Given our fear of being liable, one could be forgiven for thinking that a contract needed to be stuffed with legalese and constructed by a lawyer to be considered legal. However, that is simply not the case. There is no requirement for a contract to be overly complicated. In fact, the less ambiguous the better.
Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) is set to be the most significant change to how people pay for things, not only online but also for card-present retailers across Europe. Even though the rules on SCA officially commenced on 14 September 2019, retailers have been granted additional time with the deadline being pushed back further, this time to March 2022. This is now the third time the deadline for retailer compliance has been pushed back, which raises the question, will SCA ever really take off?
The Global Financial Crisis which began in 2007 is still with us, and we are moving on to a new stage - inflation. UK Inflation has risen to 2.5% raising the prospect of a letter from the Bank of England explaining why. The headline US CPI data was even stronger 5.4% year-on-year, and 0.9% in June. Inflation matters. It is critical to bonds and long-term returns. Financial commentary is awash with analysis of how the Fed, BoE and ECB will all hold off from any hint of “taper” response to inflation in order to keep markets from collapsing.
Aspida Group was formed from the merger of Active & Optimus Group and has been providing business support services across a range of jurisdictions since 2002.
The UK’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has recently published a white paper recommending changes to the rules around the way auditors report to the public. If implemented, the changes would place a greater focus on auditors to not only check clients’ accounts but also offer greater insight into a company’s financial risk and resilience. With the audit profession currently facing a talent shortage, the proposed reforms could present an opportunity to make this career path more attractive to new entrants, predicts James Hadfield, audit partner at accountancy firm Menzies LLP.
To hear about how to create a purposeful culture and the struggles diverse leaders tend to face in the workplace, we caught up with Stephanie Laplante - an executive coach and trusted adviser to high-performance leaders who leverage coaching to unlock their untapped potential and help them achieve their ambitions. Her company The Leadership Space provides individual, group, and team coaching to unlock potential and drive business performance.
Piah Lang Yeo is a Gallup certified coach at Strengths Insights. She is a senior Finance Leader who has used CliftonStrengths® to navigate her career. With a portfolio comprising global and regional roles, she has a strong appreciation of what constitutes success in a corporate world and connects well when there is cultural diversity. As a practitioner of CliftonStrengths® program, Piah Lang helps individuals apply their strengths successfully in a practical way. We speak with her about the most important takeaways from the pandemic below.
For an insight into the benefits of having an executive coach, we speak with Jill Williams, the founder and president of 2StepExec - a strengths-based executive coaching firm based out of Austin, TX focused on delivering leadership and sustainable performance solutions for high-achieving leaders.
Clifton Carmody, PCC is the Founder and Principal of MNDFL LDR - a three-year-old international boutique executive coaching firm specialising in developing conscious leaders. Clifton, and the other ICF-certified coaches at his firm, work with leaders who attain goals more effectively, living a higher quality of life by showing up fully present and intentionally.
The word cryptocurrency elicits ideas of deceitful characters stealing real-life money and turning it into monopoly money somewhere deep in the dark web. But what is it actually? And how should it be dealt with in an insolvent estate? Rob Armstrong and Jen Harrison answer these questions below.
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