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Costa Coffee owner Whitbread reports sales of £3.1 billion
April 25th, 2017
2016/17 was a 52-week year whereas 2015/16 was a 53-week year. In order to provide a clearer comparison, year-on-year growth relating to revenue, underlying profit and underlying earnings per share are shown on a 52-week comparative and a number ...
How digital is your country? The performance of the European countries
March 6th, 2017
The 2017 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) shows that the EU is making progress but the gap between top digital players and lower-performing countries is still too wide. More efforts and investments are needed to make the most ...
KPMG: What the top considerations for Internal Audit in 2017
February 6th, 2017
Competing in a rapidly changing world, companies must grapple with emerging challenges seemingly every day: cyber threats, emerging and potentially disruptive technologies, business performance risk and more. In this increasingly complex environment, Internal Audit (“IA”) has a crucial role ...
Apple joins Google, Facebook and Microsoft in AI research group
January 30th, 2017
Apple is joining fellow tech giants Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and IBM as the sixth founding member of the recently-formed artificial intelligence research group – the Partnership on AI. The non-profit said Apple has been “involved and collaborating with ...
ACCA released three New Year’s resolutions
January 5th, 2017
ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) has released three New Year’s resolutions to level the playing field on pay to coincide with the day on which, according to the National Pay Centre, average earnings of FTSE 100 CEOs ...
Wells Fargo Chairman and CEO is stepping down following fake accounts scandal
October 13th, 2016
Embattled Wells Fargo Chairman and CEO John Stumpf is stepping down from the bank he has led for nearly a decade, following intense scrutiny over a fake accounts scandal that erupted last month. San Francisco-based Wells said Wednesday that ...
Industry Experts take to stage for Fintech EUROPE London 2016
September 20th, 2016
Managers of Wealth (MoW) event FinTech EUROPE 2016 is to be held in central London on 27 October, 2016. The speakers represent many industry leading organisations and have extensive experience which contributes to their interesting, stimulating and insightful topics ...
BDO welcomes three new tax partners
September 9th, 2016
Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP continues to invest in its tax offering with three new partner appointments. Last year, revenues in BDO’s tax team increased by 20%, making it the fastest growing tax practice of the ten ...
Authorities pledge support, to issue rules for fintech
August 31st, 2016
Financial regulators are readying rules that will target financial technology businesses without limiting their room for growth as President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo pledges support for the infant industry. “I urge all parties to participate in fintech, IT and financial ...
Plus500 appoints a Non-Executive Director who will chair the newly formed Risk and Compliance Committee
June 29th, 2016
Plus500 has issued a press release to announce the appointment of Mrs. Penelope Ruth Judd (née Partridge), aged 53, as Non-Executive Director of the Company and a member of the Board of Directors with effect from 28 June 2016. She will ...
