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Why Failure Is an Entrepreneur’s Best Friend

Why Failure Is an Entrepreneur’s Best Friend

By: Gabriel Ciordas, CEO at Creatopy Is it a number? Is it a feeling? Is it a specific place you want to be? The people yo..

How SMEs have fared with Brexit one year on and what to expect in 2022

How SMEs have fared with Brexit one year on and what to expect in 2022

Ian Duffy, CEO of Accelerated Payments At the start of last year, small and medium-sized businesses in the United Kingdom ..

What the heck is integrated marketing?

What the heck is integrated marketing?

Gone are the days when good marketing involved only a recognisable logo, a catchy slogan and a TV, radio or print campaign..

Bank of England calls for wage restraint to keep grip on inflation

Bank of England calls for wage restraint to keep grip on inflation

By William Schomberg and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) -Two top Bank of England officials stressed on Friday the need for restraint ..

Efficient Back Office Applications Are Key to Productivity and Costs

Efficient Back Office Applications Are Key to Productivity and Costs

Mark Vivian, CEO at Claremont The pandemic bought about years of digital change across all sectors in a matter of months. To stay comp..

5 Proptech trends you need to know about in 2022

5 Proptech trends you need to know about in 2022

Leading proptech firm,houzenis at the forefront of innovation when it comes to blending the latest technology with the UK property mar..

The case for extending auto-enrolment

The case for extending auto-enrolment

By: Pete Hykin, Co-founder, Penfold Auto-enrolment may be the most significant initiative launched within the pensions industry, but n..

Why there is an ‘opportunity cost’ for SMEs fearful of debt

Why there is an ‘opportunity cost’ for SMEs fearful of debt

By Stuart Lawson, Chief Commercial Officer at Funding Options For many, ‘debt’ carries such a stigma it can be hard not to..

SGS and Diginex form strategic alliance to provide data assurance services as regulators double down on ESG best practice

SGS and Diginex form strategic alliance to provide data assurance services as regulators double down on ESG best practice

24th January, London/Switzerland: SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, and Diginex, an impact..

CIOs spending more time on innovation than ever before

CIOs spending more time on innovation than ever before

London 24th January, 2022: CIOs are spending more time on innovation, with three quarters stating they have increased innovation effor..

More than a quarter of hospitality and retail workers want out

More than a quarter of hospitality and retail workers want out

29% of UK hospitality workers and 28% of retail workers want to leave their jobs 22% of hospitality workers hope to switch to a new i..

UK Banking Jobs Finish 2021 At Record Levels With NatWest And Nationwide In Pandemic Hiring Comebacks — New Report

UK Banking Jobs Finish 2021 At Record Levels With NatWest And Nationwide In Pandemic Hiring Comebacks — New Report

New banking jobs in 2021 up by 129% year-on-year in United Kingdom Hiring levels at NatWest and Nationwide surge after difficult 2020..

MRL Consulting Group Reports 95% staff retention, 84% employee mental health Improvement since piloting the four-day working week

MRL Consulting Group Reports 95% staff retention, 84% employee mental health Improvement since piloting the four-day working week

After closing its offices every Friday in May 2019, UK recruitment firm, MRL Consulting Group, saw an incredible 95% staff retention r..

Government-backed StartUp UK campaign to encourage 1 million people to launch their own business

Government-backed StartUp UK campaign to encourage 1 million people to launch their own business

Enterprise Nation, the UK’s leading small business network and business support provider is set to launch a ‘once in a generation’ cam..

Ayming welcomes Serena Guthrie MBE, England Netball Captain, as a special advisor and coach within its People, Performance, & Development business

Ayming welcomes Serena Guthrie MBE, England Netball Captain, as a special advisor and coach within its People, Performance, & Development business

London, 20 January – Innovation consultancy, Ayming, is delighted to announce that England Netball Captain, Serena Guthrie MBE, will b..

UK Government helps British business export emergency bridges to Ghana

UK Government helps British business export emergency bridges to Ghana

UK Export Finance provides billions to support development projects in Africa, while securing export contracts for UK companies £42 m..

The Five Biggest Losers of the Pandemic

The Five Biggest Losers of the Pandemic

Research by Connectr, the leading HR tech platform for building businesses where people belong, has revealed the five groups hardest h..

Remote managers killing culture – 60% of professionals report feeling ‘disengaged’ due to lack of face time with leaders

Remote managers killing culture – 60% of professionals report feeling ‘disengaged’ due to lack of face time with leaders

2 in 3 professionals will leave their job this year if they don’t get more face time with their manager Half state that less meetings..

