Cultural shifts and word-of-mouth changes UK funeral landscape
The funeral industry in the UK had changed little in decades, yet in just the last six years direct cremation has fundamentally..
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Firms turning to flexible workforce as skills worsen: but labour market not fit for purpose
Following reports from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) that the unemployment level had dropped below vacancy numbers for the ..
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Companies Have Gained Access To Asset Data, But Aren’t Using It Effectively
By: Mark Wilding is Vice President of Global Customer Transformation at ServiceMax. Lack of proficiency in asset data analytics..
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HALF OF YOUNG BRITS CLAIM THEY ARE STUCK IN DEAD-END JOBS AND DREAM OF BEING THEIR OWN BOSS ACCORDING TO A NEW STUDY
If you hate your job, you’re not alone as new research has discovered that almost half of young Brits (45 percent) feel trapped in a j..
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Third of employees feel more powerful post-pandemic
With pandemic-driven remote working helping to accelerate change in the way businesses operate, UK employers are now being forced to o..
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More than a third of hiring managers unprepared for Digital Identity
More than a third (40%) of hiring managers feel unprepared for digital Right to Work (RTW) screening, despite the Home Office introduc..
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ALQUITY AND SPOUTING ROCK ASSET MANAGEMENT JOIN FORCES TO LAUNCH NEW PLATFORM TO ACCELERATE ADOPTION OF ESG INVESTING IN U.S.
ALQUITY AND SPOUTING ROCK ASSET MANAGEMENT JOIN FORCES TO LAUNCH NEW PLATFORM TO ACCELERATE ADOPTION OF ESG INVESTING IN U.S.
∙ Alquity, the leading responsible investment manager and Spouting Rock Asset Management form strategic partnership ∙ Investors can..
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Aqueous Digital’s youngest employee on shortlist for Halton Business Award
Teenage apprentice, Katie Marsden is a finalist in the Young Achiever of the Year category. A teenager’s initiative and positive atti..
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AMS named Leader in Everest Group RPO PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2022 for twelfth time
Global provider of talent outsourcing and advisory services, AMS (formerly Alexander Mann Solutions), has retained its position as a L..
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BT aims for £25m in savings by leaping towards AI-led operations with ServiceNow
BT’s Digital unit is working to modernise the Group’s service management with the delivery of a unified service management plat..
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Sectigo Announces Four Leaders Named to CRN’s 2022 Women of the Channel and Women of the Channel Power 100 Lists
Jennifer Binet, Kysha Weeks, Jennifer Cohen, and Samantha Nelson Named as Top Women in the Industry for Dedication to Sectigo’s Partne..
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AMS welcomes senior hire to build further growth momentum in APAC
Global provider of talent outsourcing and advisory services, AMS (formerly Alexander Mann Solutions), has welcomed a senior hire to it..
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TECH RECYCLING FIRM ANNOUNCES EIGHT FIGURE INVESTMENT TO CREATE A £25M IT ASSET DISPOSAL MARKET LEADER
Tier 1, the leading UK circular economy technology company, has announced an eight-figure investment in IT asset disposal business EOL..
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Appian Awarded $2.036 Billion in Damages Against Pegasystems Inc.
Appian receives verdict from Fairfax County, Virginia jury holding Pegasystems liable for trade secret misappropriation and vio..
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Victoriametrics’ Opensource Monitoring Reigns Supreme As User Base Tops 50 Million
Open source scale-up founded by former Google and Cloudflare engineers sees massive growth as organisations flock towards high-..
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How Are Immigration Laws Changing in a Post-Pandemic and Post-Brexit Nation?
In recent months, the government has introduced changes to the Right to Work check. As of 6April 2022, employers must check an employ..
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Trinity Business School to become net carbon neutral by 2030 with new strategy
Trinity Business School has unveiled its new strategy, formally committing to the mission of ‘transforming business for good’ and beco..
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Lightware Highlights Full Line of Collaboration and Connectivity Solutions at ISE 2022
Budapest, Hungary, 26April 2022 –Lightware Visual Engineering is highlighting its full line of AV-over-IP, networking and collaboratio..
