If there was ever a sign the banking industry is still failing to operate a credible business model, it came in the form of a KPMG report which stated that Britain’s largest banks have paid 60 per cent of their profits, since 2011, in fines and repayments to customers.
After much speculation, predictions and comment, George Osborne has delivered his last Budget before the May election. But for all the fanfare of ISAs and reducing the deficit, there was a worrying lack of talk around education and youth unemployment. Is there a sustained and long-term plan for the next generation
Digital business in the UK capital is booming, according to figures from Boris Johnson’s promotional company London & Partners, which found investments in the London technology industry have hit a record high in Q1 2015.
The Supper Club founder Duncan Cheatle argues that although the plethora of new businesses that have been created by Britain’s entrepreneurial culture, it will all mean very little if a portion of those companies do not scale-up to the next level.
By Emma Hamnett
In the long anticipated decision of Lock vs British Gas Trading the Leicester Employment Tribunal has held that the Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR) can be interpreted to provide that workers should receive normal remuneration during periods of annual leave. This includes commission or similar payments
As the last few episodes of the popular television show Mad Men are set to start airing later this week, viewers have been treated to an inside look at the height of print advertising in the 1960’s. The lessons to be learnt are vast.
Parliament has officially been dissolved and with only two months to go before the general election, political rhetoric is heating up. In an attempt to establish policy differentiation, all parties have articulated potential legislative change for various sectors.
Google is not afraid to lure in top executive talent, as was shown by the hefty $70m the company paid Morgan Stanley’s CFO Ruth Porat – enticing her to defect from her job in New York. Keen to secure “Wall Street’s most powerful woman” the company offered Porat stock valued at $25m. But what is the company’s true intentions
Berlin, with its large and flourishing creative pool, attracting musicians, artists and young professionals from all over the world, could soon take over London as Europe’s startup capital.
From cigar-butt investing in the 1960s, to buying wonderful businesses at fair prices rather than buying fair businesses for wonderful prices, Warren Buffett has capped half a century of famously-successful wheeling and dealing by having a look back in a letter to shareholders.
