Businesses across the UK have just a few weeks left to put a data protection complaints process in place, before new legal requirements come into force on 19 June 2026. From that date, all organisations will be legally required to handle data protection complaints under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025. With just weeks remaining, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is urging businesses, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises, to read its guidance now and take the straightforward steps needed to comply. The new law means organisations must: give people a clear way to raise a data protection complaint; acknowledge it within…
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Lloyds, part of Lloyds Banking Group – the UK’s largest digital bank, together with BankiFi has launched a free Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax tool for small businesses in the UK. Embedded into the Lloyds Business Account, the tool is available exclusively to Lloyds Business customers at no cost and with no subscription fee. BankiFi’s technology platform has been integrated directly into Lloyds’ Business Account and allows small businesses to quickly and easily comply with new MTD for Income Tax requirements which came into force on 6th April 2026. These regulations require sole traders and landlords to keep digital…
GAIN, the independent full service marketing agency at the intersection of creativity, data and technology, has launched an exciting new AI tool, bringing deep insight in online conversion to marketing teams of any size. Named after the flower, Lupine harnesses both human expertise and data from over ten thousand tests to optimise digital experience conversion rates. Using just a URL, it can surface test-ready ideas in minutes, identify weak spots and offer solutions that can easily be sent to decision makers, significantly speeding up the process of making sure that websites are running at their best. Lupine is built for…
You’re building a website, putting together a document, or mocking up a design – and without a second thought, you reach for a familiar font. Arial. Tahoma. Times New Roman. Easy. Barely anyone gives it a second thought. But according to new research from digital design studio Kraam, those everyday choices could be quietly working against you. Their latest insight reveals the most disliked fonts from a professional design perspective – not because they’re obscure or gimmicky – but because they’re too familiar, often used without considering how they impact readability, perception, and user experience. The Most Hated Fonts People Still…
The Small Business Protections (Late Payments) Bill has been introduced to parliament, promising a 60-day payment cap, mandatory 8% interest on late payments, and new enforcement processes. Sebastien Marchon, CEO of global fintech Rydoo, holds the view that prevention of late payments will be more effective than imposing fines. He calls for greater use of automation within finance departments to make invoice processing and approval almost immediate, protecting supplier relationships and reducing the £11bn late payments problem. Sebastien argues that as payment performance becomes more visible with regulation, firms are likely to boost uptake of automation tools to ensure they don’t fall foul…
One in seven people in Portugal is now born overseas, highlighting a growing shift that could shape the future of work across Europe. Portugal is quietly becoming one of Europe’s most important workforce pressure test areas, revealing how migrations, ageing populations, talent, and cross-border hiring are reshaping employment across the continent. According to analysis by Agility EOR, the data show that the foreign-born share of Portugal’s population has reached around one in seven people, with immigration now a key driver of labour supply in the country. At the same time, Portugal is facing demographic and economic pressures, with the Organisation…
By Jessie Raby, Founder of new UK-built placement intelligence platform, Prodicta. If a hiring decision or dismissal in your organisation was challenged tomorrow, would you be confident in your ability to defend it? I’s a simple question, but for many employers, the answer is far from clear. Yet the changes being introduced under the Employment Rights Act 2025 have raised this to the top of the agenda. It requires employers to demonstrate that hiring decisions are fair, objective, and documented. From January 2027, employees will have unfair dismissal protection from their first day of employment. The two-year qualifying period is being…
By Kate Lester, Co-founder and CEO, Diamond Logistics Ltd For many ecommerce brands, fulfilment is something that only gets serious attention once it starts to go wrong. Missed or incomplete deliveries, rising costs and customer complaints often appear long before fulfilment is recognised as a strategic issue. After working with thousands of ecommerce businesses over three decades, we see the same fulfilment mistakes repeated time and again—often by otherwise well‑run, fast‑growing brands. Mistake 1: Treating fulfilment as an afterthought Many brands invest heavily in product development, marketing and customer acquisition, only to ‘figure out logistics later’. Fulfilment is expected to…
Social media platforms reportedly raked in a massive £430 million in 2025 alone from criminals targeting UK consumers through scam ads – a 56% increase compared to 2022. Alarmingly, Brits are losing an average of £1,258 per scam advert online. Meta has also recently been named in a lawsuit alleging the tech giant earned around 10% of its profits – approximately $16 billion – from high-risk adverts across its platforms, including scam and banned product ads. But where in the world are users most at risk from online financial scams – and what phrases do scammers most commonly use to lure them in? With this in mind, the forex experts at BrokerChooser scraped…
The marketing playbook that worked in 2025 is actively hurting performance in 2026, says Donatas Smailys, CEO and co-founder of Billo, the largest creator marketing platform in the US. May 13, 2026. Social media marketing moves fast, and trend cycles that once lasted a year now can change as quickly as in weeks. As platform algorithms shift and audience skepticism deepens, a set of tactics that dominated marketing are already showing early signs of failure, experts say. “There is always a lag between when something stops working and when brands stop doing it,” said Donatas Smailys, CEO of Billo, a creator…