Plum lands in Spain: this is how the fintech that wants to save for you works
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He wanted to create an app to help save that was almost as easy as hitting a button. This was Victor Trokoudes idea for founding Plum,
a British fintech that is now making the leap to other European markets after raising an €8.4 million funding round.
Trokoudes is a well-known figure in the fintech world. He was
one of the first 5 employees of Transferwise, another British fintech that revolutionized international transfers by lowering their cost for customers and that, after 10 years of activity, has just changed its name to Wise.
Consultancy joins the 4-day week: the founder of Advantage Consultores assures that its implementation has brought only advantages .
In addition, the 4-day work week has received an important boost from the institutions after the Government approved a pilot project with which it will subsidize with some 250,000 euros each of the 200 companies with between 6 and 200 employees that have been selected to experiment the implementation of the 4-day work week without reducing the salaries of their workers.
Advantage Consultores, an international consulting firm specializing in headhunting based in Barcelona, Madrid, and Nuremberg, which
implemented the 4-day week in January without reducing the salary of its workers.
From the sun of the south to the lowlands of northern Germany - at VW, MatÃas Carnero begins work on the Supervisory Board
The Spaniard s entry into the top committee is evidence of the upgrading of Seat in the Group and the Iberian Peninsula in central plans of the Wolfsburg-based company.
IG Metall has nominated MatÃas Carnero as a supervisor - the global player VW is to cultivate an international appearance even among exposed mandate holders.
The E from Espana also stands for the E in electromobility - Spain is increasingly focusing on alternative drives and is one of the most significant sales markets in Europe in perspective.
People with psychopathic tendencies manage to climb the ladder in life and at work for this terrible reason
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Psychopath. It s a word that sends shivers down your spine, isn t it? It s often associated with cold people, people who don t accept social rules and because of that manipulate others in their own way. If it is so obvious on a social level that a person with psychopathic tendencies can be dangerous, for themselves and for others
, how is it possible to find such people so high up in the hierarchy of a company? Or how is it possible for them to reach the top rungs of the social ladder?
Deutsche Telekom s fiber-optic strategy: real offensive or PR clambake ?
Tim Höttges, chief executive of Deutsche Telekom, announced major investments in fiber-optic expansion at the Group s Annual General Meeting: up to 2.5 billion euros a year.
By 2024, Deutsche Telekom wants to equip ten million households with fiber-optic connections. By 2030, all households should even be connected to the fiber-optic network.
So far, fiber-optic expansion in Germany has been slow. Experts consider Telekom s plan to be sporty . One even speaks of PR clambake.
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Tim Höttges has big plans. The Telekom CEO announced at last Thursday s online AGM that he wants to supply all households in Germany with fiber optics by 2030. To do this, he needs the help of the competition, but Telekom also wants to provide fiber to ten million households itself by 2024. That would be around eight million more households than at present. Last year, Telekom only laid fiber to 0.6 million households. By 2024,