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The psychology of long-term remote working: Productivity vs. Inclusivity

The psychology of long-term remote working: Productivity vs. Inclusivity

By Stuart Duff, Head of Development at business psychologist, Pearn Kandola After an unpredictable few months, many office workers all..

COVID-19 Recovery tips for 2021

COVID-19 Recovery tips for 2021

By Thom Dennis, CEO at Serenity In Leadership There has been a huge cost to the pandemic but there has also been a lot of necessary le..

Working from home or the office – how to do it best

Working from home or the office – how to do it best

By Dr Lynda Shaw, neuroscientist, business psychologist and change specialist. For many of us Coronavirus has turned the way we work u..

Remote working tips to help IT last longer

Remote working tips to help IT last longer

By Bruce Penson, Managing Director of Pro Drive IT Here are 5 remote working tips to help your IT last longer, whether you’re at home ..

Are white-label branches the future for retail banking?

Are white-label branches the future for retail banking?

By Brian Holden, Global Director at SAS UK & Ireland Throughout the pandemic, stories of branch closures have been commonplace as ..

Combating the security risk of remote working 

Combating the security risk of remote working 

By Libby Bagley is Community Manager at License Dashboard, who specialise in software asset management and licensing expertise for lar..

How can financial firms tackle the challenges that lie ahead in 2021?

How can financial firms tackle the challenges that lie ahead in 2021?

By Paul McCreadie, Partner at ECI Partners, the leading growth-focused mid-market private equity firm 2020 was a hugely difficult year..

4 Trends that will have a major impact on private equity in 2021

4 Trends that will have a major impact on private equity in 2021

By Bryan Turner, Partner, SPEAR Capital Amidst the general chaos of 2020, investors were hit hard. With economies around the world al..

Addressing the human aspects of business transformation

Addressing the human aspects of business transformation

By Sundara Sukavanam, CDO, Firstsource While the financial services industry is no stranger to business transformation, the pandemic f..

Maximising AI during digital transformation in the financial services sector

Maximising AI during digital transformation in the financial services sector

By Monica Hovsepian, senior global industry strategist, financial services and Chirag Patel, lead solutions consultant & Magellan ..

The most common Self Assessment questions answered by experts

The most common Self Assessment questions answered by experts

Over 110,000 searches for ‘Self Assessment’ advice in the UK every month Accountants share everything you need to know ahead of the ..

Re-Mortgaging Your Home In The Middle Of A Pandemic: What You Need To Know

Re-Mortgaging Your Home In The Middle Of A Pandemic: What You Need To Know

By Pete Mugleston, Mortgage expert and MD at www.onlinemortgageadvisor.co.uk With the housing market still very much open for business..

How to make a rebrand a successful pivot

How to make a rebrand a successful pivot

By Gary Knight, WOLF CEO, explains what to consider and the questions to ask The thing with rebranding is, it has to be done very well..

How Buying Your Business Premises Can Help You Hit Your Long Term Financial Goals

How Buying Your Business Premises Can Help You Hit Your Long Term Financial Goals

By Gary Hemming, Commercial Lending Director As your business grows, the decision to take on larger premises can seem like a big step...

LEI: Not a garland from Hawaii but a foundational risk management component  

LEI: Not a garland from Hawaii but a foundational risk management component  

By Peter Newton, Managing Director and Eric Mueller, Strategic Netting Lead, D2 Legal Technology What is a Legal Entity Identifier (LE..

Putting data at the heart of a customer-centric approach

Putting data at the heart of a customer-centric approach

By James Johnston, Regional VP at Cloudera Competition in the financial sector is fierce when it comes to delivering on customer servi..

Stocks with greater socially responsible investor demand saw weaker losses during the COVID-19 crash

Stocks with greater socially responsible investor demand saw weaker losses during the COVID-19 crash

Stocks that were favoured by socially conscious investors saw weaker losses during the COVID-19 pandemic market crash, according to re..

Poultry Diagnostics Market Players Look to Capitalize on Low Costs and High Accuracy of ELISA: FMI Study

Poultry Diagnostics Market Players Look to Capitalize on Low Costs and High Accuracy of ELISA: FMI Study

Market leaders are majorly focusing on the product research with an end goal of launching and developing enhanced testing tools for ac..

