Star studded cast discusses how Artificial Intelligence can save the markets (and our jobs)
Once the stuff of science fiction, top experts like Dr Paul Hofmann believes that AI can help companies to be clever like Amazon or Apple – even if you only sell toothpaste
An Aviva believer
It didn’t take long for Aviva’s newest recruit [soon to be their CEO for the substantial UK business] to win us over. Trevor Matthews is an experienced businessman who understands the global financial services markets better than most, having led a handful of impressive organizations in Australia, North America and the UK over the last
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Strategic sales team supported by yBC for multi hundred million dollar deal
A team of business development specialists at yBC has just come off “high alert” after delivering a key piece of work to a pen-European client. Our client, an outsourcing and technology business, has been in the midst of pitch to a global financial services leader. The pitch took place earlier this week in the three
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A new resource for finance directors
The editorial team at yBC is pleased to announce the launch of a new channel focused on issues of interest to finance directors of mid-sized companies. The channel, FD.TV, has been launched with the support of the Access Group. Preliminary interviews have already been taken place. Interviewees include Sara Daw, MD of the FD Center,
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Latest video statistics: video rules OK
Most people understand/agree that video is a powerful communications medium. Over the last few years, various studies have highlighted the power of video, including the incredible fact that video is the most popular form of communication online with more people spending time watching videos than updating their social media profiles, blogging or anything else for
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Planning for the future
It’s not unusual to have numerous financial planning experts in the City of London on one day. After all, many of the world’s leading authorities on financial planning and more generally financial services are based within a square mile, thanks to London City’s town planning, or perhaps lack of it. But it is quite significant
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yBC teams up with leading London law firm Mishcon de Reya
Last week, yBC launched a series of new channels in conjunction with leading London law firm Mishcon de Reya, and the initial feedback from our partners and their key stakeholders is excellent. On Friday night we asked Mishcon de Reya’s business development director Elliot Moss for reaction, via his mobile phone, as he finished the
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Double digit industry beating campaign results
We’re probably not as good as we should be at blowing our own trumpets – largely because we don’t have time to draw breath. Once again, we’ve achieved some incredible results for a client, and this time I’m taking the time to share the good news. In short, we ran two campaigns for our client.
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It’s official: McKinsey finds web 2.0 pays off
A new report in McKinsey Quarterly finds networked enterprises perform better when it comes to market share gains, operating profits and market leadership. In The rise of the networked enterprise: Web 2.0 finds its payday, McKinsey finds: “statistically significant evidence that technology-enabled collaboration with external stakeholders helps organizations gain market share from the competition. They
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A fresh taste of BlackBerry
It’s five days since I got back from interviewing around 20 of Europe’s best BlackBerry app developers. Exciting is the only word I can think of to describe the ways they are putting BlackBerry to work – everything from mobile policing to e-government to production management. The people I spoke to were finalists in the
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