If you work with service-level agreements, you could be making at least one of these five common mistakes: Undefined or poorly defined objectives and metrics in service-level agreements (SLAs). One of the most common mistakes when drafting an SLA is not having a clear understanding of what the agreement should achieve. Objectives and metrics should […]
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Introduction: What is Enterprise Risk Management? Enterprise risk management is the process of identifying, assessing, and managing risks to the organization. It is a systematic approach to identify the sources of risk that can affect an organization’s objectives. Risk management is a process which identifies and analyzes possible events, quantifies their probability and impact on
Introduction: What is Procurement? Procurement is the process of obtaining goods, services, and supplies for an organization. It can be defined as the act of buying. The procurement process is often broken down into three main phases: Planning and Preparation, Solicitation and Award, and Contract Administration. In the planning and preparation phase, a buyer will
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Introduction: What is Corporate Compliance? Compliance is the act of ensuring that a company follows the law. This includes all laws, regulations, and policies that are relevant to the company. Compliance is a broad concept that takes into account many different areas of business. It includes everything from ethical behavior to regulatory compliance. Compliance is
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Introduction: What is Digital Banking? Digital banking is a new way of banking that has been introduced to the market. It is a form of online or mobile banking. Digital banking allows customers to bank on their own terms and from their own devices. Some people may have heard about digital banking, but they don’t
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What is money laundering? Money laundering is the introduction of illegally obtained money into the banking system, or using the banking system to illegally hide legitimate currency. Currency that was lawfully obtained, use of this is in areas like tax evasion. So to repeat, there are two sources of money laundering: 1) Is taking illegal
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In this video, I share one strategy for freelancers, service providers and knowledge experts to get paid what you’re worth and stop racing to the bottom trying to compete with low-cost competitors. Alright, thanks for joining us today. So today I’m going to be talking about how to get paid what you’re worth. So if
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In this video clip, our business operations & supply chain expert, shares some details about the biggest challenges in Supply Chain Management today:
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Problem: This major European bank needed to get their commodities trading team up-to-speed on areas such as: Commodities derivatives Understanding their clients’ key business drivers Understanding the commodities markets Understanding REPOs Solution: We designed a tailored programme to help them achieve all of the above outcomes with a carefully selected instructor from our panel of
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Problem: The procurement team of a major food manufacturer saw how the prices of their main raw ingredients they regularly purchased fluctuated so much making their business highly vulnerable to large price fluctuations due to the commodities markets. Unfortunately, the client could not pass on these price increases/fluctuations to their customers, meaning the business had
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It’s a sad trend that many big box retailers (and small retailers) are seeing massive shift in consumer behaviour. In a retail environment that is dominated by Amazon and everyone else is suffering, how is Best Buy thriving? [Read on to find out]
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I’m a huge proponent of working to your natural preferences (I’m a natural Introvert). Despite the fact the world is majority catered to Extroverted people, the increasing awareness of how both types work differently is really nice to see. Here’s a nice article on how both types can create a more productive environment whicever type
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Thinking about implementing a chatbot for your banking business? Here’s a case with Bank of America where a chatbot has a positive effect on the business. Chatbots are definitely here to stay and will only grow in usage. [Read more here]
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Procurement is one of the hottest trending job and career I’ve seen in the last few years. It’s a business function that is becoming highly specialized and seen as a value-added function to more and more enterprises. However, despite conventional thinking the most established or the most common procurement certification courses may not be the
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…the “in-thing” to do these days is content marketing. Trying to produce an endless stream of content (blog posts, articles, tweets, videos, article sharing, etc) in the hopes that potentially a prospective client see this content and does business with you. Reality is keeping up this kind of content production is tedious work. I call
A set morning routine is very important to the success of an entrepreneur. This article contains a list of things that are believed to benefit entrepreneurs. Getting up early helps you gather your thoughts so that you’re not rushing out the door with a storm in your head. Exercise and meditation are both helpful practices
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See how adopting more social media may be the very move you need to stay relevant in today’s market place
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As the CEO of your company, you are the driving force, the life, the breath…but when the weekends come, make sure to give breath to your employees by letting them live their lives away from the office.
