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Which Friends Character Earns the Most?

24th April 2018
One of the most popular American sitcoms, Friends, is enjoying a revival thanks to being made available on Netflix in January. Now a new generation of fans is laughing at the exploits of Joey, Chandler, Ross, Rachel, Monica and Phoebe as they live in downtown New York, grow into adulthood and drink a lot of coffee. Over the […]
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The Front Lines of Business: Why It’s Dangerous to Overestimate the Role of Automation

23rd April 2018
“In the future, robots will be doing our jobs for us” is one of the most common sentences we hear from futurists, business people and technology leaders. Below Richard Acreman, Partner at WM Reply, discusses the overvalue of automated processes and the future of ‘robots’ on the front lines of business. There are variations on the […]
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Biggest Banks Quit Financing Controversial Keystone XL Pipeline, Only Barclays Left

23rd April 2018
HSBC has today confirmed that it will no longer provide project finance for new tar sands projects including the construction of any tar sands pipelines. This policy would exclude HSBC from providing project financing for the Keystone XL and Line 3 Expansion pipelines. HSBC also stated that its overall exposure to tar sands will reduce […]
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How IBM Quietly Pushed Out 20,000 Older Workers

23rd April 2018
In a ProPublica feature that collected the stories of over 1,400 former IBM employees, it was estimated that a staggering 20,000 American employees ages 40 and over have been eliminated by the company. How does one of the country’s largest tech giants quietly push out this many older workers? Don’t we have laws to protect […]
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Women in Banking Sector Face a ‘Double Glass Ceiling’

20th April 2018
Women in banking face a ‘double glass ceiling’; one when being promoted to management and another when being promoted to executive roles, according to new research from the SKEMA Business School Observatory on the Feminisation of Companies. Although women make up 52% of banking sector employees globally, they average only 38% of middle managers and […]
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What Happens When a Bank and a FinTech Join Forces?

20th April 2018
FinTech companies have been the foundation of innovation in the payments and financial services sphere over the past decade, whilst legacy financial institutions, such as banks, have struggled to keep up. Generally considered in competition with one another, what would happen if FinTechs and Banks joined forces? Prabhat Vira, President of Tungsten Network Finance, explains. Recent […]
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FDI Creates 8,847 New Jobs in Financial Services

19th April 2018
2,265 FDI projects secured in 2016-17, a rise of 2%. Total FDI jobs down by -7%, falling from 115,974 to 107,898 in 2016-17. Software and Computer Services is number one for FDI, with 418 projects 2016-17. The South East, West Midlands and North West hold the highest number of FDI projects. America remains the UK’s […]
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Can Behavioural Science Help Cure the Blight on the High Street?

19th April 2018
The high street is reeling after a winter of ill health. Toys R Us, Maplin, House of Fraser, Claire’s: it seems that even stalwarts of the retail landscape aren’t immune to rising rents, the burgeoning ecommerce market and wavering consumer confidence. Below Finance Monthly gains special insight from Andrew Watts, Founding Partner, KHWS, The Brand […]
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2018 Cryptocurrency Predictions

18th April 2018
Price comparison site finder.com has released its monthly Cryptocurrency Predictions Survey on how the top 10 Cryptocurrencies by market cap and three trending coins will perform in 2018. Out of the 13 coins, finder.com’s 13 panellists predict that Dogecoin (DOGE) will experience the greatest percentage growth by December 31, 2018 (5,838 percent). DOGE was sitting at […]
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What Are Trade Tariffs and Do They Actually Work?

18th April 2018
There has been a lot of recent news regarding trade tariffs, as America and China impose a number of greater tariffs on a wide range of each other’s goods. Is this all political showboating though, or do they actually have an impact? Trade tariffs were introduced to increase the ease and competition, while decreasing the […]
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Your Thoughts: US Annual Budget Deficit $1Trillion

17th April 2018
With current trade ‘talks’ with China, the US in a not in a great position money wise. According to Congressional Budget Office the US is heading for an annual budget deficit of more than $1 trillion (£707bn) by 2020, on the back of tax cuts and higher public spending. Although these measures may bring ease […]
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Cloud Technology: Only the Beginning

17th April 2018
We all know the cloud is leading the way in transforming operations across financial organisations, but while a significant enabler, it represents just one element of much wider digital investment. We hear from Steven Boyle, CEO of Integrated Cloud Group, who discusses how cloud technology is only the beginning of true digital transformation for financial […]
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