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In this third podcast of our mini-series, we are joined by Lee Coccaro (Partner) and Victoria Bright (Associate Director) from our Global Employer Services team, who discuss international share plans in more detail.

Speakers: Lee Coccaro, Partner, and Victoria Bright, Associate Director - Global Employer Services.

Maria Mason discusses all things payroll as she talks through how COVID-19 first impacted the industry, how it adapted, considerations all businesses should be making, and how she sees the industry changing in the future.

Speakers: Maria Mason, Director – Business Services and Outsourcing

In this second episode of our podcast mini-series on international home working, we are once again joined by Lee Coccaro (Partner, Global Employer Services) as he discusses social security in more detail, and the implications that businesses need to consider.

Speaker: Lee Coccaro, Partner – Global Employer Services

In this podcast we are joined by Linda Mounter (Associate Director) from our Thames Valley Private Client Services team, who discusses BDO’s World of Private Clients research programme, which was launched to provide a forensic understanding of sentiment among the global private client community.

In particular, we sought to understand how private clients, next generation wealth holders and the professional advisory community are seeking to navigate the plethora of short, medium and long-term risks and opportunities that define the global economy. Linda takes us through the four key pillars; transparency, relocation, family & generational wealth, and adviser of the future, and what she is seeing with her clients.

Speaker: Linda Mounter, Associate Director – Private Client Services

Following the success of our International Working from home webinar we held during February, our Global Employer Services team will be conducting a mini podcast series discussing these topics in more detail. In this first podcast of the series, we hear from Lee Coccaro (Partner, Global Employer Services) and Sharon Tayfield (Director, Global Payroll Services) who discuss payroll withholding taxes and social security.

Speakers: Lee Coccaro, Partner – Global Employer Services, and Sharon Tayfield, Director – Global Payroll Services

More on the Thames Valley Rethinking the Regions hub. 

In this podcast with our Thames Valley Global Employer Services team, we hear from Mark Seaden (Director) and Laura Humby (Assistant Manager) who discuss reporting obligations for employers, including P11D/PAYE Settlement Agreements (PSA), Short Term Business Visitors (STBV) and Employment Related Securities (ERS).

 Speakers: Mark Seaden, Employment Tax Director , Laura Humby, Assistant Manager

In the fourth episode of our regional podcast series Dan Brookes, Head of International for Yorkshire and the North East hosts Kevin Doyle, International Corporate Tax Partner and Carol Lynch, Customs & Trade Partner from BDO Ireland to discuss changes to regulatory requirements for businesses looking to set up operations in Ireland post-Brexit.

Kevin and Carol talk through some of the key reasons why Ireland is such an attractive location for many UK businesses looking for alternative EU base, practical areas of consideration in relation to supply chain matters as well as a high-level overview of some of the support services BDO Ireland can offer.

Rethink Business, the podcast powered by BDO for ambitious entrepreneurs, where Adam Norris, Founder of Pure Electric, Paymen Sabeti, Operations Director of Sabeti Wain Areospace and Barinder Hothi, Managing Director of The Knowledge Academy share their insights and experiences that have contributed to their business' success and how they have embedded resilience whilst continuing to innovate and grow.

In our second interview, Jason Deign talks to Jonathan Caswell, LDC origination director with responsibility across the South, and Ben Knowles, mergers and acquisitions director at BDO, on COVID-19's impact on the regional private equity scene. We look at how private equity deal levels and activities have been affected, what businesses have done to adapt and what investors are now looking for in leadership terms. 

For more on private equity, visit the Central South hub.