Defining the skills gap with Avado’s Beyond Skills report June 1, 2021 | City Talk Last month, we launched our Beyond Skills report. We surveyed more than 1,000 executives and senior leaders across several sectors to assess the growing capability chasm. We found that more than 3/5 of business leaders agree that the events of 2020 have widened the skills gaps in their businesses. We also found that, across the [...]
Agility jargon buster: Decoding words used to describe agile working June 1, 2021 | City Talk As trains and roads start to get busier as workers return to offices – for at least some of the week –agile working is top of mind for most employers and employees at the moment. Especially since lots of organisations are using a hybrid model, with teams both in and out of office, requiring extra [...]
Explaining the seven different learning styles and how they work June 1, 2021 | City Talk We all respond best to different ways of learning. Based on that, the seven learning styles are the result of a theory that focuses on the fact people learn in different ways. Each style is tailored to an individual strength, meant to help a person retain information more effectively. They all focus on one of [...]
Aisha Ghani CA: My return to work journey May 31, 2021 | City Talk Aisha Ghani CA, Finance Business Partner at Sue Ryder, discusses her return to work, de-bunks stereotypes of sole carers and shares her advice for those who may be in a similar situation. You have recently returned to work after an extended career break. What influenced you to take this time away from work? Having trained [...]
Exclusive: Meet the former UBS and JPMorgan heavyweights shaking up private banking May 28, 2021 As the economy is slowly switching into recovery gear, activity in the City and beyond is starting to pick up again. That is also the case for Vestrata, a relatively new fintech player that is taking the wealth management and private banking space by storm by bring machine learning and automated risk metrics into the [...]
Crowdfunding: Fintech app Curve rakes in £10m in just 54 hours May 28, 2021 Fintech app Curve has raked in nearly £10m in just 54 hours, in the largest equity raise on crowdfunding platform Crowdcube’s record. A collection of 11,795 investors pushed the equity raise into near double digits, breaking multiple records during Crowdcube’s campaign. Closing at 3pm yesterday, investors raised £9.9m. The fintech app, which connects all bank accounts [...]
A light touch interventionist strategy for freeports May 27, 2021 | Sponsored Richard Ballantyne, CEO of British Ports Association explains why the private sector, with a light touch from local and regional government, would improve the effectiveness of the freeport to generate economic growth.
It all adds up to a Queen’s Award for accountancy software company Inflo May 26, 2021 | Sponsored Inflo is one of 48 organisations nationally to be recognised in 2021 with a celebrated Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation, acknowledging the unique position the company has achieved within the accounting industry with its software. Founded in 2016, Inflo has built a global reputation for award winning audit software. The platform now supports over [...]
Paysend raises $125m Series B round as it eyes further global expansion May 26, 2021 Global payments platform Paysend has secured a $125m Series B round to help further fund its global expansion plans. Paysend, which launched four years ago, allows customers and businesses to send money online from anywhere in the world in any currency. It boasts more than 3.7m customers in over 60 countries since its launch. “Our [...]
Directors’ case studies on their wider section 172 responsibilities May 26, 2021 | City Talk ICAS has published a collection of case studies to support the application of directors’ section 172 duties. Our publication consists of real-life case studies that have been gathered from a wide range of CAs in their capacity as board members in both private and listed companies. They outline the judgements board members applied and how different [...]
