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As an existing partner, we are delighted to announce our involvement with today’s launch of the DIFC FinTech Hive Programme: AccelerateHer. The programme is promoting female leadership in Financial Services and runs from April to November 2019. Ian Jenkins Carter Murray’s Head of MENA is involved in leading the initiative and the breakfast launch today. Firms have nominated ...

Earlier this month, my Emirates ID and UAE Residence Visa expired after my first three years in the country. It seemed like a natural prompt to reflect on my experience of living in this wonderful, mad city. This article follows one I wrote a year into my time in the UAE where I reflected on the reality of being an expat here versus my expectations. The reasons I moved to Du...

How do you define confidence, particularly in the workplace? Cambridge dictionary defines the word as “the quality of being certain of your abilities or of having trust in people, plans, or the future”, however I believe it means much more than that. I believe confidence is knowing and believing in myself (my strengths as well as my weaknesses) and knowing that I am capable ...

How do you define confidence, particularly in the workplace? It is the energy we convey when we have belief in our capabilities and values. It requires that we are not being forced to act in an unnatural way. How do you think the confidence gap affects women? It acts on women when they have to over-play their strengths. I think it is a general lack of bravado or a willingnes...

With the ever changing landscape of the retail market in the Middle East and a lot of reports that trade has either been in decline or flat for a lot of groups or brands across the region, I thought it would be worth looking at the brands that seem to have it right, or those that have just launched into the market with a fresh approach. Although I am a head hunter that speci...

October 17, 2018 - Carter Murray, part of The SR Group, has been recognised as the one of the ‘Most Socially Engaged staffing agency’ globally by LinkedIn. We are pleased to announce that we have, for the third year since its inception, been ranked in the top 25 Most Socially Engaged global staffing agencies. From a list of over 38,000 recruitment business LinkedIn used a co...

PWC’s Global Fintech Report 2017 shows that 77% of Fintech executives expect to adopt blockchain as part of an in production system or process by 2020. In other words, it’s moving “out of the lab” and into day-to-day systems. It is still early days for many, though. The report also reveals that nearly one third of respondents in banking say their firm is in the early stages ...

FS firms have access to an awful lot of data. And for the last few years, that has resulted in a drive for personalisation – leveraging data sets for personalised communications, loyalty schemes and content for example. The Accenture study ‘Hello You’ shows that in the motor/home insurer market, for example, 74% of customers are happy to share personal data with FS providers...

The advent and growth of PSD2, Open Banking and the like has seen FS firms – whether long established or disruptive – setting their sights on growth through digital innovation. There is budget available for such growth. Carter Murray’s research reveals that 88% of FS professionals say their digital marketing budget has increased over the last five years. European banks are s...

While digital tools mean the potential reach of communications is wider than ever, focused internal communications still has a vital role to play. A study from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) found that 92% of internal communication practitioners agreed that internal communications could drive financial performance and team productivity. But yet during any...