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Clarity and structure: the key to GDPR compliance in finance

Clarity and structure: the key to GDPR compliance in finance

Ian Osborne, Vice President UK & Ireland for Shred-it, discusses the challenges the finance industry faces to ensure compliance wi..

What small businesses can learn from the Brexit negotiations

What small businesses can learn from the Brexit negotiations

Tony Hughes, CEO at Huthwaite International, talks negotiation skills, the Brexit approach and what businesses can learn from negotiat..

Three negotiation tactics for small businesses

Three negotiation tactics for small businesses

By Tony Hughes, CEO at Huthwaite International, a leading global provider of sales, negotiation and communication skills development. ..

Upsizing families find new show home at Polo Field

Upsizing families find new show home at Polo Field

Spending more time inside during the winter months can often lead to the inevitable conclusion that growing families need more space. ..

Choosing the best business broadband package for your needs

Choosing the best business broadband package for your needs

Having a fast, reliable broadband connection is now mandatory for running a successful business. In fact, research shows that it can c..

Artificial intelligence can save SMEs £8bn a year

Artificial intelligence can save SMEs £8bn a year

AI spend management application can reduce invoice fraud by 90 percent for British businesses Spend management software provider Compl..

Cutting the fintech innovation cycle

Cutting the fintech innovation cycle

Tobias Neale, Head of Delivery, Contis There’s no shortage of FinTech provider success stories. Consumer brands like Monzo, Starling, ..

Twenty years on, cash ISAs in the UK have fallen short of expectations: what are the alternatives?

Twenty years on, cash ISAs in the UK have fallen short of expectations: what are the alternatives?

By Frazer Fearnhead, founder and CEO of peer to peer lending platform, The House Crowd ISAs have enjoyed renewed popularity in recent ..

Smartr365 launches ‘MortgageKanban’ workflow tool to smooth mortgage application tracking for brokers

Smartr365 launches ‘MortgageKanban’ workflow tool to smooth mortgage application tracking for brokers

Smartr365, the end-to-end fintech mortgage platform, has today launched a new MortgageKanban feature. Developed after months of resear..

First time buyers make their home their (Elephant and) Castle

First time buyers make their home their (Elephant and) Castle

First time buyers are on the rise – the £6 billion of new mortgage lending they received in November was an increase of 9% year ..

Bellway relieve stamp duty stress

Bellway relieve stamp duty stress

Housing affordability in the UK has increased at its fastest rate in eight years, according to Rightmove’s House Price Index for Febru..

Foreign investment in Spain hits 5-year high, with Costa del Sol winning over second home buyers

Foreign investment in Spain hits 5-year high, with Costa del Sol winning over second home buyers

Foreign investors accounted for 68% of Spanish real estate investment in 2018 (Savills Aguirre Newman) Notable uptick in residential ..

Why has Birmingham led UK house price growth since the Brexit vote?

Why has Birmingham led UK house price growth since the Brexit vote?

Birmingham house prices up 16% since June 2016 (Hometrack) City centre population growth of 163% is 2nd fastest in UK (ONS) Extensive..

Three things every payments professional needs to know about PSD2

Three things every payments professional needs to know about PSD2

Myles Dawson, Managing Director Adyen UK If 2018 was the year of GDPR, 2019 is the year of European Payment Services Directive (PSD2) ..

Using 100% Bridging Finance to Grow your Business

Using 100% Bridging Finance to Grow your Business

Holly Andrews,  Managing Director, KIS Finance If you are looking to grow your business by investing in a new premises, or perhaps by ..

How banks can use the latest AI text analytics to improve customer loyalty

How banks can use the latest AI text analytics to improve customer loyalty

By Dan Somers, CEO at Warwick Analytics (www.warwickanalytics.com) A major UK bank was looking to improve its customer loyalty. It was..

If the big banks want to survive past the next 10 years, they need to adapt

If the big banks want to survive past the next 10 years, they need to adapt

Paul Clark, Tandem CTO From the birth of online banking to the beginnings of a cashless society, it’s fair to say that banking as we k..

Criminals and terrorists on the back foot thanks to innovative identity check tech for e-money, prepaid and fintech financial services     

Criminals and terrorists on the back foot thanks to innovative identity check tech for e-money, prepaid and fintech financial services     

New research by Prepaid International Forum (PIF) reveals how innovative technology is successfully thwarting and discouraging crimina..

Shopping for software ahead of Making Tax Digital

Shopping for software ahead of Making Tax Digital

Higor Torchia, UK Country Manager at Vend The Making Tax Digital (MTD) initiative is designed to be a cost and time saving exercise bo..

