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Why Today's Challenger Banks Need to Abandon the Traditional Approach to Data Recovery

22nd August 2019
TSB’s spate of outages over the past year caused damage that extended far beyond the IT team, affecting every part of the company and its wider reputation.
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Is a Hustle & Grind Culture Hurting Your Employees?

22nd August 2019
Recent research from Salesforce, found that a massive 70% of people in the Financial Sector have a hustle and grind culture that they find unhealthy. Yet, the sector is overall more likely to work through holidays than any other industry. 
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The Top 5 Tips to Find Your Dream Job

21st August 2019
If you have a careful eye for detail, a mathematical brain and a methodical approach to work, a job in finance could be a good fit. Whilst a degree in economics or business is preferred for some roles, many financial institutions encourage applicants from all backgrounds and with a range of degrees. Some institutions even offer applicants the chance to actually gain a qualification whilst on the job.
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What Needs to Change to Tackle the Gender Pay Gap in the Finance Industry

21st August 2019
After the construction industry, the financial and insurance sector has the worst gender pay gap in the UK, with women being paid less than men to do the same job. This needs to change, and it needs to change fast!
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Forget Cyberattacks, Simple IT Outages Could be Your Downfall

21st August 2019
The financial sector is, and has been for years, a prime target for cybercriminals due to the vast funds and customer information they hold, making them more vulnerable than any other industry. Whilst the prominence of this threat is evident, there is however another far more common and equally dangerous scenario able to cause as much damage to your business as the dreaded ransomware attack. A general IT outage or failure can just as quickly take all systems offline, rendering the whole organisation unable to operate. For example, whilst cyberattacks tend to take over all the headlines, they had nothing to do with the outage at Visa which saw five million transactions fail. Nor were they the cause of the week-long chaos suffered by thousands of TSB customers in 2018. In fact, according to figures published by the FCA, security was responsible for just 119 of 646 operational incidents at financial firms over the course of one year.
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FinTech Partnerships: Stop, Collaborate & Listen

21st August 2019
In 2019 collaboration has finally caught the attention of the financial services industry as competition is intensifying, and tech giants such as Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon are all taking steps to break into the financial sector.
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How a Sustainability Strategy Can Distinguish Your Business from the Competition

21st August 2019
In the sea of companies that exist in every sector today, being noticed is a difficult task. When searching through companies’ websites you see much of the same: a vast ocean featuring the same terminology, the same people and the same qualifications. Every company you sail past has glowing testimonials and is boasting the latest award no one’s ever heard of.
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Emerging Markets: The Next Generation

21st August 2019
When it comes to emerging markets (EM), there is a considerable level of diversity. The EM landscape has evolved significantly over the last few decades, presenting a wider range of investment opportunities across world markets. While some countries are still in the early stages of industrial and infrastructural development, others are much more adapted to the most advanced technology and greatly integrated into global supply chains and the global economy. Many countries are recognised for their sound macroeconomic policies while others are suffering from significant instability both economically and politically.
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What Europe Can Learn about Open Banking from the UK

21st August 2019
It’s hard to believe we are 20 months into the finance revolution that is Open Banking in the UK.
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Apex Temple Court Hotel – The City Hotel for Light Sleepers

21st August 2019
London is one of these cities that quite literally never sleep. Staying in central London is often accompanied by a symphony of beeping horns, car alarms and emergency vehicle sirens and finding a hotel with a good location which will also allow you to have a good night sleep could be a challenging task, especially when you’re travelling for work. However, we have found the right hotel for all of you light sleepers out there.
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Traditional Banking is Failing UK SMEs

21st August 2019
Reece Mennie, the CEO of the UK’s fastest-growing investment introducing firm – Hunter Jones, is looking at how and why traditional banking is failing British SMEs.
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How Financial Services Reap Rewards from Big Data

21st August 2019
Financial services companies are collecting more data than ever before, and this has always been a very data-intensive industry. This proliferation of data is transforming the way financial services companies operate and compete. To put this in perspective, it has been reported that in just the past few years, 90% of the data in the world has been created.
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