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Coping with work in a post-layoff environment

Kirstie McDermott Senior Content Editor at Amply

Coping with work in a post-layoff environment

This year’s round of hiring slowdowns, freezes, and layoffs within the tech sector haven’t just affected those who have lost their jobs. The employees left behind have in many cases had to pick up the pieces as projects get dropped, headcounts are culled and belts tighten across companies. So far, fintech, crypto and real estate have taken the bru...

22 July 2022 /people

Bridging the gender gap - is UK fintech finally catching up?

Amanda Kavanagh Contributor at Jobbio

Bridging the gender gap - is UK fintech finally catching up?

Fintech has the potential to widen fair and equitable access to financial services, but as recent reports show, there’s still a long way to go to bridge the gender gap. Inside fintech organisations things are changing, but barriers still exist. A June 2022 report from EY shows that 76% of women working in the sector believe their firm is inclusive ...

14 July 2022 /people

Amanda Kavanagh Contributor at Jobbio

The best paying UK jobs in fintech

As we hurtle towards a cashless future – a future vastly accelerated by Covid-19 – it’s an exciting time to work in the banking and finance sector. Traditional banking systems have been disrupted by digital-only banks. Mobile wallet services such as Apple Pay and Google Pay are now mainstream, as are payment apps like Monzo and Revolut, and invest...

08 July 2022 /people

Here’s how to negotiate like a pro at work

Amanda Kavanagh Contributor at Jobbio

Here’s how to negotiate like a pro at work

Perfecting the art of negotiation is important in all walks of life, but particularly in the workplace. While most people sharpen their skills around annual review time, a well-honed negotiation approach can serve you well year-round. So whether you’re seeking a promotion, more flexibility, a title change, a lateral move, a change in reporting, la...

01 July 2022 /people

Benefits for parents working in fintech – what’s on offer?

Amanda Kavanagh Contributor at Jobbio

Benefits for parents working in fintech – what’s on offer?

Parents all over the world are familiar with the concept of working like you have no kids, and parenting like you have no job. But things are changing. Modern companies, like those in fintech, are prioritising benefits for parents and carers, and employees are becoming more informed on what to ask for. From a day-to-day point of view, having a fle...

24 June 2022 /people

Diversity and inclusion: Are you working for an industry leader?

Retired Member

Diversity and inclusion: Are you working for an industry leader?

The Diversity and Inclusion movement (D&I) has become a powerful agent of change in the workplace over the last ten years. Thanks to campaigns such as Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, honest and, in some cases, transformative conversations around workplace diversity, equity, equality, and inclusion are now an essential part of the tapestry of ou...

16 June 2022 /people

4 ways HR strategies can help fintechs succeed

Kirstie McDermott Senior Content Editor at Amply

4 ways HR strategies can help fintechs succeed

In a rapidly scaling fintech, at the scrappy startup stage, when there’s a huge amount at stake and an even bigger amount of other startups in the sector competing for VC funding, the most talented staff as well as customers, it can be really easy to kick some things down the road. Like onboarding a HR department, for example. But getting this pie...

27 May 2022 /people

Barry McCall Journalist at Jobbio

Tackling the tech talent crunch

Tech talent shortages are nothing new. The global tech industry has been lamenting a lack of talent for a long time and the imbalance between supply and demand has led to IT professionals enjoying quite stellar salary packages. But the talent squeeze has been tightening in recent years and is set to get much worse in the coming decade if industry ...

20 May 2022 /people

Banks are winning the war for talent and employees are the victors

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Banks are winning the war for talent and employees are the victors

It seems almost quaint now how animated we used to get about feisty Fintechs taking on lumbering legacy banks. These days the distinctions have blurred. Digitisation, accelerated by the pandemic, has consumed everything from cashless payments to KYC compliance. As a result the line where pillar bank stops and disruptive challenger starts is less cl...

13 May 2022 /people

Salary scales indicate it’s a great time to be in tech

Barry McCall Journalist at Jobbio

Salary scales indicate it’s a great time to be in tech

Demand for skilled IT professionals continues to rise with no sign of a let up. Specialist roles like scrum master, DevOps engineers, and network cloud architects are no longer the sole preserve of the software industry as organisations across the world accelerate their digitalisation programmes in response to the changed market landscape and alte...

06 May 2022 /people

IFGS 2022: Home Office's Philippa Rouse on the scale-up visa

Finextra Research Writer at Finextra

IFGS 2022: Home Office's Philippa Rouse on the scale-up visa

Philippa Rouse, Director, Future Border & Immigration System Directorate, Home Office, spoke at the Innovate Finance Global Summit – the flagship event of UK FinTech Week – where she discussed the Home Office’s latest plans on the scale-up visa and getting more overseas talent into the UK FinTech sector. Her key updates included: Scale-Up Bu...

05 April 2022 /people

Andrew Smith Founding CTO at RTGS & ClearBank

Agile Series: Diversity of thought

Diversity is a big issue, one that challenges most organisations, and with ESG becoming increasingly important, it is becoming hard for regulated institutions to hide from their responsibilities. Now I personally don’t see it as a responsibility, I see diversity, and by that, I mean all aspects of diversity, as an opportunity to do things better, ...

30 March 2022 /people

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