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A wake-up call for merchants this festive season?

A wake-up call for merchants this festive season?

Todd Linden, CEO of Payment Processing – North America, Paysafe Group Consumers are more aware than ever before of issues around secur..

Shawbrook Bank Strengthens Risk Management Capabilities with Hosted Spreadsheet Management Solution

Shawbrook Bank Strengthens Risk Management Capabilities with Hosted Spreadsheet Management Solution

ClusterSeven non-intrusively manages Bank’s most business-critical spreadsheets to minimize operational and reputational risk Shawbroo..

Shinhan Bank secures and simplifies mobile banking service with Trustonic

Shinhan Bank secures and simplifies mobile banking service with Trustonic

New hardware-secured, in-app one-time password (OTP) generator removes the need for consumers to carry separate tokens, while increasi..

Find Your Forever Home At Brambledown  

Find Your Forever Home At Brambledown  

Recent research by Origin, has revealed that three-quarters of Brits are searching for a home to live in for the rest of their lives[1..

Secure A Semi-Detached Home In Harlow With Help To Buy

Secure A Semi-Detached Home In Harlow With Help To Buy

Since its launch in 2013, Help to Buy has successfully supported over 90,000 first-time buyers onto property ladder, with as little as..

ID Finance raises $8.5m via exchange-traded bonds to support growth

ID Finance raises $8.5m via exchange-traded bonds to support growth

Fintech company completes first tranche of $170m bond issuance programme ID Finance, the emerging markets fintech company, today annou..

ThinCats and Hennik Edge to accelerate growth of UK manufacturing with £100m of funding

ThinCats and Hennik Edge to accelerate growth of UK manufacturing with £100m of funding

ThinCats, the alternative finance specialist, is making £100m available to fund and support dynamic manufacturing businesses across th..

Mercia invests £2.5million as part of £3.8million funding round in Medherant

Mercia invests £2.5million as part of £3.8million funding round in Medherant

Mercia Technologies PLC, the national investment group focused on the funding and scaling of innovative technology businesses with hig..

Mobey Forum Offers Guidance on Balancing M-Commerce Security and Usability

Mobey Forum Offers Guidance on Balancing M-Commerce Security and Usability

Mobey Forum has today published a new report exploring the available methods to effectively enable both robust risk management and a f..

The Santa rally – will Christmas bring even more gifts for Bitcoin traders?

The Santa rally – will Christmas bring even more gifts for Bitcoin traders?

December is traditionally one of the best months of the year for shares (Stock Market Almanac) 2015 and 2016 both saw Bitcoin increas..

Top 7 financial services trends that will dominate 2018

Top 7 financial services trends that will dominate 2018

Brickendon, the challenger consultancy, forecasts key trends impacting the financial sector next year Without a doubt, 2017 has been a..

The dos and don’ts of protecting your credit score this Christmas

The dos and don’ts of protecting your credit score this Christmas

No matter how far in advance we prepare for Christmas, many of us will end up with unexpected costs, which often results in over-spend..

Won’t be home this Christmas’

Won’t be home this Christmas’

1.3 million SME owners will miss family festivities this year  A quarter (24%) of small business owners in the UK will miss Christmas ..

Week Commencing 18th could be the busiest expense week ever for UK businesses

Week Commencing 18th could be the busiest expense week ever for UK businesses

Based on historical data analysis of its user data, Concur is predicting that the final week before Christmas will be the busiest for ..

$10 Million To Be Whipped Into Ice Cream Brand Four Winters Following Acquisition 

$10 Million To Be Whipped Into Ice Cream Brand Four Winters Following Acquisition 

New Global Chairman Omar Alkhawaja (L) and co-founder and CEO ZeidZabian (R) lay out ambitious growth plans for the business, includin..

What to expect from markets in 2018 – Colin McLean, SVM Asset Management

What to expect from markets in 2018 – Colin McLean, SVM Asset Management

Comment from Colin McLean, managing director, SVM Asset Management Themes of business disruption and economic stimulus likely to pers..

Micro Focus tackles compliance requirements across GDPR, MiFID II and more with Digital Safe 10

Micro Focus tackles compliance requirements across GDPR, MiFID II and more with Digital Safe 10

Latest cloud archiving solution advances information risk management; unleashes value of data  Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO; NYSE: MFGP) tod..

Why Are More Accountants Using Cloud Based Accountancy?

Why Are More Accountants Using Cloud Based Accountancy?

In recent years, there has been a movement towards using cloud computing technology for accountants. Cloud computing provides accounta..

Mercia invests £3.5million as part of a £5.0million syndicated investment into Intechnica

Mercia invests £3.5million as part of a £5.0million syndicated investment into Intechnica

Mercia Technologies PLC, the national investment group focused on the funding and scaling of innovative technology businesses with hig..

