Written by Pat Crawford Today Hadlow is one of the UK’s leading land-based colleges, yet less than fifteen years ago it was ‘failing’ and threatened with closure - at best, amalgamation. The Turnaround that followed was massive, innovative and comprehensive and contained elements that have since been used as a blueprint by other institutions. At […]
Kicking off April’s Expert Insight section is an interview with Luigi Wewege - the Chief Executive Officer of Vivier - a multinational financial group of companies, providing its services worldwide through representation in jurisdictions across Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe and South America. Outside of this, Luigi serves as the Non-executive Chairman of Nikau Global - […]
As the payments industry whips itself into a frenzy around bitcoin, RegTech, and FinTech, the ‘good old reliable cheque’ is given an important new lease of life that the Government and the cheque clearing industry have been promising us for many years. In our April edition, Finance Monthly speaks to Nathan Wain, Director at Solchar […]
The next Thought Leader that we reached out this months is Tim van Delden, the co –founder and CIO at Amsterdam-based independent private equity firm- HPE Growth Capital. Despite his university background as Mechanical Engineer, Tim’s career began in investment banking at Morgan Stanley in London and Frankfurt. His investment banking experience was then […]
By Richard Asquith, VP Global Indirect Tax, Avalara With the UK Prime Minister’s surprise decision to call a UK-wide general election in six weeks’ time, this could serve to quell the hurricane of ongoing political and economic uncertainty that has continued to leave markets, businesses and the establishment in its wake since the UK’s shock […]
Your company made the obvious move and migrated to the cloud – Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. Months later, the attractive glow of the move from CapEx to OpEx spend has been dimmed by the reality of increasing monthly cloud bills. As the CFO, you want to know what’s up. This […]
Established in 1988, Target Professional Services is a UK-based company providing Data Cleansing and Verification solutions to the financial sector. Target verifies that common data is accurate, complete and up-to-date. Where records are found to be out-of-date, Target are able to accurately trace and verify the data to ensure records held are always compliant with […]
Next up we spoke to David Bily who introduces us to Vantage FX - an Australian regulated forex broker, providing traders of all asset classes’ access to global markets. As Vantage FX are an ECN broker and not a market maker, the company’s traders experience lightning fast trade execution and some of the tightest interbank […]
Paul Puxty originally trained as a Chartered Accountant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, working in their audit function. After 12 years with PwC, gaining varied work experiences, including a two-year spell in Melbourne, Australia, he was looking for his first role in “industry”, which resulted in joining Neopost as Financial Controller in 2001. After 5 years in that […]
Recently, Synergia together with the management team acquired The Human Network Group from its founders. The Human Network Group employs 350 top professionals in 15 specialized companies in a number of different domains (IT, Business, HR & Learning). These professionals support their customers with specialist consultancy and capacity issues. Leo Schenk, CEO of Synergia commented: "Over the past […]
Kunj Vaidya has been recently given the responsibility for Price Waterhouse & Co.’s transfer pricing practice. Prior to taking over this mantle, he had been involved in setting up and establishing transfer pricing practices in Chennai and Sri Lanka, where PWC is now established as a market leader. Kunj has practiced transfer pricing in the USA, […]
Portuguese pharmaceutical firm BIAL has agreed to sell its allergic immunotherapy business to German company Roxall. Known as BIAL Aristegui, the business is dedicated to the development, production and commercialization of anti-allergic vaccines and diagnostic tests. The acquired operation includes commercial areas focussed on allergology in Spain, Portugal and Italy, which represented 7% of BIAL's […]
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