Financial Markets
2 months ago
According to the latest CBI / PwC Financial Services Survey, activity in the sector rebounded strongly in the three months to March, with a robust rise in business volumes and an increase in profits.
Financial Markets
2 months ago
Research by ClusterSeven on C-level executives and senior managers working in financial services in the UK has revealed dangerously poor attitudes to business critical data managed in spreadsheets and similar databases.
Financial Markets
3 months ago
The U.K.’s financial regulator is partly to blame for not detecting efforts by banks it supervised to rig benchmark interest rates for several years, UK lawmaker Andrew Tyrie said.
Financial Markets
3 months ago
CareerVidi has now launched to recruiters, who are able to engage with the platform via Broadbean in order to attract both passive and active jobseekers in finance, professional services and technology.
Financial Markets
4 months ago
U.K. banks and other finance firms will shed another 18,000 jobs in the first quarter of 2013 after cutting 25,000 in the last quarter, according to a report by a business lobby group.
Financial Markets
4 months ago
.A new research study released today by Kinetic Partners, the global professional services firm, reveals that even though nearly half of financial services CEOs (48%) believe that senior managers should be spending between 20% to 40% of their time on risk management and compliance, nearly a third (31%) of this group admit that this standard is not being achieved.
Financial Markets
5 months ago
Financial service organisations in the UK and Ireland are showing a severe lack of confidence in their ability to retain people critical to their success. Only 40% believe they are effective at retaining high value individuals* with specialist skills and only 50% say they’re effective at retaining future leaders. This is in spite of the fact that most invest in development programmes for their key people.
Financial Markets
7 months ago
The markets are crowing about jobs growth Friday, and for good reason in financial services: The sector added 13,000 jobs in September — the largest monthly gain since March.
Financial Markets
8 months ago
The Z / Yen Group has published the twelfth Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI 12), sponsored by the Qatar Financial Centre Authority and covering 77 financial centres.
Financial Markets
2 years ago
Few financial services companies have the formal, rigorous and tested project management processes in place to meet their project goals consistently, according to new research from the Economist Intelligence Unit.