How finance and compliance professionals can stay one step ahead post-Covid
By Professor Guido Palazzo, Academic Director at Executive Education HEC Lausanne Amid all the financial, logistical and operational pressures the pandemic…
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Opinion: is now the time to change your redundancy strategy?
Guest post by Chris Locke The Coronavirus crisis has resulted in layoffs on a scale never seen before. Recent surveys show…
Business confidence edges up, but remains near historic low
Overall business confidence improved for the second consecutive month in July, rising eight percentage points according to the Lloyds Bank Commercial…
Start-Up loans: where the money went and who got it
The British Business Bank’s Start Up Loans programme has just issued its 75,000th loan, marking more than £623 million invested in…
Crowdfund donations ‘rose 1,000 per cent in Lockdown’
As the pandemic swept across the country earlier this year, crowdfunding campaigns were soaring on course to raise record amounts, according…
Time to act on ‘amnesty’, say tax experts
Accountants and tax advisers have been warning companies of the perils of furlough abuse now that the so-called amnesty has begun….
Finance teams targeted as ‘email hijack attacks’ rise 22%
Cybercriminals are targeting finance teams with attacks designed to intercept their emails and divert client payments into the hackers’ bank accounts,…
Paper-trail processes ‘leave us trailing behind’
More UK finance decision makers have labelled their company as inefficient than two years ago while the number of teams who…
Job loss fears as North braced for new Lockdown
More than half of finance directors in Yorkshire expect to make Covid-related redundancies with as many as nine in ten braved…
The pension pandemic that is putting retirement on hold
More than a third of those saving for a pension – equivalent to seven million people – have taken action relating…