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Lloyds Offers Cautious Optimism for UK Growth

Lloyds Offers Cautious Optimism for UK

In the FT today, Charlie Nunn, CEO of Lloyds Banking Group, argues that despite recent UK GDP contractions and warnings from the OBR about diminished economic resilience, the country is poised for growth if can avoid a decade of drift. He highlights rising business confidence, backed by

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Tech Debt to Tsunami from AI Fallout AI

Tech Debt to Tsunami from AI Fallout

The Executive Summary's latest pulse survey researched 150 global enterprise CEOs on their relationship with technology. Most studies focus on CIOs, but with the rise of AI, CEOs are pushing harder to drive the tech agenda themselves. Two Stats That Matter [more to be revealed]: * 68% of

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From Pilot to Pause: Why GenAI is Stalling AI

From Pilot to Pause: Why GenAI is Stalling

Gartner expects that 30 percent of GenAI projects will be abandoned by the end of this year. Why? Because the fundamentals don’t hold up. Poor data quality. Loose risk frameworks. Sky-high costs and unclear outcomes. Some companies are spending up to $20 million just to test something they

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The No-Grow-Zone Budget Growth

The No-Grow-Zone Budget

Entrepreneurs and CEOs are wincing at the critical hacks the bludgeoner budget slasher took to the economy yesterday. Rather than show any adherence to a growth narrative on establishing trade and bolstering inward investment , Rachel Reeves kicked the can down the road and instead took

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Did Asset Management Die? Why Gen Z Has Disconnected Growth

Did Asset Management Die? Why Gen Z Has Disconnected

Asset managers aren’t just being out-innovated, they’re being out-narrated. You only have to look at the volume of news stories on alternatives vs traditionals to see this is a media war as much as a product-performance one. Some 42 percent of Gen Z investors in the US hold crypto, which

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The UK Growth Crisis: When Builders Leave and the Middle Breaks Growth

The UK Growth Crisis: When Builders Leave and the Middle Breaks

The UK's economic narrative is being written in real time, but no one seems to agree on the plot. In a must-listen episode of The Diary of a CEO, host Steven Bartlett sits down with two men who represent opposing ends of Britain’s economic argument. On one side, Daniel Priestley, the

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The AI Boom: Innovation or Instability? AI

The AI Boom: Innovation or Instability?

One economist warns exaggerated expectations could drive interest rates to 16%, slow consumer spending and concentrate wealth among AI system owners. The promise of transformation is real, but so is the risk of economic imbalance. If you're not learning AI skills, you're almost certainly

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Crypto's marketing sucks... Growth

Crypto's marketing sucks...

Crypto’s Wild West... If the crypto world were a western, we’d be watching a country of outlaws with no sheriff in sight. Sure, people are finding gold, but keeping hold of it is another thing. I heard a horrifying story about a professional crypto trader who got chased from country to

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Hospitals 1: Entrepreneurs 0 Growth

Hospitals 1: Entrepreneurs 0

If you go to an Indian restaurant, you shouldn't expect fish and chips. Equally, if you order a Labour government, entrepreneurs can't expect support. The problem is - the Conservatives showed no love to them either. The UK needs investment and with such a huge Labour majority, it was

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The $125Bn Company You've Never Heard Of Growth

The $125Bn Company You've Never Heard Of

Hello working and non-working people How are you experiencing your new social British category? Let me tell you about a tech company you've probably never heard of that's worth more than Nike. ServiceNow is sitting at a casual $125 billion market cap, yet most people outside of tech have

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Is anyone looking out for entrepreneurs? Growth

Is anyone looking out for entrepreneurs?

By Nick Parminter, Chief Exec of Class 35 Rachel Reeves considers raising Capital Gains to 39% as well as scrapping or at least heavily reducing entrepreneurs relief. At the same time employment reforms will make it harder for businesses to alter headcount under the two years protected

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Unlocking DeFi: Opportunities for the Buy-Side in modern finance Growth

Unlocking DeFi: Opportunities for the Buy-Side in modern finance

Why DeFi? The Opportunities of Decentralised Finance on the Buy SideJoin us at The Club House, where business leaders from finance, DeFI and real-world asset sectors discuss disruption in the buy-side…Eventbrite Date and time Wed, 6 Nov 2024 17:00 - 19:00 GMT Location W1B 2AF5 Swallow

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