Finance
Cash and short-term allocation to bank deposits drop to the lowest in four...
Forty-seven percent of organisations’ cash and short-term allocation are maintained in bank deposits, according to the 2023 Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) Liquidity Survey, underwritten by...
One in three finance and accounting professionals admit B2B procurement is...
Zip has announced the results of the 2023 Trends in B2B Purchasing survey of 1,056 US-based finance and accounting professionals – director-level and above. Respondents are overwhelmingly eager to move the procurement process...
Reinforcing trusted advisor status through technology...
Technology can play a leading role for accountants looking to strengthen their tax guidance with regards to Research and Development (R&D) Tax Claims. Mike Dean, Managing Director of WhisperClaims, explains how...
Nearly half of UK businesses missed a 2022 financial target amid economic...
As the economic downturn becomes more severe and a recession looms, inaccurate financial projections will put businesses at risk more than ever. A new survey conducted by Gong, a leading revenue intelligence platform,...
What is working capital? Here’s everything you need to know
Whether you’re struggling to grow your business or take advantage of bigger projects, working capital can help. Working capital supports your daily running costs, funds larger projects and can help you remain afloat d...
Increasing demand for payroll in the cloud fuels continued growth across EMEA...
Workday, a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, has announced plans to deliver Workday Payroll for Australia and Workday Payroll for Germany. Workday Payroll for...
European mid-market private equity returns accelerate to 16.9% to the end of...
Invest Europe, an association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors, as well as their investors, has released Mid-Market Private Equity: Europe’s Engine for Growth, the 2024 edi...
Novuna Business Finance provides £10 million facility to Aura Power
Novuna Business Finance has provided £10 million of funding to support Aura Power, a leading global developer of renewable energy projects, to progress its development pipeline of utility-scale solar PV and battery ...
ContactMonkey secures US$55 million in Series A funding to transform employee...
ContactMonkey, an internal email communications platform, completed a Series A investment of US$55 million from Updata Partners, a leading growth equity firm. The funding comes as employee engagement is more critical to en...
Swansea University acquires funding to develop VR training
A high-tech Swansea University initiative to develop specialist virtual reality training for healthcare professionals has secured a major funding boost. The project, entitled Virtual Reality a Welsh Reality, has...
Tight hiring market sees start-ups channel investment funding toward tech...
More than half (54%) of start-up businesses who have secured PE or VC funding in the past 12 months invested capital in recruitment – up from 37%of those who received their latest funding round between three and five years a...
Hermes pledges £200k to support SMEs using its apprenticeship levy funding
Hermes, one of the UK’s leading consumer delivery companies, has pledged over £200,000 of its apprenticeship levy funds to help support SMEs – the maximum amount it can in a year, under the government sche...
HSBC launches global wealth trading platform in the UAE
HSBC has announced the launch of WorldTrader in the UAE, a digital trading platform providing customers with access to a wide range of investments internationally. WorldTrader...
Mastercard commits to reaching 100% e-commerce tokenisation by 2030 in Europe
Mastercard has announced its vision for 100% e-commerce tokenisation in Europe by the end of the decade. This supports a global commitment to phase out manual card entry and make e-commerce safer and more accessible...
Creating better payment experiences for business communities
The MENA region’s digital economy has moved from strength to strength in recent years and vast opportunities have opened for merchants while also raising the bar of what is expected from them. Contactless payments h...
Kushki becomes the first regional, next-generation payment acquirer in Latin...
Kushki, a payments technology company that connects Latin America through payments, announced it has become the first next-generation merchant acquirer in the region. This includes primary membership with Visa and...
noqodi expands collaboration with Network International to broaden its...
A leading fintech company, noqodi, has broadened its collaboration with Network International (Network), a leading enabler of digital commerce across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, enabling the company to...
Chainalysis research finds cryptocurrency crime down 65% year-to-date
The outlook of global crypto markets, which have been recovering well this year with the prices of digital assets like Bitcoin up over 80% at the midyear point, has been infused with further positivity following the...
Did the EU betray its green agenda with a scaled-back version of the CSDDD?
The CSDDD represented a major change in the way businesses could operate in the EU, with a focus on sustainability in a company’s operations and throughout the supply chain. But Naomi Grossman, Learning and Content M...
Six steps to ensure compliance in a work anywhere world
Working from anywhere is here to stay, despite calls for a full return to the office. Employees have experienced the flexibility of remote working and don’t want to lose it. In the world of finance, leaders are under e...
New research exposes blind spot in business strategy as legal risks loom...
Fifty-seven percent of business leaders see legal disputes as a price worth paying to get ahead of the competition, according to new research from leading international law firm, Allen & Overy. Yet, just one in...
China and US vie for dominance in top 50 companies for trademark filing in...
Trademark and brand protection technology business, Corsearch, has revealed that China and the US dominate the list of the top 50 companies for trademark filing in 2022, with data from the Corsearch Trademark Industry...
Five years of GDPR: data regulation in an ever-changing world
This year, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) celebrated its fifth birthday. Its introduction back in 2018 caused a huge shift in business practices around data and forced organisations to make data...
US and Kenya conclude opening round under the US-Kenya Strategic Trade and...
The United States and Kenya concluded a week of productive meetings on the US-Kenya Strategic Trade and Investment Partnership (STIP). During the meetings last month, the two sides exchanged views on the key concepts...
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