learners a..
BUSINESS
Trends in open banking in 2021
By Seshika Fernando, General Manager, Open Banking, WSO2 2021 will be characterised by volatility and uncertainty as financial instit..
BANKING