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Equality and Diversity

7 Tips for Workplace Equality & Diversity | Skillcast

5 minute read

Workplace discrimination remains a major concern for UK businesses. To help, we have produced 7 tips to help you promote equality and diversity in work.

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Business Skills

10 Easy Steps to Better Report Writing | Skillcast

2 minute read

Persuasive writing generates engagement, motivation and drives action. Improve your report-writing skills by following our 10 simple steps.

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Equality and Diversity

Workplace Gender Equality | Pay Gap Reporting | Skillcast

4 minute read

Discover strategies for workplace gender equality and gender pay gap compliance, with expert insights, free tools, and practical resources from Skillcast.

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Compliance News

Compliance News | February 2025 | Skillcast

21 minute read

This month's key compliance news includes banks' unlawful Bloomberg exchanges, OKX's AML fine, the FCA's email deletion policy, GSK's LinkedIn reprimand, and more.

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Financial Crime Risk Management

Fraud Risk Assessment | Prevention Strategies | Skillcast

4 minute read

Learn how to assess and minimise fraud risk with key strategies and tools. Explore expert tips, best practices, and free fraud prevention resources from Skillcast.

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Compliance News

Compliance News | January 2025 | Skillcast

18 minute read

This month's key compliance news includes American Express's fine, outages at Capital One and Citigroup, IT disruption at the British Museum, and more.

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Health and Safety Equality and Diversity

Top 10 Compliance Challenges in 2025 | Skillcast

35 minute read

It's that time again when we stare into a crystal ball and contemplate the year ahead. In 2025, we predict firms will encounter a myriad of challenges.

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Bribery and Corruption Financial Crime

8 Tips for your Gifts and Hospitality Policy | Skillcast

3 minute read

Giving and receiving gifts and hospitality is helps build business relationships. But you need a clear corporate policy to avoid bribery or corruption.

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Compliance News

Compliance News | December 2024 | Skillcast

12 minute read

This month's key compliance news includes McKinsey's bribery fine, Goldman's sex discrimination case, Adidas' tax raid, Shein's isotopic testing, and more.

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Compliance News

Compliance News | November 2024 | Skillcast

11 minute read

This month's key compliance news includes Metro Bank's AML fine, NatWest's WhatsApp ban, Attenborough's AI voice clone, competition fines for Meta and Teva and more.

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Health and Safety

9 Tips for Managing Stress at Work | Skillcast

3 minute read

Workplace stress appears in every job role, seniority and industry. Whilst you cannot always avoid it, you can learn how to manage stress at work better.

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Compliance News

Compliance News | September 2024 | Skillcast

14 minute read

This month's key compliance news includes FirstEnergy and Deere's bribery, Clearview AI's data fine, the fallout from the Slack hack, Nordic AML fines, SMCR woes, and more.

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Information Security GDPR

Special Category Data GDPR Best Practices | Skillcast

3 minute read

Collecting sensitive personal data has become a necessity for businesses. We explain what special category data is and how to stay GDPR compliant.

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Business Skills

8 Steps to Authentic Leadership | Skillcast

3 minute read

Authentic leadership isn't as easy as it sounds. Authenticity requires leaders to be true to themselves, regardless of the situation. We have tips to help.

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Business Skills Risk Management

7 Things to Consider When Whistleblowing | Skillcast

4 minute read

Whistleblowing is crucial to uncovering corporate misconduct. Understand the key factors to consider before blowing the whistle at work.

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Risk Management Compliance Strategy

10 Ways to Boost Compliance in Your Firm | Skillcast

3 minute read

Discover 10 simple ways to boost compliance in your firm and improve your reputation management.

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Compliance News

Compliance News | June 2024 | Skillcast

13 minute read

This month's key compliance news includes Wells Fargo dismissals, Mondelēz competition fine, Chiquita's terrorism funding, Dior and Adidas investigations, and more.

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Risk Management

10 Ways to Improve Risk Management at Work | Skillcast

4 minute read

You can't remove all risk, but you can work to contain and mitigate it. Use our 10 top tips to improve the culture of risk management in your company.

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Health and Safety

8 Steps to Safer Lifting & Handling | Skillcast

3 minute read

Manual handling injuries are a third of all UK work-related illnesses (HSE & NHS). Our tips will help you avoid injury by using safe lifting techniques.

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Compliance News

Compliance News | May 2024 | Skillcast

16 minute read

This month's key compliance news includes TD Bank's fine, the City's excessive working hours culture, Citi's 'fat finger' fine, Christie's cyberattack, and more.

