Interest rate rise: the reaction at a glance
Higher-than-predicted inflation saw the Bank of England raise interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point to 4.25 per cent,…
Financial Management
Million firms operating with no cash margin
Almost one million small companies are running their businesses with £1,000 or less in the bank put aside to help them…
Debunking some of the myths around cryptocurrencies
OPINION By Dennis Sahlstrom Crypto has certainly been in the news a lot recently. There is a lot of speculation about…
IT holds key to ending finance skills shortage
Technology will have an important role to play in solving the skills shortage in the accountancy sector, new research reveals, as younger talent…
Challengers dominate bank lending in 2022
A total of £35.5bn of bank lending came from challenger and specialist banks in 2022 – exceeding lending by the major…
Why we all want to follow the audit trail
Auditing has been revealed as the most in-demand finance career with accountancy the most desirable financial sector to work in. That’s…
Banking duo launch platform ‘to empower SMEs for international trade’
A fintech platform for small and medium sized businesses has launched following a £2 million funding round. The HedgeFlows platform had…
Implications of £25bn self-employed shortfall
Research suggesting the self-employed sector’s contribution to the UK economy fell by an estimated £25 billion in 2022 is a “wake-up…
Spend management in tough times calls for smart indirect spend thinking
By Keith Hausmann, Chief Revenue Officer at Globality, When inflation is in the system, or a supply chain system is under pressure…
Banking reforms could make the UK a sustainable finance hub
By Alper Kara, Professor and Head of Department – Accounting, Finance and Economics, University of Huddersfield The UK government wants to…