What does the future hold for M&A in 2021?

There’s no denying that COVID-19 threw cash its biggest challenge yet. Never before has the industry seen a dramatic shift away from cash to digital payment options. Contactless and mobile payments were deemed saviours of the pandemic,…

Card payments only’. ‘Contactless preferred’. ‘No cash accepted’. These phrases will be familiar to anyone who has ventured out to the shops since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. While businesses have embraced big change in an effort…

Sustainability has never been so important for businesses. Reduced consumer demands and limited transportation in 2020 have created an increasing public awareness of the dangers of climate change and other pollution. Companies are now…

Mergers and acquisitions are firmly back on the agenda. The COVID pandemic caused widespread uncertainty, but with positive news about a vaccine becoming widely available in 2021 and now that the US presidential election is over, the way is…

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With the ever-rising share of passive investors on the market, we’ve seen a clear trend. The correlation between individual stocks has increased dramatically. For investors, this means that the stakes for being in the right sectors are…

As the year 2020 draws to a close and with it, a nervous global economy due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, one of the more positive outcomes that emerged from a turbulent financial year was that the 2020 IPO season was deemed to be a very…

Bill Blain evaluates the aftermath of the US election and the impact it will have on investment.

Finance leaders and their peers in small-to-mid-size businesses often aren’t in lockstep on matters of money.