While vacancies have fallen in the final months of 2022, pre-Covid comparisons show a significant increase in jobs and placements in November, indicating that the shortage of skills across the UK remains acute. That’s based on the latest data from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) – the trade body for the professional recruitment sector.

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Amid the ongoing global economic downturn, a widespread concern over a deterioration of the outlook for B2B payment behaviour in the coming months is a major worry for companies polled in Eastern Europe. There is anxiety about the outlook for 2023 that a combination of factors like high inflation, the energy crisis and geopolitical tensions could significantly affect also the outlook for their dom...

Leaders who seek to guide their companies through ESG transitions should strive to develop seven competencies, a review of literature and practice from Nyenrode Business University and KPMG reveals.

According to Dr. Muel Kaptein, Equity Partner at KPMG and speaker at the ESG Innovation Institute, these competencies are compassion, curiosity, commitment, creativity, courage, cooperation, and consi...

CEOs with exaggerated self-confidence show a preference for steadiness within organisations, finds new research from the University of Mannheim Business School.

Marc Kowalzick, Post-Doctoral researcher at the University of Mannheim Business School, and Moritz Appels, former University of Mannheim PhD student and now Assistant Professor at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, addres...

The rising cost of leverage as well as volatile valuations amidst a global economic downturn and tightening monetary policies have been identified as the greatest challenges facing the private equity (PE) industry, according to global law firm Dechert's latest Global Private Equity Outlook 2023.

Globally, private equity deal values have almost halved from US$1.2 trillion to US$685 billion be...

Global cryptocurrency markets are reeling after the infamous FTX implosion burned an estimated $2 billion hole in investors' pockets. But a new survey reveals that nearly DOUBLE that amount has been lost to scams and 'rug-pulls' across 2022.

Cybersecurity and data privacy specialists from Privacy Affairs, in their round-up of Cryptocurrency Scams of 2022, cited the failure of crypto e...

The latest EY Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI 60) show that governments around the world are accelerating their renewables programs to help reduce their reliance on imported energy, in the face of continuing geopolitical tensions and economic uncertainty. Launched to coincide with Energy Day at COP27, RECAI 60 ranks the world's top 40 markets on the attractiveness of ...

Digital banking has become a fundamental requisite for most banks and their digitally savvy consumers. It is believed that by 2030, technology will drive a fundamental shift in banking where traditional banks will become hidden or even invisible.

According to GBSB Global Business School, this innovation of digital finance has the potential to create many new digital careers. Which will require di...

IT leaders feel they now have a seat at the table in terms of business decision-making but their ability to drive business agility could be short-lived, according to a new study from Appian (Nasdaq: APPN). Eight in ten (79%) UK developers say their organisation is already shifting focus away from innovation projects and towards cost-cutting initiatives, which could halt the momentum achieved in qu...