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Ritesh Jha Takes on Head of Talent Acquisition role at KPMG India. The short version. Ritesh Jha has been appointed Head - Talent Acquisition at KPMG India, bringing experience across talent acquisition, technology recruitment, and HR leadership in banking, financial services, technology, and consulting. His professional background spans recruitment strategy, talent management, and hiring across diverse business environments, providing a foundation for his new leadership role. Listen Ritesh Jha Takes on Head of Talent Ritesh Jha has been appointed Head - Talent Acquisition at KPMG India, bringing experience across talent acquisition, technology recruitment, and HR leadership in banking, financial services, technology, and consulting. His professional background spans recruitment strategy, talent management, and hiring across diverse business environments, providing a foundation for his new leadership role. Experience in Talent Acquisition leadership. Before joining KPMG India, Ritesh served as Talent Acquisition Head at Lloyds Bank. Prior to that, he held the position of Senior Vice President - Technology Recruiting, Asia, at Citi India, where his responsibilities centred on technology recruitment. These roles added to his experience in talent acquisition leadership and recruitment across the financial services sector. A career across multiple organisations. Ritesh has also held leadership positions at FIS, Allegis Global Solutions, Info Edge India Ltd, and GE. His experience across these organisations has contributed to his expertise in recruitment strategy and talent management. His career reflects a sustained focus on identifying talent, supporting recruitment requirements, and managing hiring across different industries. A new chapter at KPMG India. As Head - Talent Acquisition at KPMG India, Ritesh takes on a leadership role that builds on his previous experience at Lloyds Bank and Citi India, as well as his work across recruitment and talent management organisations. His appointment marks the next stage of his professional journey, bringing together experience in technology recruitment, talent acquisition, and HR leadership across the banking, financial services, technology, and consulting sectors. Was this story useful? 73 eyeballs Found this useful? Rate it.

Perch Group, a Blackpool-based company, has secured a £55 million facility from Triple Point as part of an enhanced £400 million funding platform to support its growth plans. The facility forms a component of the broader funding package, which will enable the company to pursue its expansion objectives. No additional details about Perch Group's specific business operations or growth strategy were disclosed.

Lloyds Get Paid invoicing tool targets small business late payment crisis. 0 9 2 minutes read Lloyds is launching the Lloyds Get Paid invoicing tool for business banking customers, offering invoice creation, payment tracking and automated reminders at no additional cost, built directly into the Lloyds app and online banking. The bank says the product, developed in partnership with BankiFi, is designed to reduce the time small businesses spend chasing payments. What Lloyds Get Paid actually does. The tool, due to launch later this year, will allow business customers to create and send invoices, issue secure payment links, and track which payments have been settled and which remain outstanding, all within existing Lloyds banking interfaces. Automated reminders can be sent to customers who have not paid, removing the need for manual follow-up. The bank says the service comes at no additional cost and does not require businesses to purchase separate invoicing or accountancy software. Lloyds describes the underlying approach as embedded accounting: the idea that financial workflows beyond simple banking products can sit inside the banking interface itself, rather than requiring businesses to move between separate systems. Ruchir Rodrigues, BCB client strategy and commercial director at Lloyds, said: 'Businesses shouldn't have to pay extra for the tools they need to get paid. By building invoicing and payment collection directly into the Lloyds banking experience at no additional cost, Sense About Science is making it easier for customers to manage cashflow and spend more time growing their business.' The late payment figures behind the pitch. The context for the product is a well-documented problem. 49% of small businesses report that their customers typically take longer to pay than agreed terms, according to UK Government research cited in the announcement. The Office of the Small Business Commissioner estimates that 14,000 businesses close each year because of late payments, and that UK businesses are owed around £26 billion in overdue payments at any given time, an average of £17,000 per business. Mark Hartley, chief executive officer of BankiFi, said: 'Our partnership with Lloyds demonstrates how banks can use embedded capabilities to become a more central part of how businesses operate, while giving customers the connected experience they increasingly expect. Invoicing, getting paid and tax administration may not traditionally have been considered banking services, but they are fundamental financial workflows for businesses.' BankiFi's existing role: Making Tax Digital. Get Paid is not the first product to emerge from the Lloyds-BankiFi partnership. Earlier this year, BankiFi supported the launch of Making Tax Digital for Income Tax functionality within the Lloyds Business Current Account. That tool carries HMRC-recognised status, according to The Paypers. The timing matters. New Making Tax Digital for Income Tax regulations came into effect on 6 April 2026, requiring sole traders and landlords to keep digital records and submit quarterly reports to HMRC, a change that expanded the compliance burden for many small business customers. Offering an HMRC-recognised tool inside the existing banking app positions the MTD functionality as a direct response to that regulatory shift, and Get Paid as a natural extension of the same logic. For BankiFi, the expanded scope of the partnership is framed as a proof of concept for what its technology can deliver at scale. The company says the Lloyds relationship demonstrates how banks can move beyond individual products and embed wider financial workflows into the banking experience, becoming more relevant to the day-to-day operations of small businesses rather than simply holding their deposits. Whether the embedded accounting approach will meaningfully reduce late payments for Lloyds customers is an empirical question the bank has not yet answered. Get Paid's automated reminders address one part of the problem: the friction of following up. The harder question, whether the underlying payment behaviour of business customers changes when a tool makes chasing easier, remains open. The product's launch later this year will at least provide some data. Alan Cartwright spent twelve years in academic research before he started writing for a wider audience. He did a PhD in biochemistry, held postdoctoral positions at two Russell Group universities, and spent three years on a public engagement fellowship before realising he was better at explaining science than producing it. He writes about scientific research, health claims, evidence policy, and the gap between what a study actually shows and what the headline says it shows. He has peer-reviewed enough papers to know that 'further research is needed' is the most honest sentence in science. Alan lives in Oxford. He reads preprints before press releases and considers this the correct order of operations.