17-10-2020 | RO-AR Briefing (ßeta)

Headlines :

-> Average Canadian house price continues to defy expectations, up 17% in past year

-> The future of homeworking: reflections and implications

-> Data management barriers to AI success

-> Two in five retirees monthly expenditure exceeds household’s income – Credit Connect

-> Financial wellbeing implications or pandemic highlighted in report – Credit Connect

-> Debit card spending hits record high in July – Credit Connect

-> More than half of mid-life adults have never calculated when they can afford to retire – CCR

-> Businesses are spending £2,000 per day on temporary ‘Interim Managers’ to help them survive past Covid-19 – CCR

-> UK banks plan to hike cost of credit card borrowing | Money

-> Boots chain reports 30% sales drop at retail sites in UK | Business

-> Pret a Manger to cut a further 400 jobs and close six more stores | Business

-> ‘Hasty’ furlough scheme ‘left room for fraud’ say MPs

-> British Airways fined £20m over data breach