Finextra Research
Sibos 2025
Sign in
Sign up
Sibos 2025
  • News
    • Latest news
    • Company updates
    • Long reads
  • TV
  • Research
  • Events
    • All
    • Conferences
    • Webinars
    • Popular
  • Community
    • Community latest
    • Latest expert opinions
    • Groups
    • Search members
  • Jobs
  • APIs
Sign in
Sign up
Sibos 2025
  • News
    • Back
    • News
    • Latest news
    • Company updates
    • Long reads
  • TV
  • Research
  • Events
    • Back
    • Events
    • All
    • Conferences
    • Webinars
    • Popular
  • Community
    • Back
    • Community
    • Community latest
    • Latest expert opinions
    • Groups
    • Search members
  • Jobs
  • APIs
  • payments
  • markets
  • retail
  • wholesale
  • wealth
  • regulation
  • crime
  • crypto
  • sustainable
  • startups
  • devops
  • identity
  • security
  • cloud
  • ai

Community

  • Your feed
  • Latest expert opinions
  • Groups

Join the Community

24,237
Expert opinions
40,776
Total members
360
New members (last 30 days)
222
New opinions (last 30 days)
29,313
Total comments
Join Sign in
Follow Unfollow

Ian Smith

Finance Director
Invu
Member since
08 Dec 2020
Location
Northampton
Followers
0
Following
0
Opinions
4
Long reads
0
Followed by John Sims, Martha Boyle and 5 others you follow
View Ian Smith's full profile

Ian's opinions

clear
Ian Smith

MANY BUSINESSES FAILING TO FOCUS ON CASH FLOW, SURVEY FINDS

- Only 14% of UK Finance departments report a primary focus on cash flow during the COVID-19 pandemic - 09 SEPTEMBER 2021: Research has shown that just 14% of UK Finance decision-makers focused on cash flow during the last Covid-19 lockdown. The majority of businesses focussed on cost-cutting exercises and the use of Government support. For examp...

09 September 2021 /payments Business

Ian Smith

85% OF FINANCE DEPARTMENTS STRUGGLE TO INNOVATE

- The majority of finance-decision makers admit to still printing out supplier invoices - New research has shown that UK Finance departments are failing to keep up with the times. The majority of UK Finance decision-makers (85%) have admitted to having an accounts payable process that sometimes requires supplier invoices to still be printed out, ev...

19 July 2021 /payments /people Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Ian Smith

Business survival rests on 'business as usual' remote working

The message from the Government is “the finish line in the race against Covid is in sight”, but the reality is very different. Mass vaccination is being rolled out across the country and with it is a glimmer of hope that some sort of normality will return to our personal and working lives. Most of us will admit to having uttered the words “I can’...

15 February 2021

Ian writes about

  • payments
  • people

Ian's opinion archive

  • 2021 (1)

Welcome to Finextra. We use cookies to help us to deliver our services. You may change your preferences at our Cookie Centre.

Please read our Privacy Policy.

Accept
Finextra

Finextra

  • About

Community

  • Rules
  • Contact the community team

News

  • Guidance
  • Contact the news desk

Sales

  • Media pack
  • Contact the sales team

Get involved

  • Finextra Live@
  • Webinars
  • Finextra TV
  • Research
  • Finextra.jobs
  • Finextra Pro

Events

  • Sustainable Finance Live
  • NextGen Nordics
  • EBAday
  • NextGen:AI

Members

Join the community News alerts

Follow

Download Finextra Pro

Download Finextra Pro from Apple App Store Download Finextra Pro from Google App Store

Download Finextra News

Download Finextra News from Apple App Store Download Finextra News from Google App Store

© Finextra Research 2025

Terms of usePrivacy PolicyCookie Centre