Women make comeback after pandemic restrictions ease
WOMEN in the financial services sector have bounced back following the relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions according to one of Scotland’s leading…
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Pandemic and pensions – savers are getting younger
The pandemic has positively changed people’s attitudes towards finances, driving a shift towards saving for the future – particularly among younger…
An alternative view of funding – and debt
Guest columnist Stuart Lawson makes his case SMEs make up 99.9 per cent of the UK’s business population and are responsible…
Avoiding the pitfalls of early-stage investing
By Chantelle Arneaud Early-stage investments are one-offs which often makes them difficult to assess. This is not helped by the…
Women and finance: bridging the gap
Opinion by Jade De-Crescenzo The old adage from any female in a male over-represented field tends to be: “I got to…
Is the CFO’s planning pandemic only just beginning?
Guest post by Mark Jenkins Failing to plan is planning to fail. As CFOs we know this adage well, yet in…
Named: the universities that produce our business leaders
If you want to become a CEO or Managing Director, there’s one way to get off to a flying start –…
Why Mr Mo is one in 750m
The British Business Bank’s Start Up Loans passed a major milestone today, having lent of £750 million, amounting to more than…
HMRC ‘phishing’ scams surge 87 per cent
Reports of HMRC-branded phishing scams have jumped from 572,029 to 1,069,522 in the past year – a surge of 87 per…
Pandemic ‘saw £615 billion private funding bonanza’
UK firms defied predictions of the demise of private capital by raising over half a trillion pounds last year outside of…