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FIX Trading Community releases Recommended Practices for Commission Unbundling as required by MiFID II

FIX Trading Community releases Recommended Practices for Commission Unbundling as required by MiFID II

Providing definitive guidelines to assist firms with unbundling prior to January 2018 FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-..

New crypto card and exchange to launch for London market

New crypto card and exchange to launch for London market

UK consumers will soon be able to spend cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin in their local supermarket with a unique new cryptocurrency c..

Finance Sector Faces Three-Pronged Challenge On Data Security

Finance Sector Faces Three-Pronged Challenge On Data Security

-GDPR remains the priority but financial services also facing challenge from PSD2 and MiFID II-  Steve Inglessis In the ea..

Ten habits of a successful accounts payable department

Ten habits of a successful accounts payable department

An effective accounts payable (AP) department is an essential part of any business, helping maintain healthy finances and happy suppli..

Savvy Millennials Seek New Homes Coming Soon To Tower Hamlets

Savvy Millennials Seek New Homes Coming Soon To Tower Hamlets

A recent report from The House Shop has found that taking into consideration affordability, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets is one..

HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS AT ST CLEMENTS LAKES

HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS AT ST CLEMENTS LAKES

With the festive season fast approaching, the dream to celebrate Christmas in a new home is still within reach. Bellway Homes’ is offe..

Cryptomathic Publishes Digital Signatures for Dummies

Cryptomathic Publishes Digital Signatures for Dummies

New book offers easy-to-digest guidance and advice on digital signature deployment and management Digital signature pioneer, Cryptoma..

AI Technology To Enhance Business Deals In Imprima’s Virtual Data Rooms

AI Technology To Enhance Business Deals In Imprima’s Virtual Data Rooms

A new partnership between Imprima and ZyLAB will offer customers advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tools to accelerate preparation..

Who remembers 2013?  Bitcoin’s first amazing bull run

Who remembers 2013?  Bitcoin’s first amazing bull run

By James Trescothick, Senior Global Strategist For me, 2013 has long stayed in my memory as a year that affected me personally –..

FBG Capital and Zilliqa Announce Strategic Partnership

FBG Capital and Zilliqa Announce Strategic Partnership

One of world’s leading blockchain digital asset management firms announces a strategic partnership with the high-throughput blockchain..

Fido Alliance Launches European Working Group To Expand Use Of Authentication Standards

Fido Alliance Launches European Working Group To Expand Use Of Authentication Standards

Organisation to help companies meet emerging regulations and growing requirements for simpler, stronger user authentication The FIDO A..

Software AG Chooses Workday Human Capital Management for HR Transformation

Software AG Chooses Workday Human Capital Management for HR Transformation

Digital Business Platform Provider Moves HR Into the Cloud to Streamline Global Processes Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), a leader in en..

Incoming Starbucks boss to bring consumer insight to coffee culture

Incoming Starbucks boss to bring consumer insight to coffee culture

Joint proposition combining PSD2 compliant payments and data aggregation offered to EU banks Token, Inc., a turnkey open banking platf..

Half of sales reps view prospects’ Facebook profiles before meetings

Half of sales reps view prospects’ Facebook profiles before meetings

Social media channels have become a crucial part of sales teams’ prep time, according to research from SugarCRM More than half (53%) o..

Federal Bank drives “Digital India” vision with Intellect Transaction Banking

Federal Bank drives “Digital India” vision with Intellect Transaction Banking

Intellect’s integrated Digital Transaction Banking (DTB) platform will help Federal Bank provide new, enhanced transaction banking ser..

Public Cloud – Part of the Strategy for Middle East Organizations but Not The Strategy

Public Cloud – Part of the Strategy for Middle East Organizations but Not The Strategy

Yousuf Khan, CIO, Pure Storage For consumers and businesses alike, digital technology has proven disruptive. Consumers can, in theory,..

The Tall Group Extends Partnership With Santander With New Scanner Contract

The Tall Group Extends Partnership With Santander With New Scanner Contract

The TALL Group of Companies, the UK leader in the provision of secure paper and electronic payment solutions, has been awarded a signi..

South-West finance expert joins ThinCats

South-West finance expert joins ThinCats

ThinCats, the alternative funding specialist, has announced a senior hire to cover the South-West region. Alison Whistance..

UK firm Yoti launches digital identity app to make proving ID simpler, faster and safer

UK firm Yoti launches digital identity app to make proving ID simpler, faster and safer

UK tech entrepreneurs personally invest £23m into a new, digital identity app aiming to fix the outdated identity system Yoti is alre..

