31 August 2022 in Retail & E-commerce Sales and Marketing
At this year’s Consumer Goods Forum’s Global Summit in Dublin we took to the stage with Unilever to host a special session – Fueling Retailer-Manufacture Partnerships with Consumer Intelligence. During the session we discussed how Unilever’s People Data Centre (PDC) generates deep, real-time consumer insights that are driving the brand’s data-driven marketing efforts and powering Unilever’s retail collaboration and partnership strategy. Tune in.
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Rachel and Andrew discuss HMRC publishing a ‘Naming and Shaming’ list of all tax defaulters in the UK. Tax in 10 is a series of regular 10 minute private client tax podcast bites hosted by Rachel de Souza and Andrew Robins, private client tax partners at RSM UK.
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31 August 2022 in Human Resources
In this video, Hetan Shah, CEO of the British Academy, talks to the CIPD about how AI will affect workforces of the future. See full report here: https://bit.ly/3AtgaKH
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30 August 2022 in Family Business Issues Finance Growth & Strategy
Is private equity meeting market demands? Humza Khan, who leads our private equity sponsor coverage, is joined by guests from ECI Partners, Livingbridge, and All Seas Capital to talk about the rise of minority investments.
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30 August 2022 in Oil & Gas Renewables
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has created significant supply insecurity for European consumers. Baringa’s gas experts outline potential scenarios for how Europe could cope with a sudden termination of Russian gas flows as we head into the winter months. They pose the question “will the UK and Europe have enough gas this winter?”. They address whether LNG markets will be able to continue to provide additional supplies to Europe and outline how the UK is likely to manage without long-duration storage in the worse “no Russian gas” scenario.
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30 August 2022 in Employment Law Family Business Issues Human Resources
A recent Supreme Court Ruling (Harper Trust v Brazel) has clarified how holidays must be calculated for part time workers on irregular hours where there are gaps between their periods of work. Karen Gibb from Menzies People Solutions, and Andrea Tishler from GBH Law, discussed the recent supreme court judgement in Harper Trust v Brazel, and what the decision means for employers and employees.
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26 August 2022 in Intellectual Property Legal
Maximising the value of brands and trade marks The right protection in the right markets, aligned with your business plan and budget A brand can be your most valuable asset, giving you rights that need protecting, enforcing and commercialising. By providing you with a bespoke road map, we’ll ensure you get the best value out of your intellectual property. Wherever you are in the world, whatever the size of your business, whatever sector you’re in, we’ll make your brands and trade marks work harder for your budget. European and global We have trade mark attorneys in the UK and in mainland Europe,
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25 August 2022 in Gov. & Public Sector ITC
Dominik Weh, Co-Head of Public Sector and Policy Practice, Europe explains how digital transformation can allow governments to understand their citizens better at the Oliver Wyman Forum’s Financial Regulatory Outlook Conference 2022 held in Rome.
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25 August 2022 in Investments Wealth Management
A core skill as an investor is being able to spot whether a stock is cheap or expensive. Tim uses bank shares to illustrate why this is harder than it sounds.
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24 August 2022 in Sales and Marketing
This exciting episode of the CIM Marketing Podcast was the first ever to be recorded in front of a live audience and features Emilie Stephenson, head of force for good at Innocent UK, and Richard Cope, senior trends consultant at Mintel, as they discuss the do’s and don’ts of sustainable marketing. Watch on-demand to understand how to make purpose profitable, how to avoid the risks of greenwashing and check out our live Q&A session from the day.
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23 August 2022 in Exiting the Business Family Business Issues
If you are a business owner and you are at the point where you want to start taking step back how long will it take your management team to get up to scratch? We spoke to our Founder and Managing Director, Nicky Larkin, and she helps to manage the expectations — GET IN TOUCH — ▹Goringe Accountants Homepage:- https://goringeaccountants.co.uk/ ▹Goringe Accountants Blog:- https://goringeaccountants.co.uk/blog/ ▹Goringe Accountants LinkedIn:- https://www.linkedin.com/company/gori… ▹Goringe Accountants Twitter:- https://twitter.com/goringeaccounts Thanks for watching and don’t forget to let us know what you think
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23 August 2022 in Banking Insurance
The FCA has unveiled the final rules and associated guidance for a new “Consumer Duty”, which it says will set higher and clearer standards of consumer protection for financial services firms. We see this as a huge challenge for the financial services industry. While great strides have been made in improving product governance and customer service, there is still a significant amount of work required to ensure good outcomes for consumers. In our recent survey of 2000 consumers, we found that almost three quarters (72%) do not fully read or understand the terms and conditions of a new financial product
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22 August 2022 in Uncategorised
Cyber security guru Jane Frankland explains how CISOs can spot risks so the organisation can get on with building the dream. https://accntu.re/3JEQOwz
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19 August 2022 in Commercial Property Construction Legal
Neil Howes, Alison Garrett and Peter Lennon from Mills & Reeve discussed: – What adjudication is and how it works – Whether professional negligence claims can be referred to as adjudication – Adjudication and policy coverage – The pros and cons of adjudication – What happens if you lose at adjudication – is that the end of the road?
