New financial technology offering sees industry heavyweights unite
A new venture aimed at “re-shaping” the mortgage sector has brought together a team with experience including roles at Santander, Experian, Morgan Stanley and Thomas Cook.
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Big names including two English football clubs shamed in minimum wage offenders list
By 2020, 3.8m Brits will be on the legal minimum wage rate – and the government has relied largely on HMRC to levy fines of up to £20,000 per worker on companies that don’t pay staff fairly. It also started “naming and shaming” offenders in the hope of deterring others from doing the same.
Uber’s unhappy with TfL plans for English exams – and is asking users to help stop it
If it weren’t for the then London mayor Boris Johnson, taxis would have more stringent rules – he dropped the most rigorous propositions TfL came to him with. One of the approved amendments was that anyone from a non-English-speaking country looking to become a cabbie would have to pass an English exam.
Mental health is biggest threat to staff so help do something about it
It’s been suggested that UK companies are less competitive due to a culture of silence around mental health in the workplace – and the time is now for business leaders to show the way in encouraging conversation around the issue.
David Haye provides recruitment app a fighting chance with 2.65m seed round
Heavyweight boxer David Haye has used his platform to champion British business, contributing to a £2.65m seed investment round for recruitment app Syft alongside David Cameron’s former enterprise advisor Lord Young.
Does Uber defeat by Chinese rival Didi spell trouble for the taxi firm
After years of attempting to dominate the Chinese market by batting away the nation’s biggest taxi firm with a stick, Uber has decided to end the costly struggle by selling its operations in the Eastern Asia nation.
Yet again, the importance of securing data at source has been made obvious thanks to O2
The revelation that O2 customer data is now for sale on the dark web has brought the issue of mandatory data breach reporting firmly back into the spotlight – as well as the importance of setting secure defences.
Financial decision makers in the SME space are convinced fraud has damaged revenue
Research from Bottomline Technologies into the UK business payments landscape found that 53 per cent of SMEs have been impacted by financial fraud.
Over half of global business leaders are open to a robotic future
The results of a global survey of business leaders, undertaken to establish the sentiment surrounding robotics, tells a slightly different story in terms of the business perceptions surrounding automation and how open they are to embracing the technology.
Philip Hammond visits China to promote Britain as attractive for international investment
George Osborne replacement Philip Hammond is currently on an overseas assignment in China, which will see him encourage business and investment ties between the country and Britain.