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Volkswagen sticks to outlook as size offset supply chain woes
By Christoph Steitz and Jan Schwartz FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Volkswagen, Europe’s top carmaker, on Wednesday stuck to its outlook f..
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Penfold’s workplace pension launches to 100 UK businesses
Penfold, the digital pensions platform, today announces the launch of its workplace pension and has already signed over 100 UK busines..
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Oneday, the platform that helps entrepreneurs turn their passion into business, announces £2.5M seed funding
LONDON, 27th April 2022 – Oneday, a new EdTech platform helping aspiring entrepreneurs turn their passion into a business throu..
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Talking in the third person will make your crowdfunding campaign more successful
Talking in the third person will make your crowdfunding campaign more successful Using third-person language makes crowdfundin..
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Shell tightens restrictions on Russian oil buying
By Ron Bousso and Rowena Edwards (Reuters) -Shell on Wednesday tightened its restrictions on buying Russian oil, saying it would no lo..
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Boeing shares plunge on fresh 777X setbacks, array of charges
By Eric M. Johnson and Abhijith Ganapavaram (Reuters) -Boeing Co said on Wednesday it was halting 777X production through 2023 due to ..
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March 2022 insolvency statistics – Bleak outlook for companies as true impact of pandemic hits, whilst cost of living crisis continues rise in personal insolvencies
Margaret Carter, Restructuring & Insolvency (R&I) Director, and Louise Brittain, R&I Partner at Azets, the UK’s lar..
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TRUST REGISTRATION SERVICE EXPANSION COULD AFFECT THOUSANDS, WARNS EXPERT
THE TRUST Registration Service (TRS) was set up in 2017 as part of an anti-money laundering directive. Until relatively recently, the ..
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Iveco supply issues to peak this quarter after weighing down Q1
MILAN (Reuters) -Italy’s Iveco Group said on Tuesday supply chain disruptions would peak in the second quarter, after they preve..
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GE shares slump as supply chain, inflationary woes threaten profit outlook
By Rajesh Kumar Singh and Abhijith Ganapavaram (Reuters) – General Electric Co on Tuesday said fresh COVID-19-related lockdowns ..
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Secure I.T. Environments Delivers Multi-Data Centre Project for UK Investment and Wealth Management Firm
Two projects completed, consisting of a data centre relocation and upgrade in just six weeks, followed by a disaster recover da..
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Why You Should Be Letting Your Assets Help With Decision Making
Why You Should Be Letting Your Assets Help With Decision Making
It shouldn’t take a conflict in Ukraine to make organisations realise the fragility of trade. We’ve already had a taste of it with Covid and fo..
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TWO NEW APPOINTMENTS BOLSTER NELSONS’ CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE DEPARTMENT
LEADING law firm Nelsons has welcomed a new partner and associate to its expert clinical negligence team based in its Nottingha..
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BLEND NETWORK SECURES £120M COMMITTED CAPITAL FROM A CONSORTIUM OF LARGE FAMILY OFFICES TO DEPLOY IN THE UK HOUSING MARKET
Funding lines come three months after Blend closed an equity funding round to scale the business Blend intends to significantly step u..
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Lightware and NETGEAR Deliver New Solutions for the Future of Hybrid Pro AV/IT Environments
Budapest, Hungary, 12 April 2022 – Lightware Visual Engineering and NETGEAR are streamlining the process of merging traditional pro AV..
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Barclays-backed Anthemis invests in regulated Future Earnings Agreement assets in world-first deal
London, 7th April 2022 – StepEx, an FCA-regulated fintech that provides the infrastructure for universities, business schools, a..
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Hedge funds face “perfect storm” of increased margin requirements according to Acuiti report
London – 6 April 2022: Hedge funds risk being caught in Phase 6 of the Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR) without adequate preparation owing..
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SAP Fioneer acquires majority stake in okadis Consulting
Acquisition built on a successful existing partnership Demonstrates SAP Fioneer’s commitment to innovation in financial servic..
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US Investment fund Second Century Ventures Selects 11 Companies for its UK Scale-Up Program REACH UK 2022
The drive to address the real estate industry’s biggest challenges through technology has increased the number of PropTec..
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