Duo to transform banking industry backbone, Lloyds Banking Group as first client
LONDON and ARMONK, N.Y., Dec. 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Thought Machine, a UK based software company, today announced that IBM Services will be the global preferred implementation partner for Thought Machine’s cloud-native core banking platform called Vault. (more…)
Corporate directing in the UK has radically changed over the last 24 years yet some board conduct, such as the persistent under-representation of women on boards, has only changed marginally, a unique series of ESRC-funded studies reveals.
The research by Annie Pye, Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter Business School, is based on a series of interviews, which first took place in 1988, with directors who lead some of the UK’s largest listed companies, including Lloyds Banking Group, Marks & Spencer, and Prudential. Described by Sir Adrian Cadbury as “ground-breaking”, the research spans a period of significant change for British business, predating the first code of governance practice for UK companies, through to the present global economic crisis. (more…)
