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CryptoCurrency: A New Era?

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Earlier this week Bitcoin soared to an all time high value, with 1 Bitcoin being worth £2,651, putting the total market value of all Bitcoins over £43billion. I think the growth of Bitcoin over the past few years shows that there is a demand for tech innovation of all aspects of the economy, including finance.…

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Preventing Crisis: Liquidity & Risk

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This is not one of those financial services blog posts that claims any one single hot topic is going to lead to another international economic crisis. We all know the modern economy is extremely complex, and there are a wide variety of factors that would be involved if we saw another serious sudden downturn. What I want…

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Consider the Contractor

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When Kind Consultancy first started we focussed exclusively on senior permanent and interim positions within the Governance, Risk & Compliance space. Over the last two years though, we’ve seen an explosion of activity in Contract roles and now have an established team dedicated to it, with a lot of my own work falling into this…

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Kind Consultancy Newsletter – Q2 2017

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Q2 has been a great quarter for the Kind Consultancy business, we’ve focused on growing the team and the proposition available from our Information Security division. Our teams have secured top talent for a number of businesses across UK and continue to work with clients in a turbulent time for the Cyber Security sector. New consultants Tom…

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Kind Wins the Brindleyplace Dragonboat Race 2017

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On Saturday June 24th, a team representing the Kind Group entered the Brindleyplace Dragonboat Race for the first time – and ended the day as overall winners of the event. The team consisted of Luke Gleeson,  Sadie Qureshi, Jake Shephard and Henry Wright from Kind Consultancy, Marc Biddle from Kind Commercial, Andrew Bretherton from Kind…

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Why is ISO 27001 Important to Your Business?

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ISO 27001 is a specification for Information Security Management systems – frameworks of procedures and policies that include all of the legal, technical and physical controls that are involved in a company’s information risk management process. It contains 172 requirements and  114 controls, and studies suggest it can take 12 months for a single IT…

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Kind Consultancy Sponsors: Cancer Research Wolves

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Kind Consultancy is very proud to be sponsoring the Cancer Research Wolves, a team created to raise awareness and support for Cancer Research within the fast-growing sport of Rugby 7s. The team captain is Kind Consultancy’s very own Sam Brown, who will next be seen leading the Wolves in the Chester 7s tournament on 17th…

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Your Digital Image: How Do You Look To An Employer?

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With social media activity at an all time high, it is more important than ever to be conscious of your personal brand, the digital image of yourself that you create which is visible to the wider world. Employers have long relied on references, referrals and the short 60 minutes they have face to face to…

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The NHS Cyber Attack: What You Need To Know

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In the wake of Friday’s cyber attack, I wanted to quickly explain exactly what’s happened and show how you can protect your own organisation. The attack took the form of a rapidly spreading piece of ransomware. Ransomware is malicious software which locks up your computer, making it impossible to use unless you send money to…

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Cocktails With Kind

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The first Cocktails With Kind event was a great success, sincere thanks to all who attended and told us how much they enjoyed it. Special thanks to Phil Ryan of the International Compliance Association for his thought-provoking and entertaining talk on the future of the Compliance industry, which inspired a lot of interesting discussions across…

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