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There is a gap between the digital skills people have and those needed to live, learn, and work in the digital world. The need to upskill — to bridge this gap — is a complex problem that will require government administrators, educators, and business leaders to come together. To learn more about upskilling your own workforce, go to Upskill my workforce for the digital world.Business leaders who are fond of saying their most valuable assets walk in the door each morning will have to come up with a new aphorism. As more firms realize the virtues of virtual work,…

Small business units are now looking to mortgage family-owned gold jewellery to fund their operations, which had shrunk during the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak following restrictions on human and logistics movement. “Small businesses have all but collapsed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, they are looking for capital to restart operations. For them, gold jewellery is the only asset they can use to get funds. Hence, we can see a sharp increase in loans against gold to fund small businesses once markets reopen,” said Somasundaram P R, managing director-India, World Gold Council, addressing a webinar organised by PHD…

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SBI Life Insurance on Tuesday reported a 5 per cent increase in net profit at Rs 390 crore for the first quarter of the current fiscal. The private sector life insurer, promoted by the country’s largest lender SBI, had posted a net profit of Rs 370 crore during the corresponding April-June period of 2019-20. The company’s gross written premium during Q1 FY21 rose by 14 per cent to Rs 7,640 crore as against Rs 6,690 crore in the same quarter of the preceding fiscal, SBI Life said in a release. …

Oil prices gained more than 3{bce2ac57dae147ae13b811f47f24d80c66c6ab504b39dda4a9b6e8ac93725942} to hit a more than four-month high on Tuesday, helped by positive news about coronavirus vaccine trials and a European Union stimulus deal.Brent crude rose $1.39, or 3.2{bce2ac57dae147ae13b811f47f24d80c66c6ab504b39dda4a9b6e8ac93725942}, to $44.67 a barrel by 11:19 a.m. EDT (1519 GMT). West Texas Intermediate (WTI) jumped $1.36, or 3.3{bce2ac57dae147ae13b811f47f24d80c66c6ab504b39dda4a9b6e8ac93725942}, to $42.17 a barrel. Both benchmarks were at their strongest since March 6.Prices were buoyed by an agreement among European Union leaders on a 750 billion euro ($859 billion) fund to prop up their coronavirus-hit economies, lifting prospects for fuel demand. …

July 20, 2020 6 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Even when the country starts opening up in earnest, people may continue staying at home more often out of an abundance of caution. The nationwide shutdown has necessitated some creativity for business owners, who must pivot their marketing efforts. How does your product or service serve your consumer when they’re at home? How can you alter your marketing message to meet them where they are now? It will look different for every company, but a good first step is to consider your target-customer alias and what…

When you hear the word work, what comes to mind? Is it an office or another type of work site? For many people, that’s the case. They equate the concept of work with being at a physical location. Working with businesses on issues involving gender equality, flexibility, work–life balance or integration, and other best practices, I often find that many managers, sometimes subconsciously, still think of work as a place someone goes to. They’re aware it’s possible to get work tasks done remotely. But many are distrustful of telework. They believe they can only be sure their team members are…

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Monday issued guidelines for the collection of upfront margins from clients, which the broking community said would put an end to leveraged intra-day trading and make a huge dent in trading turnover. The regulator has asked brokers to collect upfront so-called value at risk (VaR) margin and extreme loss margin (ELM) even for trading in the equity cash segment. This will be implemented in three phases starting December 2020 where brokers will be penalised if margin client to clients is more than 25 per cent of VAR+ELM.…