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 1 in 5 UK workers believe there is a gender divide with work uniforms

 1 in 5 UK workers believe there is a gender divide with work uniforms

20% of workers believe there is a gender divide when it comes to uniforms in the workplace 45 to 55 year olds felt the most affected ..

DueCourse secures £6.25m investment

DueCourse secures £6.25m investment

The Manchester-based FinTech company raises investment to grow its lending to UK SMEs DueCourse, the cloud-based invoice financing ser..

Incentive QAS Expands Retail Portfolio With Million Pound Shopping Centre Contract

Incentive QAS Expands Retail Portfolio With Million Pound Shopping Centre Contract

Incentive QAS, the specialist cleaning business, has been awarded a million pound, three-year contract by leading property management ..

IRIS Software Group appoints Sion Lewis as CEO of its accountancy division

IRIS Software Group appoints Sion Lewis as CEO of its accountancy division

IRIS Software Group, the UK’s leading provider of business critical software and services, is today announcing the appointment of Sion..

Birmingham lines up post-Brexit housing plan, with a little help from its friends in China

Birmingham lines up post-Brexit housing plan, with a little help from its friends in China

Birmingham population grew 9.5% in past decade (Census data) Country Garden to invest £2 billion in Birmingham projects UK is most po..

Setting the pace – Cognitive financial planning and analysis for business agility

Setting the pace – Cognitive financial planning and analysis for business agility

By Paul Campion, Director, IBM Global Financing, UK&I Paul Campion The pace of change within, and without, a business is ever inc..

Life post Brexit – people must take precedent

Life post Brexit – people must take precedent

Mike Laven, CEO of Currencycloud, explains what the future post-Brexit could look like Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and final..

FinTech v the Banks: Uneasy Bedfellows or a Match Made in Heaven?

FinTech v the Banks: Uneasy Bedfellows or a Match Made in Heaven?

By Rahul Singh, President, Financial Services, HCL Technologies The rapid succession of macro and micro-economic forces unleashed in t..

Why this Aussie entrepreneur is still bullish about British bricks & mortar post Brexit

Why this Aussie entrepreneur is still bullish about British bricks & mortar post Brexit

Investorist Founder launches B Round Capital Raising to fund continued global expansion B2B trading platform eyes new office in North..

FICO Provides Decisioning Platform for Smartphone-Only buddybank in Italy

FICO Provides Decisioning Platform for Smartphone-Only buddybank in Italy

UniCredit will launch buddybank in early 2017 in Italy HIGHLIGHTS: FICO is providing the decision management platform forUniCredit’sb..

The rise of virtual agents: the future banking experience

The rise of virtual agents: the future banking experience

Doug Overton, VP Consulting & Analysis at WDS Global, a Xerox company, explains how machine learning technology and virtual agents..

How to turn a UK startup into a global success 

How to turn a UK startup into a global success 

Andy Shannon, Head of Startupbootcamp Global Andy Shannon After establishing a successful business in the UK, the next step for many..

Scissors among most commonly confiscated items at airports

Scissors among most commonly confiscated items at airports

Airport security seizures include everything from sun tan lotion to bullets  Almost a quarter (24%) of Brits who tried to take banned ..

How big data is sending shockwaves through the financial services sector

How big data is sending shockwaves through the financial services sector

By James Blake, CEO of big data firm Hello Soda James Blake The world of financial services is changing at the hands of big data and ..

World-Class Finance: Digital Transformation and Analytics-Based Decision Making Among Key Imperatives for Creating Finance Agility

World-Class Finance: Digital Transformation and Analytics-Based Decision Making Among Key Imperatives for Creating Finance Agility

World-Class Spend Less & Rely on Fewer Staff While Driving Higher Levels of Effectiveness, Agility and Insight World-class finance..

TALL Marks its 25th Year with Celebration Day 

TALL Marks its 25th Year with Celebration Day 

TALL Security Print, a leader in secure print and electronic payment services, celebrated its 25th year of operation. Business leaders..

Data analytics, scenario planning, and the finance department

Data analytics, scenario planning, and the finance department

Rob Douglas, VP Sales UK & Ireland, Adaptive Insights The role of the finance department has slowly but radically evolved in the a..

Getting lenders on the hook

Getting lenders on the hook

Paul Surtees, MD and Co-founder, Capitalise.com What kind of bait can secure business funding? There are now an unprecedented number o..

Viva el vino! Perfect Spanish homes for wine lovers as UNWTO raises a glass to wine tourism

Viva el vino! Perfect Spanish homes for wine lovers as UNWTO raises a glass to wine tourism

Inaugural UNWTO Global Conference on Wine Tourism attracts delegates from nearly 50 countries In Spain, well known La Rioja region is..