BeQuant partners with ZagTrader to bring the sophistication of traditional finance tools to the cryptocurrency market

BeQuant partners with ZagTrader to bring the sophistication of traditional finance tools to the cryptocurrency market

Strategic partnership will allow for increased institutional investor engagement with cryptocurrencies Today BeQuant – one of the worl..

Arkadin Appoints Vianney Motte as CFO

Arkadin Appoints Vianney Motte as CFO

Arkadin, a global provider of cloud communication services and an NTT Communications company, has recently announced the firm’s Vice P..

Denmark invites Nord Stream operator to help salvage unidentified object

Denmark invites Nord Stream operator to help salvage unidentified object

The peer-to-peer business lender is giving customers a further unique investment option with an introductory target interest rate of 5..

D2 Legal Technology appoints Jason Pugh as managing director to drive strategic growth

D2 Legal Technology appoints Jason Pugh as managing director to drive strategic growth

Jason Pugh brings a wealth of experience from Clifford Chance, Morgan Stanley, Barclays and Deutsche Bank to D2 Legal Technology The L..

Virgin Orbit says space startup in talks with potential investors

Virgin Orbit says space startup in talks with potential investors

Governor Software Ltd, an innovative governance and oversight solution provider, today announced that it has partnered with CastleHill..

Mojo Mortgages secures £7 million to develop same-day mortgage experience

Mojo Mortgages secures £7 million to develop same-day mortgage experience

NVM Private Equity and Maven Capital Partners back Mojo Mortgages Total funding reaches almost £8million The investment will be u..

The Public Restore UK Heritage Sites With The Oaksmoreisa

The Public Restore UK Heritage Sites With The Oaksmoreisa

Oaksmore’s Innovative Finance ISA allows consumers to invest in the restoration of British historic sites and landmarks The team behi..

Manx Financial Group PLC generates £5.2 million profit, a 71% increase on 2021

Manx Financial Group PLC generates £5.2 million profit, a 71% increase on 2021

Brexit Uncertainty Has Influenced An Increase In Purchases Of Alternative Holiday Homes, With The Majority Planning To Buy A Lodge Or ..

Top UK locations to invest in property during 2019

Top UK locations to invest in property during 2019

Reece Mennie, CEO of Hunter Jones 2018 has seen a drop in the London property market, leaving property investors to look elsewhere. Th..

SPINR launches, bringing a new era of data management to SMEs in financial services

SPINR launches, bringing a new era of data management to SMEs in financial services

Cloud-based data and API integration platform SPINR launches, helping smaller businesses unlock the value hidden in their data SPINR ..

SMEs which receive EU funding significantly outperform those that don’t

SMEs which receive EU funding significantly outperform those that don’t

SMEs which receive EU-guaranteed loans significantly outperform those that don’t, in areas including asset, sales and productivity gro..

UK Consumer Appetite for Digital-Only Banking Grows as Cashless Society Beckons

UK Consumer Appetite for Digital-Only Banking Grows as Cashless Society Beckons

41% of UK consumers are considering a switch to digital-only banking, with Millennials leading the charge  The UK is ripe for a prolif..

Pete Hirsch Joins Blackline As Chief Technology Officer

Pete Hirsch Joins Blackline As Chief Technology Officer

Leading cloud financial controls and automation software company continues executive team expansion with addition of software engineer..

Fingerprint Cards AB signs partnership with Gemalto and secures the world’s first volume order of fingerprint sensors for dual-interface payment cards

Fingerprint Cards AB signs partnership with Gemalto and secures the world’s first volume order of fingerprint sensors for dual-interface payment cards

Fingerprint Cards’ (Fingerprints™) technology has been selected by Gemalto to bring additional performance to its next generatio..

Marden Show Home Showcases Why Buyers Should Move To Kent This Spring

Marden Show Home Showcases Why Buyers Should Move To Kent This Spring

As the Spring fast approaches, a brand-new show home has recently been unveiled at Windsor Meadow in Marden, Kent, to kick off Millwoo..

Lexington Gardens Launch Livens Up London Lifestyles

Lexington Gardens Launch Livens Up London Lifestyles

Surrounded by the buzz of one of London’s newest quarters, Lexington Gardens at Nine Elms by Bellway Homes is set to launch on 28th Fe..

Ashberry Homes Launch River Living Homes In Peters Village

Ashberry Homes Launch River Living Homes In Peters Village

Nestled on the banks of the River Medway, Ashberry Homes has launched Victoria Gardens in Peters Village, Kent.  The development featu..

Yorkshire Bank reveals five key challenges SMEs face in the year ahead

Yorkshire Bank reveals five key challenges SMEs face in the year ahead

Yorkshire Bank, part of CYBG, has commissioned new research in partnership with Telegraph Spark, the commercial content arm of The Tel..