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Survival tactics for hybrid working: A guide

Aoibhinn Mc Bride Content Editor at Jobbio

Survival tactics for hybrid working: A guide

Do you feel as though you are constantly wading through a never-ending sea of video call requests? Or maybe you feel disconnected from your colleagues—figuratively and literally—and are struggling to collaborate on projects, and would much rather you were left alone to focus in peace and complete tasks solo. While hybrid work has afforded many pos...

12 April 2024 /people

Climate anxiety on the rise as environmental crisis looms on the horizon

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Climate anxiety on the rise as environmental crisis looms on the horizon

Global warming, environmental catastrophes, and natural disasters are becoming more commonplace globally. With the climate crisis looming above our heads, there has been a serious negative impact on the general public’s mental health. Along with fear, hopelessness is encroaching on minds globally, with climate anxiety affecting people on a daily ba...

03 April 2024 /people

80% of IT and tech companies will not meet their annual targets in 2024

Aoibhinn Mc Bride Content Editor at Jobbio

80% of IT and tech companies will not meet their annual targets in 2024

While mass layoffs haven’t dominated the headlines in Q1 of 2024 the way they did in 2022 and 2023, the tech industry remains in a precarious position and isn’t out of the woods just yet. That’s according to a recent study commissioned by Gong, a revenue intelligence platform, which established that 80% of tech companies in the UK and US have fail...

29 March 2024 /people

Why savvy job seekers are looking to regtech

Amanda Kavanagh Contributor at Jobbio

Why savvy job seekers are looking to regtech

Lax controls in crypto and fintech companies resulted in global fines of $5.8bn last year, eclipsing fines to the entire traditional banking system by a considerable amount. According to fintech software leader Fenergo, fines in the traditional banking group amounted to $834m comparatively. Of that $5.8bn sum, $4.3bn was the well-reported US crim...

15 March 2024 /people

Why cybersecurity skills are coveted in fintech

Aoibhinn Mc Bride Content Editor at Jobbio

Why cybersecurity skills are coveted in fintech

Despite mass layoffs dominating the headlines in 2022 and 2023, tech professionals are still in high demand. In areas such as AI and cybersecurity, those with the necessary skills and experience are becoming increasingly important for companies safeguarding not only their products and services but customer experience, now and in the future. In the ...

01 March 2024 /people

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Here's how to get hired at Sonovate

Our Breaking into Fintech series presents those looking to get hired in the fintech industry an insight into what skills and values fintech businesses are prioritising in the current market. This time Finextra heard from Elise Lockyer, chief people officer at Sonovate, an invoicing financing solutions company which recently launched internationally...

19 February 2024 /people

Why are British workers experiencing low engagement at work?

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Why are British workers experiencing low engagement at work?

Employee engagement is a hot topic right now, and rightly so. According to Gallup’s latest State of the Global Workplace report, UK worker engagement is just 8%, compared to 10% in Europe, 33% in North America, and 21% globally. These abysmally low scores suggest that the majority of workforces in Western European countries are sitting, wishing, w...

16 February 2024 /people

Here’s how to get hired at Gresham Technologies

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Here’s how to get hired at Gresham Technologies

Our Breaking into Fintech series looks into what leading fintech companies are seeking in new hires, to give job-searchers an edge when joining the industry. This time around, Finextra interviewed Tamsyn Cole, director of people and culture at Gresham Technologies, a software company that specialises in reconciliation tools and regulatory reporting...

07 February 2024 /people

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Here’s how to get hired at Flutterwave

In the latest of our Breaking into Fintech series, which dives into the other end of the fintech hiring market and learns from leading companies in the field, Finextra interviewed Flutterwave’s chief people and culture officer, Mansi Babyloni, and associate vice president of talent management, Reni Odebiyi. Flutterwave is a Nigerian fintech compa...

01 February 2024 /people

Diversity in tech: Why Gen Z is facing an employment crisis

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Diversity in tech: Why Gen Z is facing an employment crisis

The technology and financial services industry have had ongoing issues with maintaining diversity within the workforce. Women and ethnic minorities are often under-represented in fintech and banking alike. Wiley Edge’s Diversity in Tech Report 2023 dove into how Gen Z is treated in the tech industry and how diversity in tech can be encouraged. Nume...

29 January 2024 /people

Which fintech founders are billionaires?

Dominique Dierks Content Manager at Finextra

Which fintech founders are billionaires?

Last month, City Index released a list of top 10 youngest UK billionaires in 2023. Revolut founder Nik Storonsky emerged in second place, highlighting not just the decreasing age of today’s super-rich, but also the growing wealth emerging from fintechs. Digitisation, evolving consumer demands, and pandemic-induced shifts in the way people save, i...

26 January 2024 /people

Amanda Kavanagh Contributor at Jobbio

5 promising GenAI start-ups in the UK

Every industry seems to be on an AI gold rush at the moment, as the ever-evolving technology continues to dominate discussions around the future of work. Currently, what’s frequently making mainstream headlines is when AI goes rogue. Most recently, this was a DPD chatbot swearing, and even writing a poem about the company being the “worst delivery ...

26 January 2024 /people

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