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Cryptocurrencies, e.g. Bitcoin, have been in the news a lot, but what are they, what is the technology that drives them and what is the future for this relatively new form of exchange? This article briefly describes Cryptocurrency and the software behind it, Blockchain. What is Cryptocurrency Cryptocurrencies are digital means of exchange.
It is now almost two years on from the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy, and a year since the CSA was approved on the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers (RoATP).
The NHS “scheme pays” facility allows members, faced with a tax liability arising from breaching the annual allowance, to meet the payment from future pension benefits. This amounts to taking our a mortgage on the pension.
Having worked with many different organisations, I have some experience about the different types of culture that are operative in IFA firms and networks and larger institutions. The differences can be quite illuminating.
BHS, Carillion, Tesco, and Patisserie Valerie. Which to be clear, are all organisations where the finance director has not been found to be lying. However, they are all examples of actual or alleged financial oversight shortcomings. What do financial services firms have in common with these organisations?
Referred to as the most comprehensive reform package in the history of Basel regulation, your company will undoubtedly want to limit the disruption of Basel IV. With key changes already afoot, there are certainly opportunities to get ahead of the game.
With the FCA set to announce new guidance on identifying and supporting vulnerable customers, and uncertainty around Brexit having a yet unknown impact on the nation’s finances, 2019 is set to be a big year for vulnerability.
Well-designed and properly-enforced regulation plays a vital role in improving the way markets work for the benefit of business, employees and citizens. It helps to support sustainable growth, enhanced trade and increased investment, as well as improving social and environmental outcomes.
UK government spending on pensions and top-up benefits for pensioners amounts to 5.9 per cent of GDP – and this figure is projected to increase to 6.3 per cent over the next half century. In addition, the Government also spends another 1.
There have been two very interesting articles recently, one in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) and another in the Financial Times, about the quality of ‘management’, and how under-trained and under-valued managers are invariably behind poorly performing businesses.
I like to tease the Financial Times journalist Jo Cumbo that she can trust no-one because of her heritage! Jo is Australian and this blatantly xenophobic comment is based on a British prejudice that Australians find compulsion acceptable as compliance is in the blood.
Fitch Learning takes a closer look at International Financial Reporting Standard 9 (IFRS() and how it is reflected in the reports and accounts of banks and corporates – making suggestions about how advisers and analysts can unravel some of its complexities. What is IFRS9?
