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April 3, 2019
Target Group reduces gender pay gap well below industry average as it champions diversity
Target reduced its gender pay gap by 4.8 percentage points to 22.5%, considerably below the industry average of 33.4%*. It also reduced is median pay gap by 5.5 percentage points to 15.1%, more than half the figure for the financial services and insurance sectors (35.7%*).
March 25, 2019
Target’s Sophie named Best HR Professional in Sector at Wales HR Awards
Sophie Grant has been named Best HR Professional in Financial & Professional Services for her role at Target Group at the 2019 Wales HR Awards, which recognises and celebrates the achievements of HR professionals across Wales.
February 15, 2019
Don’t automate your problems – getting results from RPA in banking operations
In the new and exciting world of robotic process automation (RPA) the same kind of thing could be said – don’t automate your problems – yet today again many banks and financial services institutions are rushing headlong into digital programmes without considering what they are automating.
January 24, 2019
Target Group boosts client services and business development teams with two new hires
Target Group has appointed financial services expert Neil Glover as Business Development Director. Target also adds to its Client Services team with David Facenfield joining as Client Development Director.
January 16, 2019
2019 Market Predictions
Trying to forecast what the market might look like is a difficult enough task at the best of times. But when faced with the backdrop of the current political and economic uncertainty, making predictions is increasingly difficult.
January 3, 2019
Can technology make consumer spending more ‘responsible’?
Charities are increasing their pressure on the finance industry to do more to protect its customers from their own spending. With Barclays introducing ways for its debit cards to be ‘switched off’ to certain types of spending, will we see such features extend further into all retail finance?
December 7, 2018
Target Group Comments: FCA publishes findings on long-term mortgage arrears
Terry Baxter, Director of Risk and Compliance at Target Group, said: “The FCA’s findings on how mortgage lenders treat customers who have long-term arrears is a timely and important study."
November 20, 2018
Target Group signs up to the Women in Finance Charter
Target Group, the business process outsourcing and operational transformation provider, has signed up to the Women in Finance Charter, an initiative from HM Treasury to build a more balanced and fair financial services industry.
October 23, 2018
3 reasons why GDPR is actually a good thing
The panic across businesses and organisations in the months running up to 25 May 2018 was palpable. GDPR was coming, and it was going to disrupt operations, occupy the busy diaries of CIOs, CDOs and CEOS, as well as costing a fortune to implement.