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FEATURE-Ukrainian Refugees Find Haven at French Castle
Date: May 24, 2022
• Castle owner leads Solidarite Ukraine to help refugees • Locals offer accommodation and jobs to newcomers • Language barrier makes adapting difficult By Emma Batha TILQUES, France, May 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In a peaceful corner of northern France, Ukrainian Olympic athlete Tatyana Kolesnikova tends to a freshly planted vegetable field beside a...
Does the Commonwealth Have a Future After Queen Elizabeth?
Date: May 23, 2022
By Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) – As Queen Elizabeth celebrates her 70th year on the throne, there are questions about whether the Commonwealth of Nations, which she was instrumental in creating and remains one of her proudest achievements, has a future when her reign is over. The Commonwealth evolved out of the British empire, and...
Why Cash Will Be Around for Longer Than Some Consumers and Brands May Want
Date: May 18, 2022
By Rebecca Crook, Chief Growth Officer, Somo, a digital product agency One of the key things Covid accelerated was the move towards a cashless society. People didn’t want to handle cash so companies stopped accepting it. This has now been adopted as the norm moving forward for many restaurants, bars and even tradespeople who would...
HSBC Launches $1 Billion Lending Fund for Female Entrepreneurs
Date: May 12, 2022
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -HSBC Holdings said on Thursday it was launching a $1 billion lending fund to invest in female-owned businesses over the next 12 months. “The level of funding received over time by female-led businesses is significantly lower than male counterparts, while the recent impacts of the pandemic have seen these same businesses disproportionately affected,”...
What Advice Would You Offer to Women That Want to Enter the Finance World?
Date: May 6, 2022
Nicole Meyers, VP Strategic Account Management at Personetics In my experience, building up expertise in a specific subject matter within fintech is paramount. When you are the resident expert within an organization, business problems and deal flow organically come your way. As I’ve moved up the ladder, I’ve witnessed first-hand the disparity in...
How to Encourage More Women Into FinTech
Date: April 21, 2022
By Uma Rajah, CEO and Co-Founder, CapitalRise Women are massively underrepresented in the fintech industry, with less than 30 per cent of the UK’s fintech workforce being female (Deloitte). Education has a key role to play in encouraging more girls to take up STEM subjects at school and in further education and go on to...