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How would VAT be affected if no deal is made following Brexit negotiations?
September 3rd, 2018
With continued backlash in parliament over the Chequers deal, the UK are falling behind in their negotiations for exiting the European Union on 29 March 2019. While HMRC argues that the likelihood of the UK leaving the EU without ...
U.K. accounting faces chaos in no-deal Brexit
August 28th, 2018
Accounting in the U.K. would be thrown into chaos if the country fails to strike a deal on how to leave the European Union, which looks increasingly likely. “Things could simply stop,” Anthony Walters, Head of Public Affairs at ...
cTrader Recognized with an Award for Following ISO 27001:2013
August 14th, 2018
Spotware, an award-winning trading technology provider, has recently attended the Annual Quality Assurance Conference, where cTrader, Spoware’s trading platform, has received the award for its outstanding implementation of ISO 27001:2013 for the Information Security Management System it employs. cTrader ...
KPMG Report on Fintech: Global investment in Fintech is going gangbusters
August 9th, 2018
KPMG has published their Pulse of Fintech report highlighting global Fintech activity for the first half of 2018. According to KPMG, global investment in Fintech is going gangbusters as “Fintech market activity worldwide gained momentum during the first half ...
Consumers choose cheaper, faster ‘lawbots’ over expensive, slow lawyers
August 6th, 2018
New research into the use of digital technology in the UK legal sector has revealed that seven out of 10 consumers would choose a ‘lawbot,’ a customer facing, automated online system to handle their legal affairs over a human ...
New EU copyright filtering law threatens the internet as we knew it
June 20th, 2018
On June 20th, a committee of the European Parliament will vote on whether to proceed on a copyright proposal that some say will destroy the internet as we know it. That may sound fairly hyperbolic, but over 70 experts ...
Digital banking transformation creating new systemic risks
May 22nd, 2018
Digital banking transformation programmes are creating a new wave of operational and systemic risks for which the industry is ill-prepared, warns UK Finance. Sustainable Financial Services in the Digital Age, a joint report from UK Finance and Parker Fitzgerald, ...
Heightened cybersecurity roles for in-house lawyers as breaches increase
May 4th, 2018
New cybersecurity report reveals that In-house lawyers anticipate bigger roles and budgets as breaches increase. A new cybersecurity report, incorporating data from 617 in-house lawyers at 412 companies in 33 countries, reveals that In-house lawyers anticipate their role in ...
Europe’s new privacy law will change the web and more
April 16th, 2018
Consumers have long wondered just what Google and Facebook know about them, and who else can access their personal data. But internet giants have little incentive to give straight answers — even to simple questions like, “Why am I ...
The big bang for alternative legal services providers
February 21st, 2018
Will 2018 be the ‘big-bang’ year for the use of Alternative Legal Services providers, asks PwC’s Peter Workman? The current legal and regulatory environment is burdensome. General counsel and their legal teams are under ever increasing pressure to reduce legal ...