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19 August 2022 in Retail & E-commerce
From our Brussels office, Peter Speltincx – Partner in our Consumer Good & Retail practice – and Antoine Methens, Manager discuss in this short webinar what the key success factors are for consumer goods companies to set up effective promotion strategies to maximize ROI in a changing shopper environment
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19 August 2022 in Advisers & Intermediaries Banking Charities & Not for Profit Construction Cyber Security Education Food & Drink Gov. & Public Sector Industries Insurance ITC Legal Life Sciences Manufacturing Oil & Gas Renewables Retail & E-commerce Travel & Tourism
Watch the discussion on cybersecurity frameworks from Atos & Cybereason joint Linkedin Live event, “Threat hunting & incident response” that took place on the 7th of July 2022. The speakers of the event are Vinod Vasudevan (Global CTO for MDR & Deputy CTO for Cybersecurity Services, Atos) and Greg Day (VP & Global Field CISO, Cybereason)
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18 August 2022 in Charities & Not for Profit
With the prospect of a new Prime Minister on the horizon, our regular panel James Saunders (Partner – Moore Kingston Smith), Charles Mesquita (Charities Director – Quilter Cheviot) and Catherine Rustomji (Partner and Head of Charities – Shakespeare Martineau) discuss the nature of the relationship between parliament and the charity sector, especially whether charities are served well in parliament.
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18 August 2022 in Cyber Security ITC
In the second episode of the ‘Tech for Leaders’ podcast series Yemi Olutola, Senior Cyber Security Consultant at Mazars, discusses and explores the various challenges business leaders and organisations face in securing their assets against cyber threats with Chris Vaughan. Chris is the Area Vice President for Technical Account Management EMEA, at Tanium. Tanium is a cyber security company that provides converged endpoint management via a single platform to give visibility and control of an IT environment and integrate IT, Security, Risk and Compliance. More details here: https://www.mazars.co.uk/Home/Insight…
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18 August 2022 in Investments Wealth Management
In this week’s Market Update, Rachel Winter talks about US inflation, the US Inflation Reduction Act, and Xylem.
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18 August 2022 in Exiting the Business Family Business Issues
The general consensus is that there will be a recession in the coming months. The best way to recession-proof your business is to start now. We spoke to our Managing Director and Founder, Nicky Larkin, and she gave 5 things to keep in mind for the recession. Do you think there will be a recession this year? Let us know in the comments.
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17 August 2022 in Construction Legal Manufacturing Renewables
Supply chain problems are widespread across many industry sectors. The effects of pandemic disruption, economic recovery and now armed conflict in in Eastern Europe are bound to impact the ease with which cross-border supply chains function. For the UK and EU this is without the added effects of Brexit. From a disputes perspective, we are seeing this issue arise in relation to solar energy projects. In the latest video in our Infrastructure Developments Video Series, Nick Peacock discusses supply chain issues in the solar industry.
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17 August 2022 in Retail & E-commerce
INDUSTRY UPDATE: E-COMMERCE // How has the e-commerce landscape changed since the Covid-19 pandemic? With insights taken from our latest industry report, here we share the current E-Commerce climate and an outlook for 2022.Inside the report you’ll find performance analysis, a market structure breakdown, recent trends and more. The report is free to download from the Gerald Edelman website: https://www.geraldedelman.com/insight… If you have any questions about anything covered during the report, contact Nick Wallis, or our Deal Advisory team today: https://www.geraldedelman.com/our-peo…
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17 August 2022 in Uncategorised
View the launch of our new thought leadership, which reveals the regulatory landscape across the EU and UK for emerging green transport technologies. The paper covers existing laws and planned reforms to accommodate widespread adoption of alternative fuelled vehicles and their supporting infrastructure, including electric vehicles, hydrogen and biofuelled vehicles, charging systems and battery storage. Our speakers include experts from the EU and UK, who discuss key points from the paper before answering questions from our attendees.
