Rachel Shields
Financial Services Trends: Key AI, Cybersecurity & Compliance Shifts
The financial services industry has always evolved, but 2025 marked a turning point in pace and execution. Together, sustained cost pressure, maturing platforms and greater regulatory clarity pushed banks from experimentation to execution. The year was defined by scale: embedding technology, strengthening cyber security, modernising core platforms and improving resilience. 2026 will be about leverage. […]
UK Autumn Budget 2025 Key Takeaways
With the Budget at last behind us after a long and unhelpful period of intense speculation and with fiscal headroom rebuilt businesses can now look forward with more certainty around the UK fiscal environment as they consider their investment plans including hiring. The Autumn Budget brought a renewed push to back innovation but also introduced […]
Why Culture, Not Brand, Wins the Best Risk & Compliance Talent
The pandemic changed how Risk & Compliance professionals think about their careers. Today’s candidates aren’t just chasing the biggest brand, the flashiest title, or even the highest salaries. They’re looking for something real: a culture where they can make a difference, have their voice heard, and build something meaningful. And that’s exactly where smaller, challenger firms […]
The Future of Active ETFs: Disrupting the Mutual Fund Landscape
The investment management industry stands at an inflection point. While traditional mutual funds have dominated active management for decades, a new paradigm is rapidly emerging that threatens to reshape the entire landscape. Active exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not merely growing—they are revolutionising how investors access professional portfolio management, challenging the very foundations upon which the […]
Procurement & Supply Chain – Market and Hiring Trends April 2025
Welcome to PSD’s review of the Procurement and Supply Chain sector. Here you will find our periodic review of the trends we are seeing and the placements we have made to give you an overview of the recruitment market. 2025 got off to a blistering start with several searches commissioned at senior and executive level […]
Plural Roles in the Boardroom
The profile of executives is changing, which is affecting the make-up of non-executive positions in the powerhouses of businesses across the country. If you’re after such a post, here’s to make the most of the opportunities that await. During the past few years we have seen a number of ‘out-of-sector’ appointments to key board positions, […]
Integrating Diversity
Harish Bhayani, founder and Senior Partner at PRM Diversity Consultants writes about the complexity of the diversity challenge and how to manage it. Despite decades of effort and huge expenditure by organisations and governments, successfully managing diversity in organisations remains difficult. This is because it is of course, all more complicated than was envisaged. In […]
Diversity Matters – The Value of Gender Diversity in Management Recruitment
Increased gender diversity in management recruitment can lead to greater innovation and wealth. A company’s success is largely down to the decisions made by its leaders, which is why the makeup of the leadership team is crucial. A diverse set of views increases innovation, helps to retain talent and builds group trust, while research suggests […]
Interview with Graham Davin, CEO of United Trust Bank
United Trust Bank CEO Graham Davin talks to psd about the opportunities and challenges he sees for for the bank over the next few years, and reveals his pivotal careers moments. United Trust Bank has grown considerably in the last five years, Congratulations. What are the biggest opportunities for you and UTB over the […]