A nationwide study of the financial wellbeing of UK workers ‘The DNA of Financial Wellbeing 2017’ report1, reveals that 31% cite finance as their biggest concern. However, nearly half of HR directors think that their employees biggest concern is work life balance (48%) and career development (43%), demonstrating a mis-alignment between employee and employer. The […]
Cambridge University Press and the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) recently announced that beginning in January 2018 Cambridge University Press will publish the SLS’s prestigious journal Legal Studies. Now in its 37th volume, Legal Studies is one of the UK’s premier peer-reviewed law journals. The journal publishes on a broad range of interests across all […]
FAIR Canada and CARP recently announced that they believe the proposed cooperative capital markets regulator (CCMR) is not in the interests of ordinary Canadians. FAIR Canada and CARP are of the view that such a major change to the current system of securities regulation must represent an improvement for Canadians. The CCMR does not accomplish […]
While over half of allocators said the debate around Trump's policy agenda will have little impact on their investment decisions, European allocators feel the increasing pressures of the European regulatory environment, the implications of Brexit and the nationalist movement are impacting asset allocation decisions in 2017. According to a recent survey from Context Summits, nearly […]
12,000 people, the majority of them lawyers, walked to raise funds for free legal advice services in London and the South East on May 22nd. The annual London Legal Walk has attracted the support of the whole of the legal profession, fundraising to enable Law Centres, local Citizens Advice and advice agencies to continue to […]
With cybercrime and ransom hacks being a common occurrence in today’s newsrooms, Karen Wheeler, VP UK Country Manager at Affinion talks to Lawyer Monthly about the opportunities that can arise from these kinds of threats, for the banking sector in particular. We’re living in a world where high profile data hacking scandals and cybercrime attacks […]
Any perceived shortage of appraisers may be location specific and dependent on whom you ask, but there is universal agreement that more needs to be done to keep appraisers in the profession and attract new talent. That's according to panelists at a property valuation forum at the 2017 Realtors Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo. The […]
Last weekLastLast week the US House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation that would update the federal government's technology and systems. The bill, known as the Modernizing Government Technology Act, was introduced by Congressmen Will Hurd, Robin Kelly, and Gerry Connolly. The US Senate is currently considering companion legislation introduced by Senators Jerry Moran and Tom […]
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has promised, in the run up to the snap general election next month, that by a conservative government workers’ rights would see a huge expansion, including a statutory right to leave for a relative’s care, and to leave for a parent whose child had passed. Also included in the promises […]
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