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Compliance News

Compliance News | April 2024 | Skillcast

12 minute read

This month’s key compliance news includes an apology from Binance's 'CZ', Taylor Swift ticket scam, Commerzbank's AML fine, and more.

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Compliance News

Compliance News | March 2024 | Skillcast

13 minute read

This month’s key compliance news includes the Big Four's AI crackdown, Van's data breach, Duvel's cyberattack, Gregg's payment outage, and more.

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Equality and Diversity

10 Tips to Reduce Unconscious Bias at Work | Skillcast

3 minute read

Unconscious bias may lead to certain groups being treated less favourably or discriminated against. We have 10 tips on how to reduce bias in the workplace.

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Information Security GDPR

7 Ways to Protect Health Data under GDPR | Skillcast

3 minute read

Health data security is a topic that frequently makes headlines due to the rising threat of cyberattacks targeting healthcare systems.

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Information Security Financial Crime

10 Ways to Protect Staff From Identity Fraud | Skillcast

4 minute read

Stay one step ahead of the fraudsters by following our 10 top tips to ensure you don't fall victim to identity fraud.

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Health and Safety

6 Ways to Prevent Noise-induced Hearing Loss at Work |...

3 minute read

Are you exposed to loud noise on a day-to-day basis? Read this blog and follow our top tips on how to prevent noise-induced hearing loss at work.

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Information Security GDPR

8 GDPR Data Sharing Compliance Tips | Skillcast

3 minute read

Sharing of personal data by organisations within the EU is subject to the GDPR. We have 8 tips to help you stay compliant when sharing data.

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Compliance Strategy

Creating a Social Media Policy | Skillcast

3 minute read

As companies exploit the social media networks of their staff, risks increase and a social media policy becomes essential.

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Business Skills

How to Improve your Emotional Intelligence | Skillcast

3 minute read

By improving your emotional intelligence, you can better control how you and those around you react to stressful situations.

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Health and Safety

8 Driving at Work Safety Tips | Skillcast

3 minute read

Does your job require you to drive a vehicle a lot? Find out how you can improve safety when driving for work.

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Learning Strategy

Using Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning to Improve Outcomes |...

5 minute read

Want to make sure your training will work & the learning will stick? One answer is to the hierarchy described in Bloom's Cognitive Domain to help you plan.

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Equality and Diversity Business Skills

10 Steps to Conducting a Successful Interview | Skillcast

3 minute read

Interviews are an important part of recruitment, supplier selection and gauging opinions. Here are ten steps to conducting a successful interview.

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Equality and Diversity

14 Tips for Transgender Inclusion in the Workplace |...

4 minute read

Ensuring you have a gender identity-inclusive workplace is more important than ever. We've got some tips to help you get started.

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FCA Compliance Financial Crime

10 Ways to Prevent Insider Trading | Skillcast

4 minute read

The FCA is concerned insider trading risks are increasing as remote working becomes a norm. We have 10 tips to protect your firm from the consequences.

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Information Security Financial Crime

8 Tips for Protecting Cardholder Data | Skillcast

3 minute read

Cardholder fraud creates a compliance headache. We have some tips on how your business should deal with cardholder data to mitigate the risks.

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Information Security

10 Tips to Improve Data Security | Skillcast

4 minute read

Over 4.5 billion data records have been breached this year, with human error being the leading cause of breached records.

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Health and Safety Equality and Diversity

How to Tackle Workplace Violence | Skillcast

4 minute read

Workplace violence can be an everyday reality in some professions. We have some tips to spot the red flags, reduce risk and deal with it when it flares up.

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Financial Crime

Preventing Financial Sanctions Penalties | Skillcast

6 minute read

We examine the true cost of breaching financial sanctions. The highest-profile fines and settlements and tips on how your company can stay compliant.

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Information Security

Data Security when Travelling | Skillcast

2 minute read

Many keep working when travelling on public transport, but what are the risks? We have some tips to keep your data secure even while you are on the move.

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Health and Safety

Working Safely with Display Screen Equipment | Skillcast

4 minute read

Follow these top tips to make sure you are practising the correct safety techniques when using display screen equipment (DSE) for work.

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FCA Compliance

Financial Services Social Media Compliance | Skillcast

3 minute read

Financial firms are increasingly using social media to communicate information and promote products. But, how can you do so and stay compliant?

