This is not one of those financial services blog posts that claims any one single hot topic is going to lead to another international economic crisis. We all know the modern economy is extremely complex, and there are a wide variety of factors that would be involved if we saw another serious sudden downturn. What I want […]

ISO 27001 is a specification for Information Security Management systems – frameworks of procedures and policies that include all of the legal, technical and physical controls that are involved in a company’s information risk management process. It contains 172 requirements and  114 controls, and studies suggest it can take 12 months for a single IT […]

With social media activity at an all time high, it is more important than ever to be conscious of your personal brand, the digital image of yourself that you create which is visible to the wider world. Employers have long relied on references, referrals and the short 60 minutes they have face to face to […]

Having spent the year so far focussing closely on the intermediary and bridging finance markets, I’ve been having a number of conversations with people across the industry about what they’ve been seeing in 2017 and how they think the alternative lending sector will do across the rest of the year. The latest data from Bridging […]