The Bank of England’s base rate of interest is the highest in 14 years, increasing from 3.5% to 4%. This higher interest rate will be welcomed with open arms by savers but have an enormous knock-on effect for those with mortgages, credit card debt or bank loans.
National Apprenticeship Week takes place this week (6-12th February) and it is the first time prisoners have been included. Entrepreneur James Tweed urges all involved to see the potential in training those with criminal records.
With a busy and challenging year ahead, it may be easy to assume that upskilling should be put on the backburner thanks to the associated cost and time involved. However, the reality is quite the opposite.
The 2023 edition of the audiovisual and systems integration exhibition surpassed all expectations as it delivered record visitor numbers, stimulating new content and appearances from visiting royalty and political dignitaries at the Fira Gran Via Barcelona!
Social Chain is the social media agency founded by Dragon’s Den star Steven Bartlett in 2014. It is set to be sold for £7.7m.
We spoke to Kudo AI at ISE 2023 about their real-time fully AI automated speech translator.
A new study from experience innovation consultancy Designit reveals that ‘laggard’ leadership teams in businesses across the globe are failing to address sustainability, despite every impetus to act.
The insurance industry is undergoing significant transformation. The competitive pressure and increasing market and customer demands in the industry, as well as new players and business models threatening the established core business, are driving consistent innovation.
New research commissioned by digital transformation and marketing agency Paragon DCX has revealed that the asset and wealth management sector is struggling to prioritise digital transformation.
Seventy-four percent of UK businesses don’t feel on a strong footing to deal with future change, as they face the start of another tumultuous year.
Saudi Arabian mining company, Ma’aden, and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Innovation Ventures fund have invested $6 million into Lithium Infinity (Lihytech), a startup who has developed an economically feasible way to extract lithium from seawater.
The government’s Start Up Loans scheme has achieved another milestone as the 100,000th business loan is granted, bringing the total support given to firms to more than £941 million.
WeWork, the global flexible space provider, is expanding its partnership with I Love Coffee – a social enterprise that employs and trains deaf individuals to become baristas – to four WeWork locations in London.
With many industry commentators predicting that 2023 will be a year of enhanced regulations across the fintech sector, Monneo has announced the hire of payments industry veteran and risk expert, Steve Wilson as its new Head of Compliance.
We spoke to Barco at ISE 2023 about ClickShare and the launch of their latest edition to the ClickShare Conference range.
We spoke to TD SYNNEX Maverick at ISE 2023 about who they are and the range of professional display brands they distribute.
Greenspark, a climate-tech start-up revolutionising the way businesses take environmental action, today (1st February) announced it has raised £1m in seed funding. The investment round was led by Fuel Ventures, alongside Pitchdrive, 1818 Venture Capital, Zone2Boost, Great Stuff Ventures, QC-Ventures, and Boost Fund, who join existing investors Anthemis, BBVA and Perivoli Innovations.