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Health and Safety Risk Management

Return to Work Training, Assessment & Checklist | Skillcast

7 minute read

To support companies as employees return to work in the wake of Covid-19, we have developed a free training module, employee assessment and checklist.

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Information Security GDPR

Legal Basis for Data Processing under GDPR | Skillcast

4 minute read

There are 6 legal bases for processing as set out in Article 6 of the GDPR. At least one of these must apply whenever you process personal data.

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Business Skills Learning Strategy

How to Improve your Training Presentation Skills | Skillcast

3 minute read

Improve your presentation skills at work by reading our top tips on how to deliver a winning presentation.

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GDPR

What Factors Influence GDPR Financial Penalties? | Skillcast

2 minute read

Understand the factors affecting the scale of financial penalties for breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Financial Crime

10 Ways to Prevent Invoice Fraud | Skillcast

3 minute read

Invoice fraud checklist - 10 ways to quickly and easily reduce the risk of invoice fraud across your organisation.

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Gamification Learning Strategy

Using Gaming Design Ideas to Enhance E-learning | Skillcast

3 minute read

Read this blog post and find out how you can take inspiration from gaming design to make for better elearning

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Business Skills Risk Management

12 Ways to Protect Your Online Reputation | Skillcast

5 minute read

A digital presence can bring significant benefits to your firm, but it also brings risks. We have 12 tips to protect your online reputation.

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Business Skills Risk Management

Can Employers Overcome the Bystander Effect? | Skillcast

5 minute read

Bystander apathy may stop witnesses speaking out about crimes. We have some tips for how to overcome this effect and maintain regulatory compliance.

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Business Skills

10 Tips for Handling Customer Complaints | Skillcast

3 minute read

UK businesses lose £37 billion a year because of poor customer service. Here are 10 tips for handling customer complaints to improve customer satisfaction.

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Business Skills

7 Steps to Manage Organisational Change Effectively |...

2 minute read

Change is everywhere and there is no avoiding it. By following a few simple steps, you can manage organisational change more effectively.

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Information Security Risk Management

Data Protection Compliance in Times of Disruption |...

4 minute read

In times of disruption, GDPR compliance is more challenging than ever. To help we've identified the key priorities and what to do to maintain compliance.

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Information Security

6 Tips to Reduce the Risk of Ransomware Attacks | Skillcast

5 minute read

Ransomware attacks have doubled in the UK in 2019, only the US now suffers more. We have some tips on how to reduce the risk of your company being attacked

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AML and CTF

Are UK Lawyers & Accountants Ignoring Money Laundering...

4 minute read

Accountants are turning a blind eye to money laundering according to the UK police lead on economic crime. Find out how to mitigate the risks for your firm

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Compliance News

Compliance News | 2018 Highlights | Skillcast

17 minute read

We've examined the top compliance news stories in 2018, from money laundering scandals and celebrity tax evasion to IT failures in financial services.

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Information Security

How To Protect Personal Data When Using Social Media |...

2 minute read

In light of the recent Facebook scandal, we examine the steps you should be taking to protect your personal data when using social media and apps.

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FCA Compliance

6 Tips to Avoid Financial Mis-selling | Skillcast

3 minute read

The UK financial services industry has been hit with billions in fines as a result of mis-selling products. We have some tips to avoid another scandal.

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FCA Compliance

5 Ways to Avoid Conflicts of Interest with Customers |...

3 minute read

Read this blog post and follow our top tips to be sure you put your customer needs first ahead of the introduction of MiFID II.

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FCA Compliance

How to Achieve MiFID II Compliance | Skillcast

5 minute read

MiFID arrived in response to the market crash. Following the PPI scandal, it was strengthened with the introduction of MiFID II. Understand the changes.

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FCA Compliance

5 Steps to Take for Direct Electronic Access | Skillcast

2 minute read

Read this blog pot to find out the steps you should be taking to prepare for direct electronic access (DEA) under MiFID II.

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FCA Compliance

Key High Frequency Algorithmic Trading Controls | Skillcast

3 minute read

Understand high frequency algorithmic trading (HFAT) and the 5 key controls you need in light of the MiFID II regime.

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FCA Compliance

How to Ensure MiFID Data Retention Compliance | Skillcast

3 minute read

Follow our five steps and make sure your business are compliant with MiFID II's upcoming data retention rules

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Business Skills

7 Tips for Better Negotiation at Work | Skillcast

2 minute read

How do you rate your negotiation skills? Read this blog post and follow the 7 top tips to ensure you carry out more successful negotiations.

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