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First Time Buyers Better Off At Parkside Place

First Time Buyers Better Off At Parkside Place

Recent research from Halifax has revealed that first time buyers are financially better off buying their own home compared to those wh..

Montenegro Implements the IMF’s Enhanced General Data Dissemination System

Montenegro Implements the IMF’s Enhanced General Data Dissemination System

A mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Statistics Department visited Podgorica during June 28–July 4, 2017 to assist the..

BNP Paribas Offers nexo standards Across 14 Countries to Enable Fast, Interoperable and Borderless Card Payment Acceptance for European Merchants

BNP Paribas Offers nexo standards Across 14 Countries to Enable Fast, Interoperable and Borderless Card Payment Acceptance for European Merchants

nexo standards, the open, global association dedicated to removing the barriers present in today’s fragmented global card payment acce..

GlobalPlatform Publishes On-Device NFC Service Management Specification

GlobalPlatform Publishes On-Device NFC Service Management Specification

New standard defines multiple contactless environments on a single device ensuring the predictable behavior of all NFC services  The G..

Lost in transition – how financial services can tap in to an underserved audience

Lost in transition – how financial services can tap in to an underserved audience

Women in transition represent a growing opportunity for financial services providers, as long as they can understand and address their..

Avalon Solutions Group Collaborates with Home Care Association of America to Bring Mobile Payments to the Industry

Avalon Solutions Group Collaborates with Home Care Association of America to Bring Mobile Payments to the Industry

New App Payably to cut costs of payment processing, streamline accounting for home care providers Avalon Solutions Group (Avalon), the..

What are the most valuable coins and notes in the UK?

What are the most valuable coins and notes in the UK?

ByEquilibrium Asset Management On 18th July 2017, on the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, the Bank of England unveiled the ne..

PatSnap launches Playbooks: A cloud-based range of analysis tools to provide IP insight for R&D teams

PatSnap launches Playbooks: A cloud-based range of analysis tools to provide IP insight for R&D teams

Playbooks scenarios include; Patent Pruning, Simulate a Merger, Litigation Threat, Litigation History, Patent Value and more PatSnap, ..

Nearly 40% Of Millennials Don’t Have Enough Money To Invest In Their Future

Nearly 40% Of Millennials Don’t Have Enough Money To Invest In Their Future

New survey finds that 39% of 25-34 year olds have no money left at the end of the month to invest in personal interests, savings or i..

5 business ideas influencing the travel industry

5 business ideas influencing the travel industry

The travel industry, like many other sectors that are deeply influenced by technology, has been undergoing significant change over the..

How to beat online sellers’ fastest growing problem: Chargeback fraud

How to beat online sellers’ fastest growing problem: Chargeback fraud

More online sellers are becoming victims of mass fraudulent buying, new research from King’s Business School reveals. The researchers ..

Institutional investors to increase commercial real estate allocation but Brexit is biggest challenge

Institutional investors to increase commercial real estate allocation but Brexit is biggest challenge

40% of institutional investors plan to increase their investment allocation to European commercial real estate over the next 12 month..

INNIS & GUNN Growth Plans Attract Investment Offer

INNIS & GUNN Growth Plans Attract Investment Offer

The World’s leading consumer goods private equity firm has made an offer to buy a stake in the craft brewer following outstanding busi..

Baillie Gifford champions value for money in active management  

Baillie Gifford champions value for money in active management  

Baillie Gifford, the Edinburgh based investment management partnership, has reduced investment management fees across its range of UK ..

Six top tips on saving for the future

Six top tips on saving for the future

Portafina shares top tips on how to successfully save money Whether you’re in the 30% of Brits currently saving for a holiday1, the ..

When it comes to the home, size does matter…

When it comes to the home, size does matter…

Nearly 20,000 homes were extended in England in the last year* Outside of London, Leeds is striving to develop faster than any other ..

Workday Announces Fiscal 2018 Second Quarter Financial Results

Workday Announces Fiscal 2018 Second Quarter Financial Results

Subscription Revenues of $434.5 Million, Up 42% Year Over Year; Total Revenues of $525.3 Million, Up 41% Year Over Year Workday, Inc. ..

Mazars saves over 2,000 hours annually through sales automation

Mazars saves over 2,000 hours annually through sales automation

UK Accountancy firm sees efficiency savings after implementing SugarCRM platform Mazars, a professional services firm specialising in ..

What your business needs to know about influencer marketing

What your business needs to know about influencer marketing

Carl Reader, author of The Start Up Coach, co-owner of dennisandturnbull.com Recently, there was a story in the media about a bakery w..

