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Balancing Cybersecurity and Individual Privacy – New Whois Data Protections in 2018

Balancing Cybersecurity and Individual Privacy – New Whois Data Protections in 2018

By Tim Chen, CEO, DomainTools Who is data is at a crossroads in 2018, under duress from EU data protection regulations, from within IC..

The CFO and mastering the art of Digital Process Transformation

The CFO and mastering the art of Digital Process Transformation

Shantanu Ghosh is global business leader, CFO Services, and Transformation, at Genpact, a global professional services firm focusing i..

Getting Authentication Right – A Challenge For The Financial Sector

Getting Authentication Right – A Challenge For The Financial Sector

By Brett McDowell, executive director of the FIDO Alliance  What is online authentication?  For the sake of this article; online authe..

BAWAG Group and Spotcap announce strategic partnership to boost small business lending in Austria

BAWAG Group and Spotcap announce strategic partnership to boost small business lending in Austria

Online lender Spotcap and BAWAG Group announce a market-leading strategic partnership to offer online loans and credit lines to give A..

Three-quarters of brands experienced trademark infringement in past year

Three-quarters of brands experienced trademark infringement in past year

Four in 10 companies report trademark infringement has increased CompuMark, the industry leader for trademark research and protection,..

CES 2018 – How will new technologies affect markets?

CES 2018 – How will new technologies affect markets?

By Soteris Phoraris, Market Commentator for easyMarkets We frequently hear the idiom “The future is now!” especially in th..

Why Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Technology is the Future of the Gaming Industry

Why Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Technology is the Future of the Gaming Industry

By Egor Gurjev, CEO at Playkey Gamers all over the world are unable to play some of the biggest titles in the industry, due to the lac..

The Banking and Financial sector ends the year on a high, new research reveals

The Banking and Financial sector ends the year on a high, new research reveals

The UK’s Banking and Financial sector has ended the year on a positive note, with the growth of new companies up 18.56% to 5,775 and f..

Dash Kicks Off 2018 With Three Business Partnerships, Teaming Up With Crypto Payments Processor GoCoin, Leading Adtech Firm Strike Social, and Mobile Recharge Provider Piiko

Dash Kicks Off 2018 With Three Business Partnerships, Teaming Up With Crypto Payments Processor GoCoin, Leading Adtech Firm Strike Social, and Mobile Recharge Provider Piiko

Integrations and partnerships flood in for the top digital currency for payments Dash, the top digital currency for payments, today an..

Nucleus Vision Adds Blockchain and Technology Experts as Advisors

Nucleus Vision Adds Blockchain and Technology Experts as Advisors

Microsoft executive Ausaf Ahmad, blockchain veterans Jaron Lukasiewicz and David Wachsman join as advisors Nucleus Vision, the blockch..

Snapped Up – Snaptrip.Com Acquires Last Minute Cottages Limited And Closes A £2.1 Million Investment Round

Snapped Up – Snaptrip.Com Acquires Last Minute Cottages Limited And Closes A £2.1 Million Investment Round

Last minute holiday rental provider, Snaptrip.com has secured a £2.1 million investment round and completed the acquisition of Last Mi..

Senior Managers & Certification Regime Presents an Opportunity for IT Transformation to Insurers

Senior Managers & Certification Regime Presents an Opportunity for IT Transformation to Insurers

By Henry Umney, CEO, ClusterSeven The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), via its recently published proposals to extend the Seni..

Is it time to get off the cyber investment train?

Is it time to get off the cyber investment train?

With Fintech thriving and more than $1bin (£760m) already been ploughed into technology firms by venture capital investors hoping to d..

MiFID II: How Regulation Updates will Change Finance Communications

MiFID II: How Regulation Updates will Change Finance Communications

Alex Tebbs, founder, VIA The impending updates to the MiFID regulation will affect all finance businesses, from the smallest startups ..

Banking in 2018: Plus ça change

Banking in 2018: Plus ça change

Alex Kwiatkowski, Senior Industry Consultant, Global Banking Practice, SAS UK Another year’s over, a new one’s just begun. And it’s ti..

The digital transformation of the financial services: what to expect in 2018

The digital transformation of the financial services: what to expect in 2018

By Jim Schulenberg, Market Development Executive, financial Services, DMI 2017 saw many functions within the finance industry being tr..

Top 10 financial services roles set for highest salary increases in 2018

Top 10 financial services roles set for highest salary increases in 2018

High- performing financial professionals remain in high demand as the skills deficit grows in the financial sector The Robert Half 201..

New Squirro solution uses power of AI to bring deep customer insight to financial services firms

New Squirro solution uses power of AI to bring deep customer insight to financial services firms

Squirro for Corporate Financial Services uses AI to maximise the potential of unstructured data, unearthing new deals and improving th..

