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Simon Cavell & Emma Archondakis

Simon Cavell & Emma Archondakis

30 January 2024

  • Financial Services
  • Consumer Duty
Telling the story: Clear communications, understanding, and good customer outcomes

Clear communication and understanding is central to delivering good outcomes.  But for many customers, comprehension is a substantial barrier to overcome.  It can be challenging to fully understand the intricacies and implications of the financial products they use and may need.

Catriona Love

Catriona Love

Outsourced Finance Services Senior Manager

30 January 2024

  • Business Advisory
  • Outsourced Finance Services
How outsourcing your finance function can help bridge the skills gap

Following the challenges of the pandemic and Brexit, the UK continues to face a finance skills shortage. According to a recent survey more than four fifths of Chief Finance Officers in the UK and US are struggling to recruit.

Guy Broad

Guy Broad

Financial Services Consulting Senior Manager

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23 January 2024

  • Financial Services
  • Consumer Duty
  • Consulting
Consumer Duty: Measuring & managing outcomes

More than just compliance, ensuring good customer outcomes is a powerful way for firms to differentiate their brand in a crowded marketplace.  As customers actively seek out organisations who share their values, good outcomes can create a real competitive advantage.

Kirsty Reynolds

Kirsty Reynolds

Business Advisory Director and Head of Outsourced Finance Services

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23 January 2024

  • Business Advisory
  • Digital Advisory
New year, new tech? Make sure implementation is at the top of your resolution list

While individuals mark the new year with resolutions, many businesses will be using the onset of 2024 to consider how best they can improve their operations.
As digitisation plays an increasingly important role across all sectors, upgrading and adopting new systems is likely to be high on their wish list. Embedded AI (AI that operates in the background without the user realising) is ever growing and robotics are on the rise. Other businesses are anticipating upcoming changes to legislation by utilising cloud software to future proof their business.

Polly Purvis

Polly Purvis

Johnston Carmichael Tech Advisory Board Member

18 January 2024

  • Technology & Life Sciences
Key trends across Scotland’s tech industry for 2024

At the start of a New Year, it’s only natural that people in Scotland’s tech sector will start to think about what the emerging themes will be across our industry in the next 12 months. Here, Polly Purvis, Johnston Carmichael Tech Advisory Board member, predicts what these key themes will be.

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