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17 August 2022 in Banking Insurance
We are pleased to invite you to watch our Economic Update where we will look at the emerging macroeconomic trends, the outlook for the UK and the global economy. We will analyse the risks to a sustained economic recovery and identify the key drivers of downside risk with a specific focus on the Financial Services sector.
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16 August 2022 in Accounting Tax Uncategorised
As part of our ongoing campaign to ensure our clients are aware of the upcoming changes by HM Revenue & Customs to the reporting of self-employment or rental income, we have produced a short Q&A video that covers some frequently asked questions we get about Making Tax Digital. Amongst other questions, our Tax team address the eligible criteria, what you need to do if you meet the criteria, how to submit your records, and why you should do anything at all! If you would like to discuss any points raised by the video, please contact your usual relationship manager who
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16 August 2022 in ITC Uncategorised
Data and analytics initiatives are essential to the digital transformation, but they risk failing if there is widespread uncertainty. Clarity should be created by data and analytics executives by outlining and promoting the values that will direct these initiatives’ choices and actions. This video addresses the most significant challenges that data analytics leaders face and transforms uncertainty into opportunity by using data and analytics as powerful tools to drive innovation and manage change effectively.
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16 August 2022 in Banking Insurance Uncategorised
Watch John Romeo, Head of the Oliver Wyman Forum, explain four key takeaways from our Financial Regulatory Outlook Conference 2022.
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15 August 2022 in Employment Law Human Resources Legal
People Matter is a vlog series from the employment law team at Mills & Reeve LLP. Each vlog will deliver updates and opinion on issues facing HR professionals now, as well as tips and solutions you can put into practice. Alison Williams and Remziye Ozcan are Senior Associates in the employment team at Mills & Reeve. In this vlog episode, they discuss whether Long COVID is a disability and share top tips for managing employees with Long COVID, including best practice for managing absence.
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15 August 2022 in Inheritance Tax Planning (IHT) Wealth Management
This video is about the 3 most important questions you need to ask before you start an inheritance tax plan. To get help and answer any questions you have about inheritance tax please use the contact system on our website: https://www.bluebond.co.uk/calender-w… We provide a FREE 90-minute webinar on IHT and estate planning where you can learn more about the structure and benefits and get all your questions answered. To register for the webinar, please use the link below: https://www.bluebond.co.uk/webinar-pa… Anyone who attends the full webinar will be entitled to a FREE 30 minutes 1-1 personal meeting with Charles. Charles de
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Get dashboards ready and watch this recording of a webinar hosted by The Pensions Regulator and the Pensions Dashboard Programme.
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12 August 2022 in Investments Wealth Management
Financial headlines are often filled with doom and gloom. Tim explains why paying them too much attention over the summer could be a mistake.
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12 August 2022 in Uncategorised
Director of Policy and Corporate Governance Dr Roger Barker gives an overview of IoD Policy updates in the last month, and a brief introduction to the latest Influence eNewsletter.
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What is one key structure procurement professions should challenge and one to adopt? Dr John Glen answers your questions.
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11 August 2022 in Employment Law Human Resources Legal
In our latest SME Video Series video, we look at how you can conduct right to work checks professionally.
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11 August 2022 in Oil & Gas Renewables Tax
Listen to our latest interview with Tax Partner’s Julia McCullagh and James Egert with special guest David Murray, Head of Tax Policy & Sustainability at Anglo American as they explore current themes of tax transparency and what it means in the natural resources industry. Read our related article: https://bdo.co.uk/en-gb/insights/indu…
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10 August 2022 in Legal Procurement
Successful businesses are increasingly reliant on global (and often complex) supply chains. This brings unwanted litigation risks. It is critical that businesses today understand and manage the risks relevant not only to the operations of the parent company, but also to its subsidiaries and wider supply chain. In our recent webinar, our panellists from Enyo Law, Fierville Ziade and FTI Consulting discuss the latest international legal trends in this area and why staying alert to supply chain issues (with a focus on business human rights and environmental, social and governance) is more important than ever.
