Insights

If you're a banking professional with at least ten years in the finance sector, you probably have more expertise than you realise. PER is an opportunity to reflect on your career and consolidate what you’ve learned – and could set you on the path to chartered status.

If you’re studying for a qualification or exams during Ramadan, you might be fasting and revising at the same time. This can be challenging, but it is possible to plan your studies and revision around your religious duties. These five tips should help.

Retirement planning offers a growing market for any financial advice business. But how has later-life planning changed and what skills do you need to serve your clients? Richard Cooper examines the evidence and offers his advice.

Senior executives enjoy turning to senior army officers for advice on how to lead their ‘troops’, but are they just basking in a little reflected glory? Or can they really learn something from the way the military engages its people? Stuart Tootal, a former colonel, talks to Ouida Taaffe.

Jobs in finance vary hugely and so do the people who work in the financial services sector – from techies to creatives and people with great soft skills. If you like being challenged, working in a team and solving problems, a career in finance could be for you.

A staggering 81% of young people feel anxious about money and finance, according to our latest Young Persons’ Money Index. That’s an increase of 14% on last year and the highest result recorded since LIBF first asked the question in 2016 (60%).

Lu Wei, Operations Manager at China Construction Bank, explains what attracted her to a career in trade finance, what she has gained from taking CDCS and CITF and what she plans to do next.

Most people who’ve studied our courses, professional qualifications or degree programmes enjoy rewarding careers in banking and finance. For National Careers Week, we share what they’ve told us about their jobs and what they love about working in the sector.

Women played a key role in developing computer technology and are important to the future of fintech and digital banking and finance.