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The AIM CFO

The AIM CFO as Growth Orchestrator AIM CFOs know the reality all too well: they are running a public company roadmap with a scale-up budget. AIM-listed businesses demand Main Market-level scrutiny, timely reporting, ironclad controls, investor narratives that hold water, while ...

From CFO to CEO

From CFO to CEO: How to Make the Move For years, the path to the top of an organisation seemed reserved mainly for leaders with commercial, operating or sales backgrounds. Chief Financial Officers (CFO) were regarded as guardians of the numbers, ...

CFO landscape for 2026

As UK businesses head into 2026, the Chief Financial Officer’s role keeps evolving to now become company strategist, technology champion and risk manager steering organisations through economic volatility, escalating cost pressures and fast-evolving digital landscapes. The expanded role reflects a broader ...

Fractional CFOs

Flexible Leadership Models: Fractional CFOs In today’s volatile business climate, startups and scaleups are increasingly turning away from traditional models of executive hiring in favour of fractional CFOs, senior financial leaders engaged on a part-time, contract or advisory basis. Fractional CFO arrangements ...

Dealing With Activist Investors

Dealing With Activist Investors: The New Reality for FTSE 100 CFOs FTSE 100 boards are facing rising pressure from activist investors and their CFOs are increasingly in the spotlight as the frontline of this new reality. Firms like Cevian, TCI and ...

AI Application & Human Oversight

CFOs Balancing AI Application and Human Oversight The rapid integration of generative AI, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and real-time analytics is fundamentally reshaping the role of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO). No longer confined to historical reporting and compliance, the finance ...

CFOs in Cybersecurity

The Increasing Involvement of CFOs in Cybersecurity 2025 has seen a number of major and widely reported on cyber-attacks on several of the UK’s well-known and loved blue chip brands. As companies face an ever-increasing threat coming from anonymous cybercriminals, there ...

Why you need a turnaround CFO

Why you need a turnaround CFO: Driving leadership and collaboration during a crisis When a company is in financial distress, the arrival of a new CFO is rarely synonymous with business as usual. It signals a turning point or at least ...

CFOs and Corporate Sustainability

The evolving role of CFOs in driving corporate sustainability As businesses negotiate an era of unprecedented global challenges and opportunities, Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) are emerging as key players in driving corporate sustainability initiatives. No longer confined to traditional financial management, ...

Climate Finance

Climate finance: funding mitigation and adaptation to climate change Climate change stands as one of the most daunting challenges of our time, demanding substantial financial resources to combat its causes and cushion its impacts. At the heart of this global endeavour ...