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The evolving role of the CFO

The evolving role of the CFO

By Marieke Saeij, CEO, Visma | Onguard The data that financial professionals have at their fingertips is becoming increasingly importa..

How Financial Services Firms Can Mitigate Against Their Top Data Security Threats

How Financial Services Firms Can Mitigate Against Their Top Data Security Threats

By Martin Ward, Director, Security Governance Risk and Compliance, iManage Sensitive data is the coin of the realm for fin..

Aussie dollar firm as bonds tumble, yen looks past BOJ

Aussie dollar firm as bonds tumble, yen looks past BOJ

By Alun John HONG KONG (Reuters) – Central bank policymakers buffeted currency trading on Thursday as the Australian dollar held..

The Emerging Growth of Specialist Finance in the UK

The Emerging Growth of Specialist Finance in the UK

Specialist finance is an increasingly exciting area of borrowing and money lending that is growing rapidly in the UK.  This refers to ..

Experts Warn of Buy Now, Pay Later Ahead of Black Friday

Experts Warn of Buy Now, Pay Later Ahead of Black Friday

With Britons spending more than £8.6 billion during Black Friday last year, this will no doubt be a busy time for shoppers and retaile..

Christmas saved for expats: Flights frequency to increase by 256%

Christmas saved for expats: Flights frequency to increase by 256%

Wherever you live in the world, Christmas 2020 was a strange one. For people in the UK, it was a strange experience because different ..

Why an orchestrated digital identity strategy is vital for financial organisations in fighting fraud

Why an orchestrated digital identity strategy is vital for financial organisations in fighting fraud

By Bala Kumar, Chief Product Officer, Jumio New reports call Britain the bank scam capital of the world with enormous amounts of money..

How to Buy Income-Producing Real Estate Without Your Own Money or Credit

How to Buy Income-Producing Real Estate Without Your Own Money or Credit

By: Marco Kozlowski Contrary to popular belief, it is a complete myth that you need money or amazing credit in order to replace your d..

Can Foreign Nationals Qualify For a Loan in The UK?

Can Foreign Nationals Qualify For a Loan in The UK?

All lenders have their own unique policies and eligibility requirements when it comes to issuing loans, but what remains the same with..

Autumn budget predictions

Autumn budget predictions

By Nicholas Smith, Director and Head of Tax at Duncan & Toplis This year’s Autumn Budget on 27 October is set to be an interesting..

Card spending in UK falls below pre-COVID average – ONS

Card spending in UK falls below pre-COVID average – ONS

LONDON (Reuters) – Spending on credit and debit cards in Britain fell last week to 97% of its pre-pandemic average in February 2..

Ratatouille and the Art of Being a VC

Ratatouille and the Art of Being a VC

By Yusuf Ozdalga, London Partner, QED Investors The animated Pixar movie Ratatouille depicts the adventures of a rat follo..

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..

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..

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..

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..

What is the Optimal Number of Slides in a Pitch Deck?

What is the Optimal Number of Slides in a Pitch Deck?

If you are searching for the best ways to develop a pitch deck, it probably means you are working towards winning over investors for t..

Data – Time for some “Levelling Up”

Data – Time for some “Levelling Up”

By Rupert D.E. Brown, CTO Evidology Systems Data content, governance and security have been very much to the fore across i..

New ISLA Standards Provide the Foundation for Resource Optimisation, Efficiency and Risk Mitigation

New ISLA Standards Provide the Foundation for Resource Optimisation, Efficiency and Risk Mitigation

Modernising the management of contracts is long overdue. While many market participants in the securities lending market have reaped s..

How application management can help tackle the finance industry’s carbon emissions

How application management can help tackle the finance industry’s carbon emissions

With ambitious net-zero targets being pledged, there is growing pressure on the ‘high carbon’ finance industry to reduce emissions as ..

Incombustible infrastructures: dousing the risk of spreadsheet fires in the financial sector

Incombustible infrastructures: dousing the risk of spreadsheet fires in the financial sector

By Gabriele Albarosa, CEO, LiveDataset It’s no surprise to anyone that banks and financial services organisations face an immense amou..

9 priceless tips to help you secure the right contractor mortgage

9 priceless tips to help you secure the right contractor mortgage

The biggest myth surrounding contractor mortgages is that they’re nigh on impossible to secure. That banks don’t want to lend money to..

Managing compliance complexity will deliver security rewards

Managing compliance complexity will deliver security rewards

By Dave Waterson, CEO, SentryBay In the escalating battle against cyberthreats, financial services companies need to think beyond trad..

How to overcome the current challenges facing your fintech business

How to overcome the current challenges facing your fintech business

By Faye Maughan, Investment Manager at ECI Partners, the leading growth-focused mid-market private equity firm  As a fintech business ..

How fintech innovations can change our tomorrow

How fintech innovations can change our tomorrow

Financial ‘Goal Mall’, Goalry, is an entirely new fintech experience that is set to reinvent personal finance. Goalry offers an insigh..

The problem with current Anti-Money Laundering processes: A lack of context

The problem with current Anti-Money Laundering processes: A lack of context

By Alexon Bell Anti-money-laundering efforts are prone to some wins and some failures, as it has been since the dawn of the anti-money..

Protecting your Financial Information and Identity

Protecting your Financial Information and Identity

By Yash Mudaliar, Cloud Security Engineer at Atech.cloud   If anyone asks you about the two most sensitive things that you would like ..

COVID-19: Putting a spotlight on MEA payment systems

COVID-19: Putting a spotlight on MEA payment systems

By Sahar Salama, CEO and Founder, TPAY MOBILE The ramifications of the COVID pandemic have been felt the world over and much has been ..

Virtual cards will help lead the travel industry into a post-pandemic boom

Virtual cards will help lead the travel industry into a post-pandemic boom

By Spencer Hanlon – Global Head of Travel Payments and Head of Europe at Nium It’s no understatement that the travel..

New research reveals the countries leaving cash behind

New research reveals the countries leaving cash behind

According to new figures, cash payments are on the decline across Europe as countries began leaving tangible currency behind. The figu..

How innovation and collaboration are evolving the fight against financial crime

How innovation and collaboration are evolving the fight against financial crime

Q&A with Andrew Davies, Vice President, Global Market Strategy, Financial Crime Risk Management at Fiserv Although it..

Financial digital transformation: An opportunity, not a threat

Financial digital transformation: An opportunity, not a threat

By Simon Kearsley, CEO of bluQube Industry across the country and globally is going through a fourth industrial revolution, and accoun..

Riskified Breaks Down Barriers to Make Ecommerce Navigation Easier Than Ever

Riskified Breaks Down Barriers to Make Ecommerce Navigation Easier Than Ever

From the moment that it was first introduced, ecommerce has transformed the way that we approached the consumer experience. For both s..

How to Fail Profitably

How to Fail Profitably

By Julius Černiauskas, CEO at Oxylabs.io Experimentation drives innovation. However, experimentation has to be approached ..

UK inflation expectations show record jump in Sept -Citi/YouGov

UK inflation expectations show record jump in Sept -Citi/YouGov

By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – The British public’s expectations for inflation over the coming year have shot up by ..

Tom Griffiths on The 4 Most Common US Expat Tax Questions Answered

Tom Griffiths on The 4 Most Common US Expat Tax Questions Answered

  Tom Griffiths – tax advisor – Image source: https://unsplash.com/photos/JaoVGh5aJ3E Tom Griffiths is a ..