There’s currently about £3T invested in UK pensions, but many of us barely think twice about where all this money is going. Pension management feels opaque and uninteresting – it’s something that we don’t always feel involved in, even though it's our money that’s at stake.
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Florence Wildblood
24.09.2020
This week Caroline Franczia of Uppercut first looks into the secret of the elite Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor school that opened in 1969, more commonly known as the ‘Top Gun’ training program to draw the parallels with revenue top achievers and the required skills to manage, train, develop and retain such category of risk-taking hot-shot elite.
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Caroline Franczia
24.09.2020
Maddyness spoke to Jacqueline Bourke, Getty Images & iStock Head of EMEA Creative Insights. Getty has had a team for 25 years focusing on learning the insights and trends of brands and advertisers.
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Cleo McGee
23.09.2020
SPACEbands is a revolutionary product that aids and monitors social distancing in various environments. Maddyness spoke with Ronan Finnegan Co-founder to understand how two entrepreneurs went from concept to launch during lockdown and what the future holds.
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Ronan Finnegan
23.09.2020
Today Finch Capital issued its annual State of European fintech report for 2020. The report covers a range of topics impacting the fintech industry: where we are today; the impact of CV-19; the M&A conundrum; and trends the Finch Capital team anticipates will shape FinTech in 2021. This follows an analytical report published in April of this year titled ‘FinTech: The Future Post CV-19’.
22.09.2020
Data and information clog up the lives of financial market traders. Details are missed and nuances remain unseen. Could technology make these jobs even easier? Maddyness spoke with Richard Edwards of startup Drake Howell to discover that they might just have the answer.
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Simon Lovick
22.09.2020
Let me ask you a philosophical question: Why did you start your own company in the first place? I really want you to think about the answer. Too many entrepreneurs don’t, and when they realise that they’re building their business from someone else’s blueprints, they lack either the fortitude or the experience to reverse course.
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Joe Procopio
22.09.2020
Google has pledged to run its operations entirely from carbon-free energy by 2030, while announcing that it has also eliminated its historic carbon footprint through the purchase of high-quality offset assets. The tech company intends to bring 5GW of carbon-free energy online in order to use renewable energy for all of its offices, campuses and data centres at all times by 2030, rather than purchasing renewable power to offset emissions.
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Marc Height
21.09.2020
We’ve all heard of ‘wellbeing’ in the personal sense, but how does that translate when we look at the investor landscape? The combination of impact investment and philanthropy, even sharing expertise with another brings about 'wealthbeing' – using ones wealth to have a positive impact on society and/or the environment, something investors should be looking to integrate into their portfolios now and firmly into the 2020s.
21.09.2020
By capturing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on infant businesses in the UK throughout Q2, we can track financial distress, sector-specific struggles and compare month-on-month statistics as the economy continues to battle the harsh consequences of COVID-19 and enters into a new phase of recovery.
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Jonathan Munnery
21.09.2020
Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup ecosystem. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
18.09.2020
A Sheffield company whose smart sensing technology helps industry to reduce costs has raised £1.1M from NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia and is part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.
17.09.2020
Dr Mark Kilgallon weighs in on why he believes authentic, emotionally connected leaders are at the forefront of their professions.
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Cleo McGee
16.09.2020
Findr is a revolutionary networking and matching platform for businesses helping companies of all sizes cut down the time and effort it takes to connect with each other. Maddyness spoke with Greg Watts, Founder & CEO of Findr, set to launch in Q4 about how they have coped during lockdown and what the future holds.
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Greg Watts
16.09.2020
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