Insights

The Good Old Days! When I was first making my way in business, I always admired well-connected business leaders; those people who seemed to know everyone, that had a (not so) little black book as thick as a Tolkien novel. They always seemed to know someone who could solve a problem and were never short of help when the need arose.

The City of London of 50 years ago, with hand-written ledgers and runners delivering messages, would have been familiar to Dickens but is hardly recognisable now. Still, even 20 years ago there were still a lot of paper-based bank products and processes. Now, people are talking about disintermediating financial services with distributed ledger technologies that take the place of trusted third parties, including banks.

Continuing the Trade Finance series, our Relationship Directors, Mike Backhouse and David Morrish talk about their trips and discussing why Supply Chain is becoming increasingly more relevant in trade finance. ​

On 22 October 2006 European Home Retail PLC (EHR) appointed Administrative Receivers (PWC), under a debenture granted to HBOS in 2000. Not something earth shattering, in itself, but the timing – 8 weeks to Christmas (that’s around 56 more sleeps) sent reverberations through the press (Smithers, 2006 for example), the banks, the consuming public and the corridors of power.

This week is ‘Talk Money’ week – an annual activity organised as part of the Financial Capability Strategy for the UK which aims to get more people talking about money. Find out more.

In this two-part series, we bring you expert advice on structuring the perfect CV and how to make the best impression during each interview. Here’s part one on how to make your CV shine.

Will automation that saves time, cuts cost and carries out routine tasks with unmatched efficiency, mean fewer jobs or free human staff to offer customers excellent service? Alastair Tyler investigates.

There is a lot of data in the world. The world will be generating 847 zettabytes of data by 2021. A zettabyte is sextillionbytes (10 to the power of 21). To compare, one plain text email is 2Kb. We spoke to the CEO of one AI start-up – Thoughtonomy’s Terry Walby – about what it is doing.

Philip Augar discusses his recently-published book on Barclays. Based on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with compelling pace and drama, The Bank that Lived a Little describes three decades of boardroom intrigue at one of Britain's biggest financial institutions. Listen now to hear Philip read extracts from the book, and answer questions from our audience of students, members and other guests.