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New Data Confirms That HMRC’s Approach to IR35 Is Hampering Growth for the UK Financial Sector
Date: April 14, 2022
50% of businesses reported that IR35, the UK’s anti-avoidance tax legislation, was the biggest obstacle to hiring contractors over the past 12 months More than 70% of businesses and recruiters have seen a drop in their limited company PSC contractors since the IR35 reform Half of contractors in the UK have considered closing their businesses,...
Post Pandemic Remuneration: Champagne Problems?
Date: April 12, 2022
By Hannah Ford, Employment Partner and Tom O’Dell, Trainee Solicitor at law firm Stevens & Bolton With the 2022 bonus season in full swing, the pressure on businesses to wow their rockstar performers with “the number” has never been greater. When it comes to performance driven pay, the finance and banking sector has of course...
Protecting the Financial Sector With Deterministic Protection
Date: April 4, 2022
The expanding threat-landscape is pushing leaders to re-think their approach to cybersecurity By Satya Gupta, CTO at Virsec With increasing connectivity and the continuous, on-going digital transformation, attackers are finding new ways to completely bypass most solutions. Their methods are increasing in sophistication, resulting in a higher success rate. This becomes particularly dangerous with regards...
Spain’s Jobs Market Improves as Reforms Help Offset Strike, Inflation
Date: April 4, 2022
By Belén Carreño (Reuters) – Spain’s labour market withstood soaring inflation and a crippling truckers’ strike in March to see a drop in unemployment, data showed on Monday, helped in part by reforms aimed at cutting the use of temporary contracts. The number of people registering as jobless in Spain slipped 0.09% in March from...
ECB Climate Stress Test Is Just the Beginning for Europe’s Financial Sector
Date: March 28, 2022
By Jan Polách, Strategist at Cervest, the Climate Intelligence company working to put climate at the core of every decision. Launched earlier this year, the European Central Bank’s (ECB) Climate Risk Stress Test (CST), is designed to find out how prepared European banks are for the economic impacts of climate change. This important test, which...
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth Hopes to Attend Memorial Service for Late Husband Philip
Date: March 24, 2022
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth hopes to attend a memorial service next week for her late husband Prince Philip, a palace source said on Thursday, after the 95-year-old monarch cancelled a public appearance earlier this month. The queen’s health has been in focus since she spent a night in hospital last October for an...