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KPMG in the UK and Quantexa Collaborate to Deliver Contextual Decision Intelligence Solutions

KPMG in the UK and Quantexa Collaborate to Deliver Contextual Decision Intelligence Solutions

Helping organisations defend against fraud, money laundering, and illicit finance London, 21 Oct, 2021 – Quantexa, the data and analytics software com..

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Zivver Listed as a Representative Vendor in 2021 Gartner® Market Guide for Email Security

Zivver Listed as a Representative Vendor in 2021 Gartner® Market Guide for Email Security

AMSTERDAM, NL, LONDON, UK and BERLIN, GER – Zivver, a leader in secure communication solutions, announced today that it has been identified as a Repre..

Finance

Implants, AI and the no-cash generation – will payments in 2030 be a dystopia or a utopia?

Implants, AI and the no-cash generation – will payments in 2030 be a dystopia or a utopia?

New industry study explores the future of payments – from embedding ethics into transactions, to whether machine learning will make financial educatio..

Brand New Podcast, How To Be A Dad, Coming To Every Major Streaming Service

Brand New Podcast, How To Be A Dad, Coming To Every Major Streaming Service

‘How To Be A Dad’ is a new Dadsnet original podcast, coming to every major streaming service. ‘How to’ books are now a thing of the pa..

China-Africa relationship at its strongest, says new report ahead of 8th Forum on China Africa Coopera-tion

China-Africa relationship at its strongest, says new report ahead of 8th Forum on China Africa Coopera-tion

China’s ever-growing engagement in Africa has been examined in a new report from China Foresight at LSE IDEAS, The London School of Ec..

U.S. CDC signs off on Moderna, J&J COVID-19 vaccine boosters, mix-and-match shots

U.S. CDC signs off on Moderna, J&J COVID-19 vaccine boosters, mix-and-match shots

By Manas Mishra and Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday recommen..

Duran Duran drop new album 40 years after debut

Duran Duran drop new album 40 years after debut

By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) – When British pop band Duran Duran made their debut, they did not know how long they would la..

Card spending in UK falls below pre-COVID average – ONS

Card spending in UK falls below pre-COVID average – ONS

LONDON (Reuters) – Spending on credit and debit cards in Britain fell last week to 97% of its pre-pandemic average in February 2..

Norway’s DNB announces dividend after posting record Q3 earnings

Norway’s DNB announces dividend after posting record Q3 earnings

By Victoria Klesty and Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) – Norway’s largest bank DNB reported its best ever third-quarter earn..

Marketing Agency helps disabled charity achieve dream of racing at Silverstone

Marketing Agency helps disabled charity achieve dream of racing at Silverstone

North west based Digital Marketing Agency, Aqueous Digital has helped charity Speed of Sight provide a once in a lifetime experience f..

Poll reveals significant decline in applications com-pared to pre-pandemic levels

Poll reveals significant decline in applications com-pared to pre-pandemic levels

As vacancy numbers continue to rise, new data from online talent sourcing specialist, Talent.com, has shown that a majority of employe..

Wilful agency launches with climate innovation focus

Wilful agency launches with climate innovation focus

Communications taskforce to support low carbon, regenerative economy 19 October 2021, London: Wilful is a new agency that works at th..

Tomorrow’s plastics: Patent data reveals companies in consumer goods industry with high rate of innovation in bioplastics

Tomorrow’s plastics: Patent data reveals companies in consumer goods industry with high rate of innovation in bioplastics

• European Patent Office (EPO) study shows that Europe and US together account for 60% of patenting activity worldwide related to plas..

Second phase of IONOS data centre completed  with opening planned for 2022

Second phase of IONOS data centre completed  with opening planned for 2022

The second phase of the data centre being built for IONOS, Europe’s largest cloud hosting services provider, has been completed, with ..

Business sales drop 2% when local average temperature increases by 1°C, says new report

Business sales drop 2% when local average temperature increases by 1°C, says new report

A 1°C increase in average daily temperatures in the US is linked to a reduction in company sales of around 2%, according to research f..

Asset Data Remains Largely Untapped For Driving Revenue Growth

Asset Data Remains Largely Untapped For Driving Revenue Growth

New study finds asset equipment data is key to bridging the gap between sales and service LONDON, UK – October 19, 2021 – Valuable da..

Clearing Out Your Garage – Benefiting from Corporate Simplification

Clearing Out Your Garage – Benefiting from Corporate Simplification

By: Eddie Bines, managing director, Restructuring Advisory, Kroll “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more c..

CAFE2U: SUSTAINABILITY IN BUSINESS

CAFE2U: SUSTAINABILITY IN BUSINESS

By: Martyn Ward CEO Cafe2U With the UK set to host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), which ta..