90% of UK businesses risk cyber-attacks and fines due to IT weaknesses

90% of UK businesses risk cyber-attacks and fines due to IT weaknesses

New data illustrates just how vulnerable Britain’s SMEs are – as IT and compliance weakness is rampant and cyberattacks are more..

Euro jumps after hawkish comments from ECB’s Lagarde

Euro jumps after hawkish comments from ECB’s Lagarde

By Stefano Rebaudo (Reuters) -The euro jumped against the dollar on Thursday after comments from ECB president Christine Lagarde fuell..

New Study Shows 49% Of Marketers Say They Are Looking to Contextual Advertising to Replace Cookies

New Study Shows 49% Of Marketers Say They Are Looking to Contextual Advertising to Replace Cookies

New research from GumGum and Brand Innovators underscores the need for more education on contextual advertising London, UK..

White Bullet’s integration with Silverbullet’s next generation Context Outcomes Engine, 4D, is now live

White Bullet’s integration with Silverbullet’s next generation Context Outcomes Engine, 4D, is now live

The cybersecurity and intellectual property protection company’s integration with Silverbullet’s engine prevents programma..

Oil prices take a breather, OPEC+ sticks to output plans

Oil prices take a breather, OPEC+ sticks to output plans

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Oil prices eased on Thursday following weak U.S. payrolls data and some profit taking, but re..

HeidelbergCement CEO optimistic for 2022, flags new CO2 roadmap

HeidelbergCement CEO optimistic for 2022, flags new CO2 roadmap

By Christoph Steitz and Ilona Wissenbach FRANKFURT (Reuters) – HeidelbergCement can match or even exceed last year’s growt..

British COVID trial deliberately infecting young adults found to be safe

British COVID trial deliberately infecting young adults found to be safe

By Josephine Mason and Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -The world’s first “human challenge” trial in which volunteer..

German retail slump highlights COVID roadblocks to recovery

German retail slump highlights COVID roadblocks to recovery

By Zuzanna Szymanska BERLIN (Reuters) -A big fall in German retail sales as COVID-19 curbs kept people out of shops over the usually b..

Global stocks trade higher at the end of a volatile month

Global stocks trade higher at the end of a volatile month

By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – World stocks climbed higher on Monday as investors digested new optimism from the U.S...

The Era Of Rapid Digital Marketing

The Era Of Rapid Digital Marketing

The digital era is well and truly here. We see the careful strokes of modernisations of digital and technological design and intent pl..

impact.com announces huge investment in workforce with raft of new hires globally

impact.com announces huge investment in workforce with raft of new hires globally

The technology company announces 48 new hires in the first month of 2022, with hundreds more to follow over the course of the year  Lo..

Newly inaugurated Honduran president says appreciates Taiwan ‘solidarity’

Newly inaugurated Honduran president says appreciates Taiwan ‘solidarity’

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduras’ new president, Xiomara Castro, said she met with Taiwan Vice President William Lai after..

Dollar gains as Wall Street retreats on future Fed hikes

Dollar gains as Wall Street retreats on future Fed hikes

By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. stocks retreated on Thursday after a solid opening, while the dollar gained as inv..

New whistleblowing laws in Europe are generating additional homework for companies’ compliance efforts

New whistleblowing laws in Europe are generating additional homework for companies’ compliance efforts

By Alja Poler De Zwart (Partner, Brussels) & Mercedes Samavi (Senior Associate, London), Morrison & Foerster LLP Is your compa..

Small Business Strategies for Staying Open During the COVID Era

Small Business Strategies for Staying Open During the COVID Era

To stay afloat throughout COVID-19, most companies — both large and small — have had to change the ways they do business. Many started..

Asian shares slump as Powell warns on inflation

Asian shares slump as Powell warns on inflation

By Andrew Galbraith SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Asian shares fell to their lowest in more than 14 months, short-term U.S. yields rose t..

Stocks shed gains, Treasury yields jump as Fed signals rate hikes could come ‘soon’

Stocks shed gains, Treasury yields jump as Fed signals rate hikes could come ‘soon’

By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. stocks retreated Wednesday, erasing strong gains, after the Federal Reserve signal..

Microsoft offers strong forecast, lifting shares

Microsoft offers strong forecast, lifting shares

By Nivedita Balu and Jane Lanhee Lee (Reuters) -Microsoft Corp on Tuesday forecast revenue for the current quarter broadly ahead of Wa..

Global share sell off pauses in Asia as investors await Fed policy update

Global share sell off pauses in Asia as investors await Fed policy update

By Stella Qiu and Alun John BEIJING (Reuters) – Asian share markets steadied on Wednesday after three sessions of losses as inve..