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10 August 2022 in ITC Manufacturing
ACP’s CEO Mitch Scherr and Make UK’s CEO Stephen Phipson share their thoughts and industry-insider perspectives on the cyber threats and impacts faced by the manufacturing industry, and why manufacturers must take steps towards cyber resiliency if they want to keep their business and intellectual property protected. Who Are Make Uk? Make UK champions and celebrates British manufacturing and manufacturers. Together, we build a platform for the evolution of UK manufacturing
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10 August 2022 in Construction ITC Legal
Many infrastructure operators use drones in their own business for construction purposes, survey or inspection, and airports exist to enable their own aviation operations. As a result, infrastructure operators are having to consider the threat to their operations posed by an errant drone. In the latest video in Bird & Bird’s Infrastructure Development Video Series, Simon Phippard discusses the legal issues to be considered in counter UAS technology.
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10 August 2022 in Accounting GRC & ESG Industries
Analysing the success of your crisis management strategy roll-out, and evaluating if and where, it could have been improved is a natural part of the post-crisis review. Watch Dan Breger, Associate Director, discuss how to create a post-crisis action plan.
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10 August 2022 in Growth & Strategy ITC
Accenture UKI’s S&C lead Rachel Barton talks about the challenges facing CEOs in their journey to the cloud
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9 August 2022 in Finance GRC & ESG
Businesses have a lot to consider when planning their mandatory TCFD disclosures (Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures). Here’s what corporates need to know in less than 15 minutes.
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9 August 2022 in Gov. & Public Sector GRC & ESG Renewables
Mark Turner, Partner, Power & Low Carbon Solutions, shares insights into Baringa’s recently published study on the decarbonisation of the Irish power market. For more information, contact us on lowcarbonfutures@baringa.com
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9 August 2022 in Growth & Strategy ITC View Points
Innovation is at the heart of everything we do, but what really goes into it? “Go to sleep dreaming and wake up in the middle of the night with a solution”, says the inventor, Silicon Valley icon, and co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak. In a fireside chat with Zurich’s Ericson Chan, this legend of our digital times reveals all in our third Zurich Talks – sharing his inspiration, how to become truly innovative and his formula for happiness.
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Schellion Horn, Steve Holt along with Enyo Law and Brick Court Chambers hosted a webinar to discuss ESG matters discussing the good, the bad and the ugly.
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Are you a UK company looking for #exporting opportunities in Latin America?Find out why #uruguay could be an ideal exporting destination for your company. Find out more at https://www.great.gov.uk
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8 August 2022 in Investments Wealth Management
On this episode of the Money Matters podcast Danni and Laura are talking kids and money.
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8 August 2022 in Finance View Points
Rich Causon of Causon Business Finance gives insight into asset finance and what it can do for your business. Today’s topic is HGV Finance. Many thanks to Wood & Co (Leicester) Ltd for the use of their vehicles and yard.The HGV an integral part of Britain’s economy, with 500,000 of them the on the road at any point in time, moving anything from socks through to rocks, it’s not a stretch to say they keep the country moving. If you run a haulage business, you know the importance of having a good fleet of these, ready to go at short
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5 August 2022 in Commercial Property Construction
Our second session in our Modern Methods of Construction series. These discussions will look to unlock the full potential of using #MMC within #construction projects. This panel discussion we focused on the key considerations for #procurement and #planning, as well as the impact the UK Government could have on #MMC uptake.
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As the economic climate gets tougher, what marks out survivor stocks from the rest? Tim explains what he looks for in this short video.
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Dr John Glen discusses the challenges procurement and supply professionals face today and how strategy and values could become a blocker when it comes to change.
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4 August 2022 in Exiting the Business Family Business Issues
Selling a business is fast becoming a strategic option for owners, and with this, more are wondering ‘when is the right time?’. The volatility of the market shows no signs of letting up, but that by no means signals holding back. In reality, there is no perfect time to sell a business and the right time will depend on a number of factors that differ for every business.In our webinar, we take you through: – The various options available to you – Reasons we see our clients selling up right now – Alternative strategies gaining traction – The critical challenges
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4 August 2022 in Accounting Legal
Recorded on 20 July 2022, Neil Smyth and Morgan Bowen discuss how to better protect against counter-party insolvency.
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4 August 2022 in Tax
Total Tax Contribution (TTC): Alwyn Hopkins interviews Fay Parfitt and Binka Layton from EY’s Global Tax Compliance and Reporting team on sustainability and growing business interest in TTC, the key actions for tax functions and how we are helping businesses.
