by alix | Apr 10, 2026 | Banking, Technology
The decision has been made. You’ve signed the contract for a shiny new unified finance platform, and the promise of automated reporting and real-time visibility is finally within reach. But as any seasoned Finance Director knows, the bridge between the old world and...
by alix | Apr 3, 2026 | Banking, Risk, Tax
If you are a Finance Director or a Planning Manager, the words ‘Budgeting Season’ probably trigger a physiological response similar to a looming root canal. It’s the time of year defined by broken version control, ‘Sandbagging’ from department...
by alix | Mar 27, 2026 | Banking, HR, Risk, Services
This week’s blog is from one of our exhibitors, Paraglide: For a long time, accounts receivable sat in that part of finance everybody knew was important, but few people saw as especially strategic. It was the function that made sure invoices went out, payments...
by alix | Mar 20, 2026 | Banking, Services, Tax
This week’s guest blog is from one of our exhibitors, RSM: What is Project Snowball? Project Snowball is the internal name used by HMRC for its intervention, formally titled “VAT / Corporate Tax / Employment Duty Systems and Processes”. It is a...
by alix | Mar 13, 2026 | Banking, HR, Services
If you’ve attended a finance conference recently, you know the drill: forty minutes of a speaker’s career history, ten minutes of a sales pitch, and – if you’re lucky – one or two actionable insights on tax or technology buried at the very end. At...
by alix | Feb 27, 2026 | Banking, HR
For years, our financial lives have lived in ‘silos.’ Your mortgage was in one box, your pension in another, and your daily coffee budget in a third. If you wanted to see the big picture, you had to be your own accountant – logging into five different apps...
