eClerx Signs MoU with ITIDA, Enhancing Its Multilingual Support Offering for Global Clients November 18, 2025 eClerx Services Ltd (ECLERX.NS), a leading productized services company, today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Egypt’s Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) to better serve clients through a strengthened multilingual support offering and advanced technology-led services. eClerx already has a sizeable presence in the region, having opened a new [...]
‘Hey you guys!’ A Goonies 40th anniversary pilgrimage to filming locations in Oregon November 18, 2025 The Goonies turns 40 this year. And so does lifelong fan Damien Gabet. To celebrate their birthdays, he visits the film locations in Oregon The first time I travelled to the States in 2009 I was so excited I thought I might die. I wanted to see where Disney and donuts came from so badly [...]
Balancing motherhood and an Executive MBA: A Student’s Guide to Making It Work November 18, 2025 When Executive MBA student Rachel Knox discovered she was pregnant just three months into the programme, she suddenly found herself navigating one of the most demanding combinations imaginable: postgraduate study, a high-pressure career and impending motherhood. Instead of stepping back, Rachel embraced the challenge and in doing so uncovered just how transformative the journey could [...]
How the Bayes Executive MBA Helped an Associate Director reinvent his career November 18, 2025 How the Bayes Executive MBA Helped an Associate Director reinvent his career After nearly a decade in global banking, Isaac Phang reached a crucial moment in his career. Although firmly established at HSBC, he felt uncertain about his long-term direction and was questioning whether to remain in the sector. His decision to pursue the Executive [...]
Options Selects atNorth Data Center for Private AI Solution November 18, 2025 Options Technology (Options), the leading provider of capital markets infrastructure, today announced a partnership with atNorth, the leading Nordic high-density colocation and built-to-suit datacenter provider, to host its expanded private AI solution, at atNorth’s ICE02 data center in Iceland. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251118956675/en/ Options infrastructure expansion results from [...]
PE-backed Grant Thornton defies market trends with recruitment drive November 18, 2025 Private equity-backed accountancy giant Grant Thornton is bucking the trend in the professional service market with its plans to recruit 160 new partners over the next two years. Back in December, the firm’s partners unanimously voted in favour of an investment from private equity firm Cinven in a deal expected to value the firm at up to [...]
Time to bring back the Great British exit November 18, 2025 Britain has no lack of ideas, founders or ambition but too often our successful start-ups lean on American giants when they exit. This isn’t inevitable, says Carolyn Dawson More than 100 companies are incorporated every hour in this country. British start-ups have raised more than $7bn in investment so far this year alone. Despite the [...]
Reform and Tories battle over the Budget with spending cuts calls November 18, 2025 Opposition parties Reform UK and the Conservatives are intensifying pressure on Labour ahead of the Budget with calls for dramatic spending cuts to fix public finances. In separate press conferences on Tuesday, leaders Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch called for deep cuts to government expenditure to balance the books. Their renewed attacks on the government [...]
Investors flee UK stocks as Budget jitters echo Liz Truss fiasco November 18, 2025 Fund managers are ditching UK stocks as the fastest pace since Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng panicked markets with the 2022 mini-budget. Global investors have dramatically reduced their risk to UK equities as the Labour government’s second Budget edges closer, where a hefty batch of tax rises are expected to be on the horizon. Rachel [...]
CEOs say Reeves and Starmer are not doing enough – BGF boss November 18, 2025 Business leaders across the country feel the Labour government “certainly does not appear to be doing enough” to support them, the chief executive of investment giant BGF has said. Speaking on an up-coming episode of City AM’s Boardroom Uncovered podcast, Andy Gregory said a recent survey of BGF’s portfolio has revealed views from business leaders [...]