At our recent Annual Conference in Amsterdam, Sept 2023, we had the pleasure of awarding Katherine gold member status as recognition for their ongoing commitment and hard work within the IR Global network. This is a prestigious honour bestowed by IR Global upon members who we consider have made a substantial contribution to the development […]
This article was originally published on Small Business on 26th June 2023. IR Global member Katherine Evans, senior partner of Mirkwood Evans Vincent recently published an article on the uses of Artificial Intelligence in business. Within the article, she explores the benefits presented by AI through the automation of repetitive tasks like data entry, report generation and scheduling enabling staff […]
This article was originally published on Small Business on 26th June 2023. IR Global member Katherine Evans, senior partner of Mirkwood Evans Vincent recently published an article on the uses of Artificial Intelligence in business. Within the article, she explores the benefits presented by AI through the automation of repetitive tasks like data entry, report generation and scheduling enabling staff […]
Meet The Members Europe – Regulation of digital currencies in the UK
What is a digital currency? On the one hand, a great deal of the money in our economy is digital. Numbers on balance sheets and bank ledgers move around the world with no actual physical paper exchanging hands. However, the value of the currencies is protected to a significant degree by the assets of the […]
Foreword Co-Authored By Andrew Chilvers And Bob Brewer Global Trade: Combating protectionism and the pandemic The past 18 months were a huge shock to international trade as increasing protectionism and Covid-19 wrought havoc with all previous forecasts and economic roadmaps. Many business analysts predicted that the double whammy of protectionism and pandemic would spell an […]
Foreword by Andrew Chilvers The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is a hugely diverse cultural and geographical mix that stretches from Morocco in northwest Africa to Iran in Southwest Asia. The region is home to a range of economies with vastly different levels of openness to international trade and investment. But with the […]
Foreward by Andrew Chilvers For the legal sector, COVID-19 has been a huge catalyst for change globally. Overnight, almost all legal advisors decamped en masse from their expensive mid-town and city offices to their homes to work. Personal meetings suddenly disappeared to be replaced by virtual meetings on Zoom or Microsoft Teams. As the UK […]
Post-Brexit means emerging markets for the UK: ISFIN teams up with agile English law firm
Katherine Evans, founder and Senior Partner at MIRKWOOD EVANS VINCENT and Prof. Laurent Marlière, CEO of ISFIN announced they will collaborate to make the most of the current British situation towards emerging markets. There has been a significant drop in FDI since the Brexit referendum, but since the effective Brexit, the UK has nevertheless made […]
IR Global member Katherine Evans would like to highlight the work of Owen Evans. Owen’s art reflects his intensely spiritual nature. He had visions of a world beyond the physical, which he was only able to articulate through his imagery. He was also a passionate environmentalist, who joined the Green Party shortly before his death, […]
Playing By the Rules: establishing effective DLT communities
What is a distributed ledger? Distributed ledger technology (DLT) continues to enable the explosion of crypto-currencies, that we have seen over the last few years. As well as being the driving force behind Bitcoin, it has many other applications that make it useful and relevant to businesses in a range of industries. A distributed ledger […]
What are virtual currencies? European Banking Authority (EBA) regards virtual currencies as being a digital representation of value that is neither issued by a central bank or a public authority nor necessarily attached to a regular currency, but is accepted by natural or legal persons as a means of payment, and can be transferred, stored […]
VAT Rule Changes for UK Wholesale Telecommunications Supplies
VAT Reverse Charge Mechanism to apply to Certain Wholesale Supplies from 1st February 2016 Certain UK clients have asked me to explain the VAT rule changes for UK wholesale telecommunications supplies, and hopefully this blog will do that. From 1st February 2016, providers of wholesale telecommunications services in the UK will no longer apply VAT […]