Datum raises over US$4m in ICO first week and adds a trio of tech heavyweights to its Advisory Board

Datum raises over US$4m in ICO first week and adds a trio of tech heavyweights to its Advisory Board

ZUG, Switzerland, NEW YORK and BEIJING, Nov 10, 2017 – Datum, the upcoming marketplace for all types of data, has revealed that ..

NPIF announces 100th investment from £400m fund

NPIF announces 100th investment from £400m fund

The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) has completed its 100th deal by providing £700,000 worth of equity finance to Microbios..

Attracting millennials to financial services is a challenge

Attracting millennials to financial services is a challenge

95% of financial services leaders admit it’s challenging to find skilled Millennials Organisations in financial services see salary a..

Top hacks how to save money on business travel

Top hacks how to save money on business travel

Although we are living in an increasingly digitalised world, business travel still remains incredibly important because no matter how ..

EU regulator backs two Omicron-adapted COVID boosters

EU regulator backs two Omicron-adapted COVID boosters

Alan Levine, Security Advisor to Wombat Security Alan Levine No one is safe from the threat of cyber-crime, but attacks ag..

Storefronting in investment banking – technology and the rise of ‘window-shopping’

Storefronting in investment banking – technology and the rise of ‘window-shopping’

Abhijit Deb, Head of Banking & Financial Services, UK & Ireland, Cognizant  People’s interactions with their banks have underg..

Are financial institutions making the most out of their customer experience?

Are financial institutions making the most out of their customer experience?

Bjoern Ekner, Senior Director at Jabra Digitalization has changed the way businesses operate, and not surprisingly, financial institut..

AI-based fraud scoring boosts loan approval rate by 50 per cent for ID Finance

AI-based fraud scoring boosts loan approval rate by 50 per cent for ID Finance

 Fintech company says collaboration between risk and security teams key to innovation in credit scoring  ID Finance, the emerging mark..

PSD2 — an enabler for customer retention, attracting prospects, and increasing value

PSD2 — an enabler for customer retention, attracting prospects, and increasing value

By Julius Abensur, Industry Director – Finance, Relay42 The role that a bank plays in our lives today is much different than in the pa..

Ping Identity Releases Enhanced Capabilities In Countdown To PSD2 And Open Banking

Ping Identity Releases Enhanced Capabilities In Countdown To PSD2 And Open Banking

Latest PingFederate Enhancements Help Organisations Drive Competitive Edge and Comply with New Industry Standards Ping Identity, the l..

Q&A with Rachael Donnelly, Associate Solicitor in the Property Litigation team at Blacks Solicitors LLP, on the key things to look out for when buying a leasehold property

Q&A with Rachael Donnelly, Associate Solicitor in the Property Litigation team at Blacks Solicitors LLP, on the key things to look out for when buying a leasehold property

What is a leasehold property? “When you buy a leasehold interest in a residential property, you are also entering into a contractu..

Q&A with entrepreneurs and founders Matt Fox & Dan Harrison about their start-up success with Snaptrip.com

Q&A with entrepreneurs and founders Matt Fox & Dan Harrison about their start-up success with Snaptrip.com

In May 2014 Matt Fox and Dan Harrison successfully launched last minute rental provider, Snaptrip, into the UK’s self-catering holiday..

80% of Brits have thought about starting their own business

80% of Brits have thought about starting their own business

Lack of money was found to be the biggest barrier for starting up a business Londoners were the most entrepreneurial in the UK, with ..

VAT in the Gulf Corporation Council—Accelerating Compliance with the Right ERP Platform

VAT in the Gulf Corporation Council—Accelerating Compliance with the Right ERP Platform

By Monzer Tohme, regional vice president, Middle East & Africa, Epicor Software The clock is ticking. In January 2018, the UAE and..

How to kick a bad smartphone habit

How to kick a bad smartphone habit

Learn to avoid the top ten worst mobile manners Do you still use TXT SPK, play Candy Crush at full volume or keep the key tones on you..

POWERING PURCHASING WITH PROCESS MINING

POWERING PURCHASING WITH PROCESS MINING

Bastian Nominacher, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Celonis  Bastian Nominacher Where did this invoice come from? And why was an or..

Workday announces Workday Rising Europe 2017

Workday announces Workday Rising Europe 2017

Executive keynote to be broadcast live from annual customer conference in Europe Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), a leader in enterprise ..

Standard Chartered rolls out digital bank in hot Singapore market

Standard Chartered rolls out digital bank in hot Singapore market

New search trend analysis from digital media agency, equimedia, has revealed that fintech banking providers are potentially missing ou..