Visible female leadership and a commitment to gender equality can help propel progress towards gender parity in mid-market leadership. Read the full report to learn more about the value of visibility and the positive impact gender-balanced leadership can have. More voices. More visibility. More momentum.
The EBA has published the second phase of its IRRBB Heatmap Implementation, outlining medium- to long-term supervisory objectives for IRRBB and CSRBB. The update shifts the focus from remediation towards consistency and proportionality, with particular emphasis on the most recent results of SOT analysis, the monitoring of the 5-year cap on NMDs repricing profile, commercial margin modelling, CSRBB perimeter identification, and hedging strategies. In this article, we summarise the key supervisory observations and recommendations and what they mean in practice for financial institutions.
Explore what superintelligence really means, the risks, opportunities, and ethical challenges of AI surpassing human intelligence - and why the time to act is now.
Mid-market businesses should feel empowered to ask for better service from their bank, says the Swedish lender that is challenging established global players.
If you don’t want to deal with a communications crisis, make sure your corporate governance procedures are robust enough to prevent it in the first place
Insights on audit and its future in rapidly changing world. Follows a series of roundtables hosted by Grant Thornton and ACCA in seven countries.
Too many companies are failing to attract women to top positions, even though mixed-gender leadership teams deliver greater profits. How can we tackle this challenge?
The gender diversity issue has been on the business agenda for many years now, yet a third of businesses still have no women at a senior management level. Somewhere there is a disconnect.
The power of personalisation: Hotels’ roadmap to 2020
Whilst corporate tax avoidance continues to grab headlines, some of the biggest reforms are in fact occurring within indirect tax.
Companies that are comfortable with failure are more nimble, innovative and successful, says John Harmeling, chief marketing officer at Grant Thornton in the US
As businesses look to 2016 and beyond, this report considers the outlook for the global economy in 2016.
Being entrepreneurial and delivering mid-market sized turnover need not be mutually exclusive. Sweden’s Fontana Food has achieved the best of both worlds
Predicting the future need not be a stab in the dark. There are plenty of practical steps businesses can take to prepare for the challenges ahead.
Every business can benefit from the Internet of Things – just start small and choose wisely when deciding which operations you want to target.
India’s young, growing workforce and China’s ageing population put Asia’s two great economies at either end of the age dividend. Partners at Grant Thornton discuss the consequences for each of their countries.
Kenya’s economy is becoming more dynamic. For businesses seeking to expand, it could be the perfect stepping stone into the region.
Public Financial Management (PFM) is evolving from a narrow focus on budgeting towards a wider mandate as a key driver of policy and strategy across all levels of government, public services, state enterprises and public-private partnerships.
The 2015 Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR), a global survey of 2500 business leaders in 35 economies, has revealed that over the past 12 months more than 15% of businesses across the world have suffered a cyber attack, costing a total of more than $300 billion (link). That's just the measurable costs. Who knows what the reputational damage, loss of trust and custom adds up to.