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In the face of the increased volatility, complexity and interconnectivity which has become the ‘new normal’ for many companies, the ability of CFOs and finance functions to understand, quantify, manage and leverage risk is more important now than perhaps ever before.

Last week, Joel Mokyr was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his pioneering work on how innovation-driven progress transforms societies. His concept—a "culture of growth"—offers more than an economic lens...

As readers will be aware, the new funding regime is very different in nature to its predecessors.

The latest Government figures for alcohol and late night refreshment licences are out. Two points stand out for me.

On 15 July 2008 an order amending the collective investment schemes ("CIS") regime came into force.

An inevitable consequence of opening up access to insight for all will be the generation of many more ideas.

My previous blog post, ‘Behavioural economics vs data analytics’, introduced the topic of behavioural economics and explained how it differs from analytics.

Earlier this year, DMH Stallard and the Cloud Industry Forum published a whitepaper providing guidance to customers and cloud service providers on best practice in cloud contracts.

At the most basic level, an organization's technology investments can be divided into two categories: keeping the lights on and growing the business.

Companies spend plenty of time, effort and money protecting their networks from hackers.

Highlights from the European Parliament's report on the CAP. It has been confirmed that the EU Commission will produce its paper on the CAP post-2013, in November 2010.

The CBI has recently published its latest 'Access to Finance' survey, the full text of which can be found online at www.cbi.org.uk.

For those of you who are not familiar with BBBSOLA and what they do for our community, I urge you to visit their website.

The Entrepreneurial Scotland Awards & Celebration Dinner took place this year on St Andrew's Night, at SWG3. It was a celebration of entrepreneurial success ...

A number of firms in the financial services industry are looking to convert to Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) status. But what is driving this desire for conversion and are LLPs the structure of the future?

The dairy industry has been in the spotlight for a while now – and for good reason. Rising input costs, high prices and policy changes are squeezing farmers out of the market.

Today's entry reports on the ability to include alternatives in an application for a Development Consent Order.