Nathan Bissitt, Author at Business Ideas UK

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UKFI chief Holbourn takes top job at RBS

ByNathan BissittMay 4, 2018

The City executive who has spent the last two years managing taxpayers’ stake in Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is to join the state-backed lender in one of its most senior posts. Sky News has learnt‎ that Oliver Holbourn, who has just stepped down as chief

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Why Argentina's economy is in trouble again

ByNathan BissittMay 4, 2018

This wasn’t supposed to be happening to Argentina. The election, three years ago, of the moderniser Mauricio Macri as president was hailed as proof that what was once Latin America’s richest economy was getting back on its feet. Now, after the

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McCluskey survives union leadership challenge

ByNathan BissittMay 4, 2018

The head of Britain’s biggest union has survived an attempt to force a rerun of the election that saw him reinstated as leader last year. Len McCluskey, leader of Unite, was re-elected to his post after enjoying a narrow win over Gerard Coyne, who was the

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Jacques Vert owner enters administration

ByNathan BissittMay 4, 2018

The womenswear group behind Jacques Vert has gone into administration putting 1,000 UK high street jobs at risk, it has been confirmed. Calvetron Brands blamed “extremely difficult” retail conditions as it called in Duff & Phelps to oversee the process

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Be a market disrupter and be your own boss

ByNathan BissittMay 4, 2018

Home Instead Senior Care’s franchisees have a passion to be market disrupters in the senior homecare space under the quality brand. The network is made up of local business leaders who care to influence. Owners are thought leaders on the topic of our time – care with

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FCA seeks to set free 'mortgage prisoners'

ByNathan BissittMay 4, 2018

The City watchdog is calling for reforms to help “mortgage prisoners” who are stuck on high borrowing rates but not allowed to switch. Tens of thousands of home owners who took out loans before the financial crisis are trapped on lenders’ standard

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HSBC posts surprise fall in quarterly profits

ByNathan BissittMay 4, 2018

HSBC has posted an unexpected fall in first quarter profits as it ramped up spending to beef up its presence in the key markets of UK and China. Shares fell 2% after the bank said pre-tax profits were 4% lower than the same period last year at $4.8bn despite a 6%

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Twitter user? You should change your password

ByNathan BissittMay 3, 2018

Twitter has told its more than 330 million users to change their passwords after a computer bug was identified. It meant some passwords were stored in plain text on its internal computer system. The problem was related to Twitter’s use of “hashing”

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Former VW boss 'charged' in US over dieselgate

ByNathan BissittMay 3, 2018

The former chief executive of Volkswagen (VW) Martin Winterkorn has been charged in the US in connection with the so-called ‘dieselgate’ emissions scandal. According to documents filed in a district court in Detroit, he and a number of other executives are

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Flu season helps leave Smith & Nephew cold

ByNathan BissittMay 3, 2018

With the population ageing in most rich countries round the world, these should in theory be bumper times for Smith & Nephew, Europe’s largest maker of artificial knees, shoulders and hips. Unfortunately, the company – a member of the FTSE-100 since