Labour party conference 2015: Business leaders shouldn’t discount Jeremy Corbyn completely – his paternity leave plans suggest there could be open-minded approach People had made their minds up about Jeremy Corbyn long before he’d really showed his hand. The collective wisdom is that he is the antithesis of the politics that we’ve come to know, and in particular that he is virulently anti-business.But collective wisdom isn’t necessarily right, and Corbyn began to prove this when he addressed [...]
London fintech: Insurance tech is here, but it needs to catch up with the world of data science Rob Moffat’s recent column on the necessity for the insurance industry to catch up with tech was a welcome call to arms. It throws down the gauntlet to what can be a regressive industry, and plots a course for the future. What he may not have realised, though, is that much of the work he [...]
UK economy: As the UK emerges from recession, the country’s small businesses are flexing their muscles There are now 4.5 million SMEs in the UK. They’re the beating heart of the country’s economy, and they have the potential to build a truly sustainable recovery. That’s a fact that’s in evidence today. Our latest research shows a 90 per cent increase since 2010 in the number of small businesses tapping into a [...]
