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There is no question that the principles of supply chain finance (SCF) are strong and that the correspondent benefits are considerable. The perspective to get financed on the basis of the client’s cre...
Research out earlier in January, from TheCityUK, has shown that financial services accounts for a substantive 9.6 per cent of the UK’s GDP. This was up from 9.4 per cent in the previous year. When com...
Everyone at some point in their life was at the bottom of the food chain… but how do you beat time and forge a presence in your industry sector?... As an aspiring entrepreneur aiming to breach the sta...
It's always seemed like the wrangling over regulation in Europe's capital markets was, in many ways, a proxy for the broader political debate raging across the region. No surprise, then, that on the e...
The answer to that question for most of us has probably been “learning by doing”. If you get the right job that puts you in a role where you get the opportunity to deal close-up with technology, you ...
Great article in FundFire assessing the state of compliance and employment opportunities for those with compliance experience. Among the key points made are that compliance is more important than eve...
It’s pretty frightening when I hear my colleagues who specialise in security services describe the kind of things that hackers get up to – maybe because I think that I’m pretty clever (38 years in IT,...
If I was a Financial Director of a medium to large sized business there should be some alarm bells going off right now concerning moving to mobile devices. Especially if you have invested a huge sum o...
Leading the March Emerging markets are ripe for changing the way business-to-business payments are made. Apart from the need to maintain good supplier relationships, corporates are looking to adopt th...
A recent blog post from analyst house Forrester has predicted that real-time analytics will be a key focus area within Big Data in 2013. The reason? The ability to quickly take on board new informati...
In a recent interview, Larry Page shared his view on the secret of Google's success - make your product TEN TIMES better than your rival's. Last week we sent limited information on one of our forthco...
I attended a retail banking conference recently, where the conversation surrounding customer service was more present than I ever could have imagined. I’m no cynic, in fact, I don’t even dabble much i...