FCA commits to having 50/50 gender split in its senior leadership team by 2025 October 11, 2016 The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has unveiled a new set of diversity targets as part of an effort to show its commitment to inclusion. The City watchdog published targets for the Women in Finance Charter, which it signed in June 2016 and announced its Black, Asian, minority ethnic (BAME) targets for 2020 and 2025. Read [...]
Closing the confidence gap for women in the City October 10, 2016 "Be more confident, speak up” was the advice a female friend received during her performance review. Later she was told she’d been “too aggressive” when challenging a point during a meeting. Perhaps she overdid it. Either way, it makes you question whether contradictory advice and male stereotypes of success could be causing confidence erosion, particularly [...]
The victims investment fraudsters are targeting are richer and savvier than you think October 10, 2016 Are you a 65-year-old man with £30,000 plus in savings? Happen to live in a metropolitan area? You're a prime target for investment fraudsters – or so says some rather in-depth profiling carried out by Canada police. According to stats from Action Fraud and Canada police 77 per cent of people [...]
WANdisco announces another boardroom shakeup as it appoints new non-exec director and interim finance SVP October 10, 2016 WANdisco's share price was up 7.4 per cent at the open after the company announced another boardroom shakeup this morning. The software developer has appointed William Grant Dollens as non-executive director. Dollens, 37, is currently managing member at Global Frontier Investments, a US-based investment manager, and portfolio manager for Global Frontier Partners, a shareholder in WANdisco. [...]
Work cited as biggest cause of stress in people’s lives October 10, 2016 Ever-increasing workloads and long hours mean more than half of employees cite work as the biggest cause of stress. The pension and benefit consultant JLT Employee Benefits found 55 per cent of 120 people surveyed thought work was the most stressful part of their life, followed by money at 19 per cent and family at 13 per cent. Just [...]
Govcoin’s co-founder Robert Kay explains why his firm is using blockchain to change the lives of benefit claimants October 10, 2016 "When you get into this technology, you can let your imagination run wild with it. But as an entrepreneur, you have to focus. You can use a new technology to help those that can pay the most for it, or those who will benefit the most from it. It is our view that distributed ledger [...]
Is it time to take your business prospecting? October 10, 2016 Before the seismic events of this summer, it was clear that we modest Brits needed to be more proactive in our pursuit of commercial opportunities overseas. British firms are trailing behind bolder European counterparts when it comes to developing relationships abroad, with recent LinkedIn data showing that less than a third (31 per cent) of UK [...]
Consumer spending bounces back in September October 10, 2016 The last of the summer sun brightened consumers’ spending habits for September, rising 2.4 per cent on an annual basis. That was the highest level seen in the past five months, according to Visa’s latest Consumer Spending Index update. August had been fairly flat, up 0.1 per cent, which was the weakest seen in nearly three [...]
The government’s creating a new pensions and debt advice service October 9, 2016 A new service will be created to advise consumers about pensions and debt as the government puts plans into action to replace the much-criticised Money Advice Service (MAS). A new body to provide people with financial guidance will be launched, combining MAS along with two pensions advice groups – the Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) and Pension [...]
Deutsche Bank and Citi use this personality test to find ‘millennial talent’ — take a look October 7, 2016 Companies as varied as Deutsche Bank, Reebok, and Airbnb are turning to Seattle startup Koru to help them recruit graduates. Koru, founded in 2013, uses machine learning and predictive analytics to predict whether candidates will be the right "fit" for a company. Applicants are made to take a 20-minute online test that measures seven personality [...]
