Eurowings partners with Smartwings to sell flights together
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Lufthansa’s holiday unit Eurowings has entered a partnership with Czech rival Smartwings to sell..
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Global climate talks open to cries of betrayal, blame
GLASGOW (Reuters) – A U.N. conference seen critical to averting the most disastrous effects of climate change launches amid acri..
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Building privacy into AI: is the future federated?
By Dr. Aydin Ulas, Data Scientist at Truata The changing dynamics of the digital world have led to several privacy challen..
TECHNOLOGY
How Financial Services Firms Can Mitigate Against Their Top Data Security Threats
By Martin Ward, Director, Security Governance Risk and Compliance, iManage Sensitive data is the coin of the realm for fin..
FINANCE
G20 want 70% of world vaccinated by mid-2022, sets up task force for pandemic fight
By Jan Strupczewski and Andrea Shalal ROME (Reuters) -Finance and health ministers from the world’s 20 biggest economies (G20) s..
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Japan’s ruling party is set for likely bruising in weekend election
By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and prime minister Fumio Kishida are likely to tak..
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Oil prices set for first weekly drop since August as supply concerns ease
By Roslan Khasawneh and Sonali Paul SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Oil prices edged up on Friday but were headed for their first weekly losses i..
BUSINESS
Why late payments are hurting your customer, as well as your business
By Lynne Darcey Quigley, Co-founder and CEO of Know-it (Global) Ltd & Darcey Quigley & Co discusses how late payments not only..
BUSINESS
PSD2: Merchants Must Regain Checkout Control Through Delegated Authentication
By Galit Michel, VP of Payments, Forter For the past ten years, globalisation and digitalisation have changed the way companies connec..
BUSINESS
Shift happens. But what are CFOs in financial services going to do about it?
By Tim Wakeford, Financials VP of Product Strategy, Workday Shift happens – and never more so than in the financial services sector wh..
BUSINESS
How Returns Abuse Affects Retailers
By Aaron Begner, EMEA GM at Forter Accompanying the significant growth in ecommerce over the past 12 months, is the need for retailers..
BUSINESS
Why start-ups fail: 5 barriers to business success and how to overcome them
By Mark Wright, BBC Apprentice Winner and Director of digital marketing agency, Climb Online In 2019, the Telegraph revealed that 20%..
BUSINESS
How Africa can satisfy consumer demands for sustainability
By Shaw Mabuto, Partner and ESG Officer, SPEAR Capital Over the past 18 months of the pandemic, a lot of people around the globe have..
BUSINESS
BaaS: What you need to know about the rise of Banking as a Service
By Paddy Vishani, Strategic Partnerships Manager at Yobota The banking sector has been progressing at pace over recent yea..
BANKING
5 Reasons Why Bitcoin ATMs are Expanding
Meta Description: Bitcoin ATMs are popping up everywhere. Why is this happening, and what does this mean for the future of Cryptocurre..
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Merck sees up to $7 billion in sales of COVID-19 drug through end of 2022
By Michael Erman and Manas Mishra (Reuters) -Merck & Co Inc on Thursday said its experimental COVID-19 drug could bring in between..
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DS Smith says cardboard box volumes strong; flags higher costs
(Reuters) – Cardboard maker DS Smith said on Thursday its box volume growth has been strong in the first half of the year, suppo..
BUSINESS
Wagamama-owner Restaurant Group names former Cadbury executive Ken Hanna chairman
(Reuters) – Britain’s Restaurant Group, which owns Frankie & Benny’s and Wagamama, on Thursday named former Cadb..
BUSINESS
Aussie dollar firm as bonds tumble, yen looks past BOJ
By Alun John HONG KONG (Reuters) – Central bank policymakers buffeted currency trading on Thursday as the Australian dollar held..
FINANCE
Contactless Payments – The Way of the Future or Security Scare?
By Robert Lincolne, CEO and founder of Paydock. Contactless payments have moved beyond innovation to consumer default globally. Cards,..
TECHNOLOGY
Time to act as cybercriminals hot on the heels of finance sector
Kingsley Hayes, Head of Data Breach at Keller Lenkner UK, the group action and multi-claimant firm currently pursuing a number of data..
TECHNOLOGY
UK maps out return to higher foreign aid spending after COVID cuts
By William James LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s spending on foreign aid should return to 0.7% of economic output by 2024/25, financ..
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Reactions to UK budget
LONDON (Reuters) – UK finance minister Rishi Sunak promised higher public spending and tax cuts as Britain’s economy rebou..
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Sunak promises more spending as UK emerges from pandemic
By David Milliken, Andy Bruce and William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) -Finance minister Rishi Sunak used an upgrade to Britain’s ..
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The Emerging Growth of Specialist Finance in the UK
Specialist finance is an increasingly exciting area of borrowing and money lending that is growing rapidly in the UK. This refers to ..
FINANCE
How Customer Services Has Changed During Covid
With around 109,000 people employed by call centres in the UK, the nation was thrown a curveball when the covid pandemic hit in early ..
BUSINESS
Experts Warn of Buy Now, Pay Later Ahead of Black Friday
With Britons spending more than £8.6 billion during Black Friday last year, this will no doubt be a busy time for shoppers and retaile..
FINANCE
McDonald’s sales soar on higher U.S. prices, newer menu items
By Aishwarya Venugopal and Hilary Russ (Reuters) -Higher U.S. prices and celebrity-themed meals boosted quarterly comparable sales at ..
BUSINESS
Gas price surge pushes Europe’s ceramics industry to breaking point
By Stephen Jewkes, Isla Binnie and Elvira Pollina MILAN (Reuters) – Continental Europe’s $35 billion ceramics industry tho..
BUSINESS
impact.com announces new product functionality for B2B SaaS through partnership with HubSpot
Integration provides direct visibility into partnerships value through the sales funnel London, UK – Wednesday, October 27, 2021 ̵..
BUSINESS
Hackers-for-hire are biggest cybersecurity threat -EU agency
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Hackers-for-hire emerged as the biggest threat to online security in the last 15 months, wi..
BUSINESS
Santander to release some pandemic provisions as profits jump
By Jesús Aguado MADRID (Reuters) -Santander is to release some of the cash it set aside at the height of the pandemic in a sign the Sp..
BUSINESS
In a world of automation, what does the future hold for UK financial services workers?
By James McLeod, VP EMEA, Faethm AI The UK has a rich history when it comes to financial services (pun intended). From the issuance of..
BUSINESS
Slow refunds hurt consumers and brands alike
By William McMullan, Director of eCommerce at Trustly As more of our purchases move online, consumers are spending increasing amounts..
BUSINESS
EU countries split over joint response to energy price spike
By Kate Abnett LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) -European Union countries failed to agree on a bloc-wide response to surging energy prices in an e..
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Christmas saved for expats: Flights frequency to increase by 256%
Wherever you live in the world, Christmas 2020 was a strange one. For people in the UK, it was a strange experience because different ..
FINANCE
Exclusive-German govt expects inflation to surge to 2.9% in 2021 – source
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government expects consumer price inflation to surge to 2.9% this year and ease to 2.2% next year,..
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