Coindirect makes digital currency trading simple, now live in UK, South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya

Coindirect makes digital currency trading simple, now live in UK, South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya

Coindirect.com, the easiest and fastest way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies online, is pleased to announce the initial launch of its ..

Collinson Group strengthens its European team with appointment of Mike Caidan

Collinson Group strengthens its European team with appointment of Mike Caidan

Caidan joins as European Sales Director after four years leading global client relationships with Allianz Global leader in influencing..

Bank of Baroda’s new digital Supply Chain Finance solution from iGTB to open up raft of working capital opportunities for clients of all sizes

Bank of Baroda’s new digital Supply Chain Finance solution from iGTB to open up raft of working capital opportunities for clients of all sizes

India’s International Bank now offers its extensive client base a host of automated supply chain finance products via iGTB’s platform,..

Broadridge Enhances Focus on Global Growth, Creates Broadridge International to Accelerate Next Wave of Growth in EMEA and Asia Pacific

Broadridge Enhances Focus on Global Growth, Creates Broadridge International to Accelerate Next Wave of Growth in EMEA and Asia Pacific

Tom Carey to Head International Efforts and Join Executive Committee Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) today announced th..

PatSnap enhances access to patent insights with Smart Search

PatSnap enhances access to patent insights with Smart Search

PatSnap, the world’s leading provider of research and development (R&D) analytics, has today announced the launch of Smart Search,..

Canada’s Volaris Group acquires Sicap

Canada’s Volaris Group acquires Sicap

The Canadian Volaris Group Inc. has acquired Sicap Schweiz AG, including of all its subsidiaries. Sicap will become a Volaris Business..

Workday expands security toolset with Duo partnership

Workday expands security toolset with Duo partnership

Integration of Duo’s multi-factor authentication strengthens customer security to help ensure the right people access Workday Workday,..

Houlihan Lokey Acquires Quayle Munro Limited And Establishes A New Global Data & Analytics Group

Houlihan Lokey Acquires Quayle Munro Limited And Establishes A New Global Data & Analytics Group

Acquisition substantially expands service offering to assist clients in dynamic, growing sector Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI), the g..

First national lettings business to help ‘Generation Rent’ get on the housing ladder

First national lettings business to help ‘Generation Rent’ get on the housing ladder

No Agent partners with Experian, reporting rental payment history to enhance tenants’ credit histories Calum Brannan..

5 tips for raising investment as a start-up

5 tips for raising investment as a start-up

Sebastian Lewis, CEO at Mettrr Technologies There are myriad challenges to building and running a successful start-up. From drawing up..

Solgari announces new investment in Product Enhancement and Sales Channel Acceleration

Solgari announces new investment in Product Enhancement and Sales Channel Acceleration

Accelerating market demand for cloud solutions that provide all digital communications & address key regulatory requirements  Sol..

UK job vacancies fall to post-pandemic levels, REC says

UK job vacancies fall to post-pandemic levels, REC says

By Iya Datikashvili, Director, Brickendon The UK is becoming an automated economy and we believe 2018 will be the year that automation..

Eight in 10 Bankers See Open Banking as an Opportunity

Eight in 10 Bankers See Open Banking as an Opportunity

Banks are re-thinking their business models and embracing fintech, in search for profitability, Temenos-Accenture reportt finds Eight ..

Bitcoin Traders Can Now Trade on Lows AND Highs!

Bitcoin Traders Can Now Trade on Lows AND Highs!

Traders shorting Bitcoin with CFDs now have an investment option for when they anticipate the value of the currency going down (AxiTr..

Giving the Control of the Payment Process Back to Consumers

Giving the Control of the Payment Process Back to Consumers

By Shane Leahy, CEO of Tola Mobile Handing control of the mobile payment process back to consumers will help revolutionise the fintech..

Teleopti leads Cloud WFM space with strengthened Microsoft collaboration and Azure usage

Teleopti leads Cloud WFM space with strengthened Microsoft collaboration and Azure usage

Teleopti, an industry leader for agent-engaging Workforce Management (WFM) solutions, is strengthening its already leading presence in..

IT team ‘in the dark’: The impact on banking

IT team ‘in the dark’: The impact on banking

Carl Helling, Regional Director, Financial Services, UK & Ireland at Riverbed Technology Over the last decade, banks have focused ..

Lord Alan Sugar named UK’s ‘Most searched for’ Director for second year running

Lord Alan Sugar named UK’s ‘Most searched for’ Director for second year running

As other high-profile names fall to the bottom  Business mogul, Lord Alan Sugar has been revealed as the UK’s ‘most searched for’ comp..

iGTB signals US growth ambitions with transformation strategist and business development hire

iGTB signals US growth ambitions with transformation strategist and business development hire

Ravi Pandit joins corporate banking technology specialist iGTB from Backbase, where he oversaw a significant increase in their US cove..