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Staying safe on the road in a gig economy – RoSPA Workplace Safety Blog
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Staying safe on the road in a gig economy – RoSPA Workplace Safety Blog

If you’ve ever driven a car or ridden a motorcycle on a short-term contract, chances are you’ve participated in the gig economy. In fact, millions of adults in the UK are now participants in the system as drivers and riders, whether they’re aware of it or not. But how can you and other road users stay safe? What is the gig economy? The term ‘gig economy’ is used to describe the 1.1 million people in the UK who work in a free market system in which temporary positions are common place. The gig economy is made up of three main…
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Dyer & Butler Ltd – RoSPA Workplace Safety Blog
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Dyer & Butler Ltd – RoSPA Workplace Safety Blog

From their Safety, Sustainability and Training Director, Steven Broom, being awarded Health and Safety Influencer of the Year 2019, to winning a number of President and Gold Medal Awards across a variety of divisions, Dyer & Butler Ltd enjoyed an outstanding 2019. As one of the first winners of the Influencer of the Year Award, we recently caught up with Steven to find out Dyer & Butler Ltd’s impressive awards history, and how winning a RoSPA Award has benefited both himself and his organization… What benefits does winning a RoSPA Award have for your organisation? RoSPA is a well-respected brand…
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Are Finance Stocks Lagging Banco De Chile (BCH) This Year?
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Are Finance Stocks Lagging Banco De Chile (BCH) This Year?

The Finance group has plenty of great stocks, but investors should always be looking for companies that are outperforming their peers. Has Banco De Chile (BCH) been one of those stocks this year? A quick glance at the company’s year-to-date performance in comparison to the rest of the Finance sector should help us answer this question. Banco De Chile is one of 883 companies in the Finance group. The Finance group currently sits at #3 within the Zacks Sector Rank. The Zacks Sector Rank considers 16 different groups, measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the sector…
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Crypto ‘may have hit the ultimate bottom months ago,’ analyst says
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Crypto ‘may have hit the ultimate bottom months ago,’ analyst says

2022 hasn’t been kind to crypto buyers, but the major swoon earlier this year has a silver lining that might prove to benefit other risk investors. Following a widespread sell off in Q1, according to Coinmarketcap, crypto’s total market capitalization dropped by more than half (-56%) in the second quarter. However, since July, crypto’s total market capitalization is up 7%. “We may have hit the ultimate bottom months ago because of cascading liquidations,” Thomas Dunleavy, senior market analyst with Messari, told Yahoo Finance. “The market is down to only the true believers at this point. Most of the sellers seemed…
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Corrigendum (credit rating AA+) – Alvaro Lario, global finance executive, takes helm at UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development
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Corrigendum (credit rating AA+) – Alvaro Lario, global finance executive, takes helm at UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development

ROME, Oct. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Development finance leader Alvaro Lario takes the helmet of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development on Saturday with an urgent mission to battle poverty and hunger among the world’s rural poor as they face existential threats of climate change and food insecurity. Alvaro Larioglobal finance executive, takes helm at UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development Lario, a Spanish national who has served as IFAD’s chief financial officer since 2018, has led efforts to harness private sector investment to boost the resilience of millions of small-scale farmers and rural communities who are among those…
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India Seeks to Separate Lenders to Ease Clean Energy Financing
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India Seeks to Separate Lenders to Ease Clean Energy Financing

(Bloomberg) — India may unwind a four-year-old decision to combine two state-run lenders as it seeks to sidestep local rules that restrict them from funding power projects in one of the world’s fastest-growing energy markets. The government is discussing a plan for state-run Power Finance Corp. to sell its controlling stake in REC Ltd. to transmission utility Power Grid Corp., which is flush with cash, Raj Kumar Singh, the nation’s power minister, said in an interview in New Delhi. Power Finance and REC will enjoy their different exposure limits as separate companies, potentially resulting in greater project funding, he said.…
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