The recent furore around not only the free-fall of the Asian stock markets but also the continued drop in oil prices has prompted concerns about another global recession. Alongside changes in the structure of the UK Foreign Exchange market, bosses need to revise their recruitment strategies.
With growth on its mind, international payments firm World First hired its first CFO, appointing an ICAEW mentor to assist the company in its expansion. As such, we talked to Alexander Filshie about avoiding the common pitfalls in the pursuit to growth, as well as what changes CFOs now face.
Challenger bank Mondo, which is mobile-first by design, is in the midst of a £6m hybrid investment round and wants customers to become investors by contributing £1m through equity crowdfunding service Crowdcube.
Indeed, running a startup business is pretty enjoyable, but unless you turn this into a real business then let’s be honest, it won’t last very long. But how can you make your venture a real business We conducted a handful of interviews to find out how successful companies climbed the ladder and transformed by managing finances.
With the surge of service outages from large banks, challengers such as Metro and Virgin Money – some offering more appealing rates of interest and few weighed down with the same unwieldy and dated IT – are providing the British public with compelling alternatives to larger counterparts.
Having just taken up the CFO role at technology Anaplan, a business which has just banked $90m of venture capital investment, James Budge answers a few of our questions on building a fast-growth company and how being cloud-based is unique.
Some $1.1bn was invested in tech ventures through equity crowdfunding platforms in 2015, a trend which is set to spike sevenfold to $8.2bn by 2020 – and it is Britain which is responsible for the surge of interest in the funding method.
Peer-to-peer finance business Lending Works demonstrated significant growth milestones in 2015, showcasing how powerful the P2P platform has become as the number of loans via the platform rose fourfold.
The number of civil servants being recommended for New Year’s honours has almost doubled over the past two years, with several members of the financial sector fitting the bill. However, HMRC chief executive Lin Homer’s appointment to damehood has been seen as a controversial move.
Sustainability is one of the world’s most important goals; but what groups can really make environmental progress in leaps and bounds Sustainable investment champion Chris McKnett makes the case that it’s large institutional investors.