Andalucian Open returns to ‘Costa del Golf’ as golfers go in search of the perfect pad close to the fairway

Andalucian Open returns to ‘Costa del Golf’ as golfers go in search of the perfect pad close to the fairway

68% of golf courses in Spain directly or indirectly linked with a real estate development (Real Federación Española de Golf) Time it ..

The beauty of cashflow

The beauty of cashflow

Every company needs cashflow first and everything else second. That’s right, everything else second.Craft beer on tap? Second. Really ..

Car hire for SMEs: Things to consider

Car hire for SMEs: Things to consider

There is a growing trend in the number of SMEs choosing to hire cars long term instead of purchasing them outright.  With a large numb..

Four reasons whycloud-based inventory management is important for your ecommerce business

Four reasons whycloud-based inventory management is important for your ecommerce business

Running a business online, unfortunately isn’t all about selling. You can have the best product in the market place, selling thousands..

Transforming the banking experience to be mobile-first and people-centric

Transforming the banking experience to be mobile-first and people-centric

By Magnus Jern, president DMI International Mobile banking has revolutionised the way we interact with our banks and manage our money...

Challenger Banks Missing Golden Opportunity To Steal Business From Competitors By Repeating Same Old Mistakes

Challenger Banks Missing Golden Opportunity To Steal Business From Competitors By Repeating Same Old Mistakes

Banks Warned fragmented Customer Communications Negating Competitive Advantage in Digital Future The Competition and Marketing Authori..

Pensions Awareness Day: Could you get by on less than living wage? 

Pensions Awareness Day: Could you get by on less than living wage? 

Average private pension pot would provide income of just £2,027 per year Tips on making the most of your pension pot from day one Pe..

Banking on Snow Automation Platform for Success

Banking on Snow Automation Platform for Success

COMPANY BACKGROUND As a leading bank in its home markets of Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Swedbank has more than seven millio..

Has Brexit stopped Brits from buying?

Has Brexit stopped Brits from buying?

Retail sales surge at fastest rate for 6 months (CBI) Retail sales spiked 1.4% in July (ONS) Brits expecting inflation of 2.2% over n..

iGTB’s Payments Services Hub – FAQ

iGTB’s Payments Services Hub – FAQ

What is the Payments Services Hub (PSH)? iGTB’s Payments Services Hub (PSH) is a centralised real-time payments and transaction manage..

Unlocking the code – How to benefit from low code platforms

Unlocking the code – How to benefit from low code platforms

By Kieran Saunders, senior business consultant at FileMaker Software development has long been seen as an important skill. Initially w..

Banking and Fintech Convergence will Increase Reliance on IT

Banking and Fintech Convergence will Increase Reliance on IT

By Mark Weir, Regional Director UK & Ireland at Fortinet  Will fintech and blockchain banking improve security, or introduce new r..

FIME’s Japanese laboratory achieves AMEX & EMV C-4 accreditations

FIME’s Japanese laboratory achieves AMEX & EMV C-4 accreditations

Supports contactless payment terminal and mPOS manufacturers, and kernel developers, with certification projects FIME is pleased to an..

Reinsurance demand increasing as growth opportunities emerge, according to Aon outlook report

Reinsurance demand increasing as growth opportunities emerge, according to Aon outlook report

New study highlights key opportunities for re/insurance capital across diverse sectors Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermedia..

Managing trade credit and insurance in the context of international commerce expansion 

Managing trade credit and insurance in the context of international commerce expansion 

By Mike Feldwick,Head of UK & Ireland at Tinubu Square Mike Feldwick Trade credit risk exposure is a top concern for CEO’s and CF..

This is the best week for cash-savvy iPhone fans to sell their 6s models

This is the best week for cash-savvy iPhone fans to sell their 6s models

iPhone 6s and 6s Plus owners can expect to get the most money on a trade-in this week (12-18 September), following the announcement of..

How P2P analytics can help you stop fraudsters getting rich at your expense

How P2P analytics can help you stop fraudsters getting rich at your expense

 Jereme Pineda, Product Manager, Basware Analytics Is your business inadvertently handing over the keys to its safe to unscrupulous em..

Avalara EMEA Summit Explores Future of VAT Automation

Avalara EMEA Summit Explores Future of VAT Automation

Key Theme Includes EU VAT Fraud: Eliminating the €160 Billion VAT Gap Avalara EMEA, a leading provider of cloud-based transactional ta..