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Crunch time – again – for Greece: Greeks went to the polls on 25 January 2015 and the stakes are high. At the top of the agenda is debt relief after years of crippling austerity. There are those who say staying with euro is a death sentence for generations to come. Others claim maybe Athens
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Here’s a very helpful video breaking down the different types of customers and customer segments a business may have. Steve Blank uses Google as a very helpful model here, and it becomes quite informative for your own businesses and strategies for the coming year. Take a look at: Users, Payers and Multi-Sided Markets
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Dr. Skrekas, one of our expert trainers on International Business Law, is interviewed for Russia Today about the protests taking place across Europe on the International Labor Day, May 1. The discussion analyzes the devastating policy mistakes by the EU and the long term period required for recovery.
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Dr. Skrekas, one of our expert trainers on International Business Law, is interviewed for Russia Today about the consequences of financial assistance to Ukraine by the Troika and compares the outcomes and possibilities from the disastrous Greek experience.
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You might be expecting a list of top financial modeling course providers but that’s not what I’m going to do here. (I would probably be biased anyways). What I will do is give you some tips on how to select the best financial modelling course for YOU. I’ll share with you what I’ve found most
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As the world slowly recovers from a tremendous financial and economic shock (still very much being felt around the globe), market volatility is a major factor affecting companies as they attempt to improve their financial planning, budgeting and forecasting processes. So what better way to improve these financial fundamentals than to look at the seven
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In this Finance for NonFinance sample video lesson, we introduce you to financial statements.
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In this Finance for Non-Finance sample video lesson, we give you an introduction to Operational Gearing.
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In this webinar, ALM expert talks about the top 10 challenges and their key drivers in Asset & Liability Management today.
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In this webinar, our Treasury Management expert – Chris Danielewski, talks about the top 10 challenges and key drivers in Treasury Management today.
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If you want to know how to gain more business out of your existing client relationships, here’s our list of top ten tips for outstanding client relationship management:
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Further to our previous post about 5 Tips on How To Recruit a Talented Finance Team, we thought we’d add some more to the list. Everyone knows that there is an employment problem in the US, UK and Europe. Many people are underemployed, unemployed, or even over skilled and underpaid. For the foreseeable future, the
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Hiring in the current economy may seem like shooting fish in a barrel since there are so many job applications swimming about, but finding the right finance team members to make your company or corporation a success can be difficult. Just because somebody is talented at finance doesn’t mean that he or she will be
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Every business needs to invest enough time and energy in ensuring disruption free cash flow, both short term cash flow and long term funding. The liquidity of a business may change in line with market conditions and also as and when the business itself undergoes change (for example, with expansion plans). A liquidity crunch impacts
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In this video lesson, our risk & fraud expert, Richard Barr, talks about which type of fraud is riskiest: internal or external fraud?
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In this video lesson, Richard Barr, explains the common misconception between Enterprise Risks and other types of risks such as operations risk and credit risk.
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Here’s a recent interview with one of our risk management experts, Mr. Richard Barr. Richard talks about the future of the Greek Banking sector, European Banking sector and the future of the EURO and Eurozone.
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A recent Inc.com article talks about the recent acquisition of Instagram by Facebook and how Mark Zuckerberg had negotiated the deal on his own without consulting with the board of Facebook.
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In a recent article by the Financial Times, the articles states that the impending Basel III capital requirements seriously hinder banks when it comes to trade finance lending.
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In a recent article, a senior finance professional talks about how financial professionals are like products and that it’s important to build up yourself as a “personal brand”.
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Here’s a free sample from our Introduction to Financial Modelling in Excel online course on using IFs and Nested IFs:
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MSNBC recently reported that banks are starting to get back to basics and focusing more on their lending businesses as trading business declines in the wake of present market conditions in the US and Europe.
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In today’s work environment, not only do you have to deal with being tied to your email inbox, you have mobile phones where people can reach you all hours of the day but you also have deal with incivility at work from other co-workers.
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As profits in the financial services industry contract, so too the large bonuses doled out to banking staff. Many banks are now only giving bonuses to the best performers at their firms so it’s become increasingly important to turn yourself into a high-performer.
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In a recent article on CareerBuilder, they polled 3,000 hiring managers in the US about their hiring plans for 2012. One of the trends that was indicated by their poll is that Employers want to close the skills gap of their employees through training.
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With the US Federal Reserve planning to stress test six US banks against a hypothetical European debt crisis scenario, a key issue on everyone’s minds in the financial industry is that how well would your bank perform if put through a stress test? Presently, Canadian banks seem to be in a good position and have
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The news is making it’s way around today about the latest rogue trader, this time to hit UBS, which has cost the Swiss bank approximately US$2bn (£1.3bn). Just another reminder that the importance of risk management is something that an organisation can never be complacent about. Even with banks putting more focus on risk management
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