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Over 50% of businesses increased their cyber security budget last year amid attacks

Over 50% of businesses increased their cyber security budget last year amid attacks

53% of businesses surveyed by EY say their cyber security budget has increased over the last year Two-thirds of businesses cite ‘cu..

NFC, QR Codes, In-app and beyond…

NFC, QR Codes, In-app and beyond…

‘Mobile payments’ is a broad term. As the ecosystem has developed, various new technologies have emerged to change the way we act and ..

Voice assistants set to revolutionize commerce and become a dominant mode of consumer interaction in the next three years

Voice assistants set to revolutionize commerce and become a dominant mode of consumer interaction in the next three years

User spending via voice assistants is expected to grow as much as 6x in three years Capgemini’s Digital Transformation Institute has ..

The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange Announces Public Token Sale Event To Create World Leading Licensing and Regulation Standards In The Industry

The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange Announces Public Token Sale Event To Create World Leading Licensing and Regulation Standards In The Industry

Launch follows successful pre-sale which raised over $21 million USD The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX), which aims to be a world..

£12m funding record sets ThinCats up for growth in 2018

£12m funding record sets ThinCats up for growth in 2018

ThinCats, the alternative finance specialist, is set to achieve new levels of growth over the next 12 months after celebrating a stell..

RedCrow Announces Partnership To Connect Healthcare Startups with Equity Crowdfunding

RedCrow Announces Partnership To Connect Healthcare Startups with Equity Crowdfunding

Combining The Innovation Institute Inc.’s 200k social network pool with investors RedCrow Inc., an equity investing platform with a un..

Grm Pioneers New Actionable Analytics Tool

Grm Pioneers New Actionable Analytics Tool

GRM’s innovative next-level analytics tool is transforming businesses GRM Information Management, a leader in data management, has int..

Cardano launches ADA futures on BitMEX  

Cardano launches ADA futures on BitMEX  

ADA tokens now tradeable on BitMEX, a leading cryptocurrency trading platform Cardano Foundation, IOHK and Emurgo, the three partners ..

Regional Thai property markets look set to excite investors as 2018 gets underway

Regional Thai property markets look set to excite investors as 2018 gets underway

Thailand tourism sector to grow by 6.7% per annum for next decade (World Travel and Tourism Council) Condominium prices leading overa..

Tungsten Network Finance accelerates growth

Tungsten Network Finance accelerates growth

Tungsten Corporation plc, the global e-invoicing, purchase order services, analytics and financing company, today provides the followi..

Model Risk and Model Governance in the Age of the Fintech

Model Risk and Model Governance in the Age of the Fintech

By Francesco Scarnera To many, RegTech can be an odd choice of phrase – after all, technology and regulation are all too often at logg..

Running a small finance business ‘detrimental to physical health’

Running a small finance business ‘detrimental to physical health’

More than a quarter of financial SME owners have had a health scare since starting their business More than a quarter (27%) of small f..

GDPR litigation risks for financial institutions

GDPR litigation risks for financial institutions

With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Protection Bill at the forefront of data protection regulatory changes in ..

Investors will need ‘risk assets’ to beat inflation in 2018

Investors will need ‘risk assets’ to beat inflation in 2018

Investors now have little alternative but to support risk assets if they want to beat inflation, affirms one of the world’s largest in..

Innovation in digital payments sees Turkey set to become cashless

Innovation in digital payments sees Turkey set to become cashless

Mr. H. Bader Arslan – Secretary General, Turkish Exporters Assembly With an environment well suited for innovation and entrepreneurshi..

AI, Cloud Control and Data Stewardship – Key Factors in Making the Most of Your Organisations’ Data in 2018

AI, Cloud Control and Data Stewardship – Key Factors in Making the Most of Your Organisations’ Data in 2018

By Alex McMullan, EMEA CTO, Pure Storage In the same way that a CFO sets out the strategy and framework for investment and cash flow, ..

The Business Benefits Of A Compliant ICO

The Business Benefits Of A Compliant ICO

By Gordon Harrison, ICO Specialist& Business Development Manager, EMEA, Jumio The cryptocurrency sphere has recently been transfo..

ABLOY UK enhances expertise with new appointments

ABLOY UK enhances expertise with new appointments

Security expert Abloy UK has appointed three new members to its team, Duncan Rigby as Technical Sales and Specification Manager, Geoff..

Datawallet Partners with Indorse and Steemit, Allows Users to Earn Profit for Sharing Data

Datawallet Partners with Indorse and Steemit, Allows Users to Earn Profit for Sharing Data

Leading blockchain social networks to be added as data sources in new Datwallet app Datawallet, a leading C2B blockchain-based data ex..