Inflation trade? Nestle reaps benefits from higher prices

Inflation trade? Nestle reaps benefits from higher prices

By Silke Koltrowitz ZURICH (Reuters) – Nestle raised its full-year sales target on Wednesday after the world’s largest foo..

Analysis-Eat or be eaten? Food delivery apps have knives out as pandemic boom fades

Analysis-Eat or be eaten? Food delivery apps have knives out as pandemic boom fades

By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The meal delivery market is expected turn to a phase of consolidation in the coming month..

Amazon and others commit to using zero-carbon shipping fuels by 2040

Amazon and others commit to using zero-carbon shipping fuels by 2040

By Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) -Amazon.com Inc and IKEA are among commercial users of container shipping that will opt for zero-car..

Metro Bank posts flat third-quarter loan growth

Metro Bank posts flat third-quarter loan growth

(Reuters) – Metro Bank said on Wednesday third-quarter net loans were at similar levels to the previous quarter, as a reduction ..

A UK COVID lockdown would be wrong right now, business minister says

A UK COVID lockdown would be wrong right now, business minister says

LONDON (Reuters) – Another COVID lockdown would be completely wrong right now as Britain is learning to live with the novel coro..

The great reset: adjusting to Brexit

The great reset: adjusting to Brexit

By James Done, CEO, Tail There’s been a great deal of hand-wringing and discussion over the last five years about the Brexit vote and ..

UK competition watchdog has music streaming in its sights

UK competition watchdog has music streaming in its sights

By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s competition regulator plans to launch an investigation into music streaming to see wh..

Lightsource BP to enter Polish renewables market

Lightsource BP to enter Polish renewables market

LONDON (Reuters) – Lightsource BP said on Tuesday it was entering the Polish market with a deal to develop solar energy projects..

Shame, fear and guilt – how managers tackle the ‘imposter phenomenon’ at work

Shame, fear and guilt – how managers tackle the ‘imposter phenomenon’ at work

Do you ever feel like you aren’t good enough for the job you have, and any success you experience is due to luck? Does this affect you..

Adjust Makes Cross-Device Advertising Measurable as Connected TV’s Growth and Popularity Soars

Adjust Makes Cross-Device Advertising Measurable as Connected TV’s Growth and Popularity Soars

LONDON, October 18, 2021 — As global Connected TV (CTV) engagement increases exponentially year over year — with CTV users in the U.S...

Power squeeze curbs Chinese growth, leaves Europe in a gas bind

Power squeeze curbs Chinese growth, leaves Europe in a gas bind

By Muyu Xu, Oksana Kobzeva and Jason Hovet BEIJING/MOSCOW/PRAGUE (Reuters) – China’s power shortages hit growth in the wor..

Former U.S. President Clinton leaves hospital, heads to New York

Former U.S. President Clinton leaves hospital, heads to New York

ORANGE, Ca. (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Bill Clinton walked out of a Southern California hospital on Sunday after being admitted ..

Ford to invest around $300 million to build electric car parts at UK plant

Ford to invest around $300 million to build electric car parts at UK plant

LONDON (Reuters) – Ford said on Monday it would invest up to 230 million pounds ($316 million) to build electric car components ..

Oil prices climb as COVID recovery, power generators stoke demand

Oil prices climb as COVID recovery, power generators stoke demand

By Jessica Jaganathan SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Oil prices hit their highest level in years on Monday as demand recovers from the COVID-19 ..

Taiwan’s Foxconn shows off three electric vehicle prototypes

Taiwan’s Foxconn shows off three electric vehicle prototypes

By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan tech giant Foxconn unveiled its first three electric vehicle prototypes on Monday, unders..

For Britain’s chicken farmers, Brexit and COVID brew a perfect storm

For Britain’s chicken farmers, Brexit and COVID brew a perfect storm

By Kate Holton and James Davey DRIFFIELD, England (Reuters) – When Nigel Upson checks the plucked chicken carcasses dangling fro..

Hungry for fuel, China looks to the U.S., Europe eyes relief plans

Hungry for fuel, China looks to the U.S., Europe eyes relief plans

By Chen Aizhu, Jessica Jaganathan and Scott DiSavino (Reuters) – China’s energy crisis deepened on Friday with coal prices..

Adele makes music comeback with new single ‘Easy On Me’

Adele makes music comeback with new single ‘Easy On Me’

By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) -British singer-songwriter Adele made her highly anticipated music comeback on Friday, rele..

Pearson pounded after COVID hits U.S. community college enrolment

Pearson pounded after COVID hits U.S. community college enrolment

By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) -Global education group Pearson said enrolments at community colleges in the United States had been hi..