Heightened Regulatory Demands to Drive Technology-led Risk Management Initiatives in 2018

Heightened Regulatory Demands to Drive Technology-led Risk Management Initiatives in 2018

Success of risk management initiatives will be underpinned by best practice-led spreadsheet management  Henry Umney, CEO of ClusterSev..

Machine to human interactions could become ubiquitous in the next 1-4 years

Machine to human interactions could become ubiquitous in the next 1-4 years

“Giving Machines a Voice” Seen as Critical Step in Delivering Exceptional Customer Service A new report by global business communicati..

New Brazilian driving licence adopts CIPURSE™ specification from OSPT Alliance

New Brazilian driving licence adopts CIPURSE™ specification from OSPT Alliance

12 December 2017 – OSPT Alliance’s non-proprietary, open standard for secure transaction solutions, CIPURSE, has been specified for a ..

10 TIPS TO HELP WITH YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA CUSTOMER CARE

10 TIPS TO HELP WITH YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA CUSTOMER CARE

Website Builder UK gives a unique insight into the ride of social media customer care, and how it is slowly adapting into one of the w..

FINANCIAL SERVICES BRINGS OFFSHORE JOBS BACK TO THE UK

FINANCIAL SERVICES BRINGS OFFSHORE JOBS BACK TO THE UK

UK financial services companies are increasingly bringing their offshored operations back to home nations as companies are being affec..

Age of theInternet: ThreeWays to Attract Millennials as An Insurance Company For 2018

Age of theInternet: ThreeWays to Attract Millennials as An Insurance Company For 2018

In this post, Harris Balcombe discusses three tips insurance businesses need to adopt, in order to reach the millennial mindset that w..

Time Saving Hacks for PPC Advertising

Time Saving Hacks for PPC Advertising

In this article, Adzooma, the online advertising platform for small business, offer tips and look at some tactics you can use to save ..

Montreaux To Deliver A Major Regeneration Scheme In Southall 

Montreaux To Deliver A Major Regeneration Scheme In Southall 

Mixed-use developer Montreaux is continuing its expansion with the acquisition of the Middlesex Business Centre in Southall. They now ..

59% of Card-Present Transactions Globally Use EMV® Chip Technology

59% of Card-Present Transactions Globally Use EMV® Chip Technology

EMVCo global transaction volume data for the period July 2016 to June 2017 demonstrates year-on-year growth  Technical body EMVCo has ..

GlobalPlatform Announces 2018 Board of Directors

GlobalPlatform Announces 2018 Board of Directors

Board to drive the association’s vision to create collaborative and open ecosystems in which stakeholders can effectively deliver simp..

Mercia announces first closing of EV Growth II

Mercia announces first closing of EV Growth II

As part of its Half Year Results, Mercia Technologies PLC has announced the first closing of EV Growth II with initial commitments tot..

Young Professionals Should Try Chertsey For Its Affordable Commuter Town Status

Young Professionals Should Try Chertsey For Its Affordable Commuter Town Status

As young professionals are increasingly being priced out of commuter towns in Elmbridge such as Walton-on-Thames, more and more are tu..

Hertsmere Mews Homes In High Demand

Hertsmere Mews Homes In High Demand

After the hugely successful launch of the first phase at Hertsmere Mews, Bellway Homes has only 16 homes available on its first phase ..

The true cost of Christmas: Brits will be spending £475 each on Christmas this year

The true cost of Christmas: Brits will be spending £475 each on Christmas this year

Brits are planning to spend £335 on gifts this festive season The Christmas food bill is on average £140 Cardiff residents topped the..

A fortnightly look at global financial markets

A fortnightly look at global financial markets

By Tom Elliott, deVere Group’s International Investment Strategist Near-term market sentiment: Less nervous, with most risk assets hav..

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Launches Enhanced Due Diligence Platform to Help Businesses Combat Financial Crime

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Launches Enhanced Due Diligence Platform to Help Businesses Combat Financial Crime

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions today announced the launch of its enhanced due diligence (EDD) platform, LexisNexis® EDD Insight. The web-b..

2018 IT Security Predictions-Methods For Attacks, Investment Areas & Cybersecurity Strategies

2018 IT Security Predictions-Methods For Attacks, Investment Areas & Cybersecurity Strategies

By Morey Haber, VP, Technology, BeyondTrust   It’s that time of year again when we look back at what has motivated the market for IT s..

GDPR Countdown – are you ready?

GDPR Countdown – are you ready?

Sion Lewis, CEO of IRIS Accountancy Solutions Last year the UK Government announced the Data Protection Act 1998 will be replaced by G..