Why Advanced Settlement is a key route to core revenue growth

Why Advanced Settlement is a key route to core revenue growth

Valerio Roncone, Head of Markets and Clients, SIX Securities Services Valerio Roncone Financial institutions are increasin..

7 Questions to Ask Before Paying Off Your Mortgage Early

7 Questions to Ask Before Paying Off Your Mortgage Early

Rob Moore, Co-founder at Progressive Property It seems to be many people’s goal in life to retire by having a pension and paying off y..

PSD2 – Driving fintech innovation by giving consumers control of their bank data

PSD2 – Driving fintech innovation by giving consumers control of their bank data

To be by-lined to Craig James, CEO of Neopay Craig James In recent years innovative fintech companies have been driving a ..

Revealed: Banking and finance businesses failing to report data breaches

Revealed: Banking and finance businesses failing to report data breaches

The real extent of the banking and finance sector’s problem with data breaches has been revealed by a survey which suggests 2 in 5 IT ..

Top claims company recovers £128m for UK customers 

Top claims company recovers £128m for UK customers 

First Target Recoveries (FTR), one of the UK’s leading financial solutions companies, has successfully recovered more than £128m for t..

Brexit creates a complicated picture for commodities investors

Brexit creates a complicated picture for commodities investors

Adam Sharpe, Editorial Director, Informa’s Agribusiness Intelligence As the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barniermade clear recently, t..

Board changes

Board changes

Walker Crips Group plc, the listed financial services group, with activities including stockbroking, investment and wealth management,..

Remote KYC: A competitive advantage for mobile only banking

Remote KYC: A competitive advantage for mobile only banking

The required procedures for Know Your Customer (KYC) have finally broken free of branch-based face-to-face meetings, and now enable ba..

Wyelands Bank launches market-leading savings account to support trade, industrial growth and job creation

Wyelands Bank launches market-leading savings account to support trade, industrial growth and job creation

A new bank, set up to help small and medium businesses, has launched a market-leading savings account.  It is available from www.wyela..

FICO Reports a 39 Percent Rise in Debit Cards Compromised at U.S. ATMs and Merchants

FICO Reports a 39 Percent Rise in Debit Cards Compromised at U.S. ATMs and Merchants

Consumers need to stay alert as skimming continues to grow Compromises of ATMs and point-of-sale (POS) devices in the U.S. rose 21 pe..

Artificial Intelligence in Banking: Where to Start?

Artificial Intelligence in Banking: Where to Start?

Daniel Latimore Artificial Intelligence takes many forms in banking, but most firms have yet to begin implementing the technology. Lea..

What your business needs to know about influencer marketing?

What your business needs to know about influencer marketing?

Carl Reader, author of The Start Up Coach, co-owner of dennisandturnbull.com Recently, there was a story in the media about a bakery w..

GDPR: Is the upcoming regulation killing off big data?

GDPR: Is the upcoming regulation killing off big data?

Yves LeRoux, Co-Chair of the (ISC)2 EMEA Advisory Council (EAC). Yves LeRoux Instead of promoting themselves via email cam..

Two-Thirds Of Companies Hiring For Gdpr, Reveals Robert Half Uk

Two-Thirds Of Companies Hiring For Gdpr, Reveals Robert Half Uk

66% of firms hiring permanent employees and 64% are looking for interim or temporary staff to cope with GDPR Analytics, regulatory ..

Hidden Costs of Selling on Amazon

Hidden Costs of Selling on Amazon

Selling your products on Amazon can be a great way to increase sales and grow your business. But people often forget that it isn’t fre..

Automation is disrupting every industry – even agriculture

Automation is disrupting every industry – even agriculture

By Dean McGlone, Sales Director at V1 Dean McGlone It’s no secret that disruptive products and services are emerging to ma..

Open Banking Selects Ping Identity to Underpin the UK’s Open Banking Framework

Open Banking Selects Ping Identity to Underpin the UK’s Open Banking Framework

Ping Identity, the identity security company for over half of the Fortune 100, has been selected byOpen Banking to provide the identit..

IMF Executive Board Concludes the Ex-Post Evaluation of the Second Precautionary and Liquidity Line Arrangement for Morocco

IMF Executive Board Concludes the Ex-Post Evaluation of the Second Precautionary and Liquidity Line Arrangement for Morocco

On August 1, 2017, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Ex Post Evaluation (EPE) of exceptional ..