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3 August 2022 in ITC Legal Sales and Marketing
The UK government has now published its Data Protection and Digital Information Bill. This will not only revise the UK’s data privacy framework (the UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, and PECR), it also covers a range of other data sharing issues including customer and business data, smart data and health data.. How radical are the proposals and what will they mean for businesses, particularly for multi-nationals which are already GDPR-compliant?
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3 August 2022 in ITC
As organizations have gone through dramatic changes in the past two years, data and analytics has simultaneously been a driver, enabler and response to the changes. Gareth Herschel, Gartner VP Analyst, shares that although it is tempting to think things will “return to normal,” there will be no old or new normal. In a world of continuous uncertainty, we must use data and analytics innovation to deliver the outcomes our organizations require.
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3 August 2022 in Wealth Management
Welcome to Tax in 10, a series of regular 10 minute tax podcast bites for the private client world. Featuring Rachel de Souza and Andrew Robins, private client tax partners at RSM UK. This week in episode 38, Rachel and Andrew follow on from the last podcast where they discussed the rules of IHT and residential property. This week they explain how Statutory Residence Rules work and discuss a real life example of an anonymised first tier tribunal case with HMRC regarding how long you can spend in the UK without being a tax resident.
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2 August 2022 in Human Resources Recruitment Talent Management
Listen back to our webinar where we discuss the findings of our What Workers Want report.
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After stocks rallied in July, investors are asking if this is the real deal, or the calm within the bear market storm. Investment expert Tom Stevenson takes a look at whether this is the start of a larger recovery. Capital at risk.
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2 August 2022 in Inheritance Tax Planning (IHT) Wealth Management
SUBSCRIBEThis video explains the main benefits of a comprehensive estate planning. To get help and answer any questions you have about inheritance tax please use the contact system on our website: https://www.bluebond.co.uk/calender-w… We provide a FREE 90-minute webinar on IHT and estate planning where you can learn more about the structure and benefits and get all your questions answered. To register for the webinar, please use the link below: https://www.bluebond.co.uk/webinar-pa… Anyone who attends the full webinar will be entitled to a FREE 30 minutes 1-1 personal meeting with Charles. Charles de Lastic
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2 August 2022 in ITC
Our team of Apple experts at CDW cover the new macOS announced at the WWDC in June 2022.
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Rushed into law in the immediacy of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, what is the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 all about? The event held on 14 June at Aldgate Tower and co-hosted by Ince and London Barristers’ chambers, 25 Bedford Row, looked to answer these questions, and more: 1. What is new? 2. How have the existing powers of the CFA 2017 and SAMLA 2018 been amended? 3. What does this all mean for you and your clients? 4. Do the changes go far enough? 5. Are the changes a force for good? 6. What further legislative
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The UK is unlocking over £20bn worth of UK exports by resolving a hit list of around 100 trade barriers around the world. Secretary of State for International Trade, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, sets out the UK’s plan for ensuring British products and services reach hundreds of millions of new customers globally, benefitting all regions of the UK. Read more: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/bo…
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1 August 2022 in GRC & ESG ITC
In the first episode of the ‘Tech for leaders’ podcast series Alex Miller, Ethical Hacking Assistant Manager at Mazars, helps to unpick challenges in the cyber threat space with specialist guest host Dr. Jamie Collier. Jamie is a Senior Threat Intelligence Advisor at Mandiant, an American Cyber Security firm that specialise in Cyber Threat Intelligence. Jamie works with organisations in the EMEA region to help them understand their threat landscape and build threat intelligence capabilities. Jamie is also a fellow of the UK’s oldest and leading security think tank, RUSI. More details here: https://www.mazars.co.uk/Home/Insight…
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1 August 2022 in ITC Sales and Marketing
In this webinar we bring together an esteemed panel of speakers from the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games to explore how the delivery of a large scale international sporting event has: * Used technology in innovative ways to enhance spectator experience * Utilised the collection of data to help shape and maximise commercial revenue * Overcome issues on data collection and storage as a result of working with so many different stakeholders/third parties * Built and developed a global fan base whilst complying with data protection regulation. * Collected data safely from merchandising partners. * Converted IP rights into commercial opportunities *
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1 August 2022 in Accounting Exiting the Business Family Business Issues
Advisors work on M&A transactions on a daily basis. Therefore, we recommend you speak to an advisor as soon as you start thinking about selling your business. An advisor can help you with: – preparing your business for sale, so that when you go to market the business is ready and you can get the best possible value – negotiating and structuring a deal – finding a buyer For further information, contact Nick Wallis: https://www.geraldedelman.com/our-peo…
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