Digital Payments: An Explosion of Emerging Opportunities

Digital Payments: An Explosion of Emerging Opportunities

By Deborah Baxley, Financial Services Enterprise Industry Consultant at Teradata Digital payments players have massive amounts of data..

Is compliance to PSD2’s SCA a bridge too far for B2B merchants?

Is compliance to PSD2’s SCA a bridge too far for B2B merchants?

By Pat Bermingham, CEO, Adflex According to the European Central Bank, 79% of all card fraud in 2018 occurred online from Card Not Pre..

The tech transition in Aviation

The tech transition in Aviation

By Captain Nadhem, the General Manager of Alpha Aviation UAE The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered one of the most disruptive periods on..

Tomorrow’s Finance: The Latest Innovations in Open Banking

Tomorrow’s Finance: The Latest Innovations in Open Banking

  By Leon Muis, Chief Business Officer at YTS For the banking sector, standing still is the same as falling behind. Innovation ha..

Mark Wright – Apprentice Winner NOT TOWIE

Mark Wright – Apprentice Winner NOT TOWIE

With the beauty of hindsight, would you have still auditioned for BBC’s The Apprentice to launch Climb Online? When growing up, I alwa..

Finance teams have been left in the dark on the real cost of working from home

Finance teams have been left in the dark on the real cost of working from home

By Carlo Gualandri, Founder and CEO of Soldo 2020 has been one of the toughest years for finance teams on record. Although the end is ..

Know Your Customer – let’s make this easy

Know Your Customer – let’s make this easy

By James Adie, VP of Sales, EMEA, Ephesoft If you work in the financial services sector, you’ll know that a customer’s decision to ch..

5 tips for financial fitness in 2021

5 tips for financial fitness in 2021

By Jeannie Boyle, Director & Chartered Financial Planner EQ Investors As a turbulent 2020 ends, the New Year is an opportune time ..

Finance firms must ensure they fix data fundamentals

Finance firms must ensure they fix data fundamentals

By Wayne Parslow, Executive Vice President for EMEA, Validity Faced with more legislation than most other industries, finance companie..

How much do I need to save for retirement?

How much do I need to save for retirement?

By Fabian Taylor, senior associate and chartered financial planner in Nelsons’ wealth management team, works out how much money ..

Voice Quality Matters: Quarter of Employees Working From Home Still Experiencing Regular Connectivity Issues

Voice Quality Matters: Quarter of Employees Working From Home Still Experiencing Regular Connectivity Issues

-Survey of 1007 SMEs in the UK by Spitfire Network Services Ltd reveals pain points for employees working from home- -27% experience f..

Companies that don’t upgrade their financial processes this year will get left behind

Companies that don’t upgrade their financial processes this year will get left behind

By Anthony Venus, CEO of Yaypay Accounts receivables (AR) is often a misunderstood department. Not only is AR all about financial oper..

World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and Sommet Education launch Hospitality Challenge Pitch

World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and Sommet Education launch Hospitality Challenge Pitch

World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and Sommet Education launch Hospitality Challenge Pitch – a series of online discussions focusing o..

Crafting a Business Continuity Cybersecurity Plan

Crafting a Business Continuity Cybersecurity Plan

Ensure you continue serving customers through chaos with a business continuity cybersecurity plan By KC Sreeram, Vice President, Cloud..

2021 Predictions: Operational Resilience Takes Center Stage

2021 Predictions: Operational Resilience Takes Center Stage

Breaking down barriers between Risk and Business Continuity By Brian Molk, Fusion Risk Management What a year! Simply put, the global ..

Four steps to mastering financial agility 

Four steps to mastering financial agility 

By Tim Wakeford, Vice President Product Strategy, EMEA Financials at Workday Agility is fast-becoming priority number one for finance ..

Navigating the Impact of Post-COVID Realities for MiFID II

Navigating the Impact of Post-COVID Realities for MiFID II

By Martin Taylor, Deputy CEO and co-founder at Content Guru When the Revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and new Market..

Accounts Payable departments lag behind in AI automation

Accounts Payable departments lag behind in AI automation

according to new survey from Ephesoft Two-thirds of accounting departments still process invoices manually: only 15% are fully paperle..

2021 Predictions: Realising the Value of Payments Transformation

2021 Predictions: Realising the Value of Payments Transformation

By Simon Wilson, Co-Head, Payments at Icon Solutions It has been said that prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the ..