EU plans to exempt smallest firms from having to draw up annual accounts came under fire from a leading European small business group yesterday (10 March), claiming it will distort the internal market without cutting red tape.
The European ... continue
International Woman's Day was ushered in triumphantly as Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Director. The corporate world managed to take the shine off the success as the World Economic Forum ... continue
Insurers are refusing to renew cover for Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) and Lloyds TSB staff, as fears grow over job losses in financial services.
Hitachi Capital, which has 330,000 UK customers, refused to renew a Lloyds TSB ... continue
With the global financial crisis putting the spotlight on "casino capitalism" of the West, leading scholars and experts from the Arab world on Thursday (Feb 4) pitched for interest-free Islamic banking as a solution and its introduction ... continue
Some of us work for male bosses and some of us work for female bosses. Surely people would say that men lead better than women especially in the business world.
However, women can be great leaders as well, when given the right position. There are some female traits that are helpful when dealing with all sorts of problems in an organisation.
If ... continue
International Woman's Day was ushered in triumphantly as Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Director. The corporate world managed to take the shine off the success as the World Economic Forum (WEF) released a report criticising businesses around the world for failing to close the gender gap.
This came as the Prime Minister said it was "unacceptable" that there were UK firms without any female board representation and added that if nothing changed "we will need to consider taking more serious action". The WEF yesterday released its Corporate Gender Gap Report, a study into some ... continue
With the global financial crisis putting the spotlight on "casino capitalism" of the West, leading scholars and experts from the Arab world on Thursday (Feb 4) pitched for interest-free Islamic banking as a solution and its introduction in India, home to the world's largest Muslim minority. Tracing the genesis of the global meltdown to "greed and unscrupulousness" of financiers and speculators in the West, Umar Chapra, adviser Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah, said the crisis resulted from "excessive and imprudent lending."Islamic finance puts emphasis on equity and justice. Islam discourages debt and the charging of interest on debt," Chapra said at ... continue