Convergence is key for the future of mobile payments

Convergence is key for the future of mobile payments

By Shane Leahy, CEO of Tola Mobile From the payments sector to the world of marketing, many industries have been investing both time a..

Disruptive Strategies Required to Transform UK and European Banks’ Lacklustre Profitability, Warns New Study

Disruptive Strategies Required to Transform UK and European Banks’ Lacklustre Profitability, Warns New Study

A new study of the 50 largest banking groups in the UK and Europe calls for disruptive management strategies to reverse lacklustre pro..

Protecting Against the Threat of Insider Trading Cyber Attacks

Protecting Against the Threat of Insider Trading Cyber Attacks

Alexander Beattie, Enterprise Director UK & Ireland, Anomali The massive data breach at Equifax, in which the personal information..

Dynamic Discounting and the New Cash Management Imperative

Dynamic Discounting and the New Cash Management Imperative

By Nilay Banker, founder and CEO, Inspyrus Current low interest rates are forcing CFOs and enterprise finance departments to work hard..

a PSD2: the real regulatory impact on marketplaces offering payment services

a PSD2: the real regulatory impact on marketplaces offering payment services

Brook Kennedy, Strategic Market Development Manager at Modulr Finance Marketplace platforms, or multi-sided businesses, are creating..

Far-Reaching Consequences: The Implications of MiFID II

Far-Reaching Consequences: The Implications of MiFID II

Harpreet Singh, Director, Brickendon The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, aka MiFID II, remains one of the most talked abou..

NICE Actimize Launches Compliancentral, Industry’s First End-to-End Communications and Trade Compliance Platform

NICE Actimize Launches Compliancentral, Industry’s First End-to-End Communications and Trade Compliance Platform

The financial services industry and public sector are aligned in their concerns about data and system security, with both citing a fea..

Brexit, KYC and UX – The Forecast for Financial Services in 2018

Brexit, KYC and UX – The Forecast for Financial Services in 2018

Muhammad Asim, Director at Arro Money, discusses his take on the Fintech year ahead.  2017 was a disruptive year for the banking secto..

Buy-to-let expert shares 5 predictions for UK property in 2018 

Buy-to-let expert shares 5 predictions for UK property in 2018 

With 2018 now upon us, anyone thinking about investing in bricks and mortar wants to know what’s going to happen over the next 1..

Insurtech: appealing to the Data Generation

Insurtech: appealing to the Data Generation

Paul Ridge, Banking & Insurance Specialist,  SAS UK & Ireland, discusses the new trend of insurtech and how incumbent players ..

Camberwell Offers Buyers Rich Pickings As Southwark Is Revamped

Camberwell Offers Buyers Rich Pickings As Southwark Is Revamped

In a review of London’s housing market, CBRE’s new Borough by Borough report highlighted the rich benefits that come with living in So..

Londoners Take A Breath Of Fresh Air At Feature 17

Londoners Take A Breath Of Fresh Air At Feature 17

According to a recent report commissioned by the Greater London Authority[1], The London Borough of Waltham Forest has a 26 per cent p..

Start 2018 In Style At South Oxhey Central

Start 2018 In Style At South Oxhey Central

Award-winning home builder, Countryside is preparing to launch the first phase of its latest development, South Oxhey Central. Reinvig..

Say Hello ToNuvo – The Uk’s First Digital Mortgage Broker Powered By Chatbot Technology

Say Hello ToNuvo – The Uk’s First Digital Mortgage Broker Powered By Chatbot Technology

Nuvo to revolutionise the mortgage market with the launch of chatbot digital finance broker  UK Fintech disruptor, Nuvo, has taken fin..

Make Your FP&A Future-Ready:In With the New – Five Critical Updates to The Old Budget Cycle

Make Your FP&A Future-Ready:In With the New – Five Critical Updates to The Old Budget Cycle

By Ron Baden, chief product officer at Host Analytics. Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) is supposed to help a business prepa..

A roadmap to banking innovation

A roadmap to banking innovation

By Rajashekara V Maiya, Associate Vice President & Head of Product Strategy – Infosys Finacle  In recent years, traditional retail..

Scaling a Small Data Team with the Power of Machine Learning

Scaling a Small Data Team with the Power of Machine Learning

How DAZN uses AWS and Dataiku to make Big Data with a Small Team and allow their non-technical staff to perform advanced customer segm..

3 Reasons Why Businesses Get Stuck At The Starting Gate Of Digital Transformation

3 Reasons Why Businesses Get Stuck At The Starting Gate Of Digital Transformation

By Nick Pike, VP UK and Ireland, OutSystems If any more evidence were needed that a fire has been lit under digital transformation, th..