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Our experts provide their insights on the latest industry developments and share tips on accountancy and business matters.
03 December 2019
SMCR Changes Are Coming To TownYou’d better prepare; you’d better comply; you’d better adapt; we’re telling you why - SMCR changes are coming to town…
30 October 2019
Commercial Partnerships - what can banks learn from the Roman Empire?Not so long ago, FinTech and InsurTech firms were thought to present an existential threat to traditional financial services providers and their market share. ‘Adapt or die’ became the mantra. The realisation has come that there is more to be gained by working collaboratively together than there is from competing. However, partnerships can be very difficult to launch and make successful if a well thought through strategy and plan is not in place or followed.
02 October 2019
Jockeying for positionThe phrase to ‘jockey for position’ is commonly used to refer to manoeuvring or competing to gain an advantageous position. This article explores competition and how firms are responding to increased competition in the banking and financial services sector, both from their own kind (interspecific) and perhaps more challengingly from non-traditional businesses (intraspecific).
30 August 2019
Regulating the temperatureLooking in more detail at regulation, how firms are responding to the changing face of our regulatory environment and how they embed compliance and risk management into their business change and transformation agenda. Just as the summer has presented wide extremes of weather from heatwaves to storms, regulated entities need to be prepared to regulate their temperature without creating unintended issues or unmitigated risk.
05 August 2019
Punishing Capital – why capital creation is criticalHow can firms bolster and preserve capital so that a lack of capital does not become a punishing vulnerability? Furthermore, and just as vital, once a course of action has been agreed, are all the consequential changes and how they will be implemented & effectively managed within the business fully understood?
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