FinTechs and Funding: Who Needs Who?
By Marcel Van Oost Investment is the lifeblood of FinTechs of all stages, from start-up to scale-ups – but what role will the An..
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Selling advice: Five expert tips on how to avoid gazundering when selling your home to save you money
By Nima Ghasri, Director at regulated property buyers, Good Move offers five helpful tips on how to minimise the risk of gazundering w..
BUSINESS
The trend is your friend – fuelling future growth with time-aware CRM data
By James Frampton, SVP and GM, EMEA, at SugarCRM If you’ve ever worked or have an interest in trading and the stock market, then you’r..
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Uncertain Times for UK Landlords: How to Avoid Insolvency for Your Property Management Business in 2020
The last few years or so have seen certainty and stability for UK businesses go straight out the window in a spectacular way. The unce..
BUSINESS
Complaints: From Cost-centre to Marketing Discipline
By Martin Ellingham, director, product management compliance at Aptean, looks at how complaint management can drive profitability 2019..
BUSINESS
What will MTD for Corporation Tax look like?
By Russell Gammon, Chief Innovation Officer, Tax Systems MTD for VAT is now in “full swing”. Over 1.4 million businesses have signed u..
FINANCE
How to Streamline Claims Conversations in the Insurance Sector and Transform Your CX
By Simon Black, CEO, Awaken Intelligence Did you know that the UK insurance industry is the largest in Europe and the fourth largest i..
INSURANCE
AI: getting it right for financial services
By Alix Melchy, Jumio VP of AI Currently, 85% of global financial institutions are using some form of AI in their processes, with 64% ..
TECHNOLOGY
Latent Cybersecurity implications of COVID-19
By Deeph Chana, Co-Director of the Centre for Financial Technology, at Imperial College Business School, and heads the Digital Banking..
TECHNOLOGY
Why a modern organisation needs an agile approach to software asset management
By Libby Bagley, Community Manager at License Dashboard, who specialise in Software Asset Management and licensing expertise for large..
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Has the pandemic triggered society to re-think later life planning?
By Barry Floyd, who is the Managing Director of Golden Leaves Funeral Planning The world has been talking about the Covid-19 pandemic..
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Are chargebacks heading for extinction?
By Gabe McGloin, Head of International Merchant Sales & Business Development, Verifi Chargebacks have existed since ..
FINANCE
Why now is the time to implement a time saving business model, encouraging team members to discuss their challenges
By Chris Caffrey, founder of The Legacy Club, a virtual private members club for entrepreneurs, directors, and owners of disruptive bu..
BUSINESS
5 ways the FS industry can support the recovery
By David McCann, Planning Director, Teamspirit While it may not feel like it, we are already in some strange recovery from the pandemi..
FINANCE
UK PM Sunak to announce more ‘proportionate’ climate response
By Kris Sharma, Financial Services Lead, Canonical – the publisher of Ubuntu Artificial intelligence (AI) has assumed a growing ..
TECHNOLOGY
Small business strategies for foreign exchange
By Gavan Smythe, Managing Director, iCompareFX The foreign exchange market is one of the largest in the world. Transactions take place..
BUSINESS
Five common IT headaches caused by long-term working from home
By Scott Dodds, CEO, Ultima. With working practices looking set to include working away from crowded offices for the foreseeable futur..
BUSINESS
The importance of thought leadership content in the financial services sector
The collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 marked a turning point in the financial services industry. Not only did the collapse have disa..
FINANCE
Bother attacks the antiquated supermarket model
As panic buying kickstarts again, a new digital retailer hits the UK, offering Brits a solution to the pain points of the weekly shop ..
BUSINESS
Don’t judge a business by its location: entrepreneurial creativity could help fix the fraud industry
By Tamas Kadar, Founder and CEO of SEON The COVID-19 pandemic has created a paradigm shift across many industries, with companies migr..
BUSINESS
5 Top tips in Investing on Diamonds
Investing in diamonds can be extremely rewarding if you know what to look out for. However, for inexperienced investors, putting your ..
INVESTING
How Digital Signage and AVoIP Solutions Can Enhance the Return to Work
By Mark Stanborough, Sales Director EMEA & APAC, MediaStar Systems The sound of technology projects within corporate and financial..
BUSINESS
How to improve sales during a global pandemic
By Chris Farmer, leadership and management training expert and founder of Corporate Coach Group, outlines the key changes salespeople ..
BUSINESS
How has the pandemic shifted the perception of the local bank branch?
By Brian Holden, Director, Financial Services at SAS UK & Ireland The idea that branch banking is on its way out is nothing new. I..
BANKING
Investment and innovation: the route forward for financial services firms
By Tim FitzGerald, UK Banking & Financial Services Sales Manager, InterSystems The number of critical challenges facing financial ..
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Data integrity: the holy grail of operational efficiency
By Douglas Greenwell, Director, Duco While those in the field of medicine are chasing a vaccine for Covid-19, firms elsewhere are see..
TECHNOLOGY
Why the banking industry needs to offer more than just enticing perks and subscription services
By Josipa Majic, CEO and founder, Revuto The subscription economy has experienced significant uptake in the last few years, with McKin..
BANKING
12 steps to implementing Off-Payroll (IR35) compliance
By Dave Chaplin, CEO and founder of contracting authority ContractorCalculator and IR35 Shield, which provides expert contracting adv..
FINANCE
Consumers in the COVID era can learn to embrace strong customer authentication
By Ed Whitehead, Signifyd managing director, EMEA The changes that COVID-19 has caused in rapid succession make it hard to slow down a..
BUSINESS
Why Explainable AI (XAI) will have a major role in financial services
By Alexei Markovits, AI Team Manager, Element AI Ground-breaking advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are changing our world all t..
TECHNOLOGY
Why the COVID-19 pandemic is pushing forward the ESG agenda
By Marc Beattie, Chief Operating Officer at AHR Private Wealth, and Iain Ramsay, Chief Investment Officer at AHR Private Wealth The CO..
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Insurtech: Why Established Players Need to Act Fast
Technology-led disruptive business models are already here and changing the game By Will Andrews, Director, Trianz and Satya Madakshir..
TECHNOLOGY
The changing role of today’s CFO
By Neil Kinson, Chief of Staff, at Redwood Software Financial leaders are increasingly required to become more tech-savvy. In fact, th..
FINANCE
How can Financial Services marketing teams better utilise AI-marketing tools?
By Chloe Blatch, Digital Marketing Expert, ThinkEngine As Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology continues to shape the future of dig..
TECHNOLOGY
How AI-driven technology can make expense management faster, smarter and easier
By Andrew Foster, VP Consulting, AppZen Now more than ever, finance chiefs and their teams are looking to technology to redefine finan..
TECHNOLOGY
Insurtech Reveals Hidden Costs of Home Working
By Jimmy Williams, is the CEO of Insurtech Urban Jungle , which provides insurance to generation rent and millennials. Since founding ..
BUSINESS
Why Businesses Must Invest in Cloud Technology Now
By Luke Mead, CEO of IT company LMS Group, which he founded when he was just 15 years old. LMS Group is a Microsoft Gold and Cisco Sel..
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