TECHNOLOGY

Using technology to help bridge the widening financial advice gap

Using technology to help bridge the widening financial advice gap

By Paul McNamara, CEO, EValue An advice gap exists in the UK – and it’s leaving savers stumbling into poor financial decisions, withou..

FinTech At Risk: Why Multi-Factor Authentication Isn’t Always the Answer

FinTech At Risk: Why Multi-Factor Authentication Isn’t Always the Answer

by Brian Costello, VP, Data Strategy from Envestnet, Yodlee On Open Banking’s first birthday earlier this year, many marvelled at how ..

Compleat Software brings digital procurement to SMEs

Compleat Software brings digital procurement to SMEs

Billions of pounds of aggregated spend data used to reduce costs for UK businesses Spend management software provider Compleat Softwar..

The importance of helping customers do things for themselves

The importance of helping customers do things for themselves

How new technologies have transformed clients’ desire for self-service in the luxury lifestyle sector  By David Porter, Managing Director for Strategy..

The Expansion Journey: Insights from a Fintech

The Expansion Journey: Insights from a Fintech

By Conrad Ford, Founder and CEO, Funding Options There’s no doubt that the UK, and specifically London, remains Europe’s fintech capit..

Artificial intelligence: Could it spell the end of paper receipts?

Artificial intelligence: Could it spell the end of paper receipts?

By Deborah Saunby, Sales and Marketing Director at Selenity It might be surprising to hear but many organisations are still reliant on..

Migrate to the cloud without ruining your business

Migrate to the cloud without ruining your business

By Dr. Gavin Scruby, CIO, SmartDebit Why is cloud migration different for SMEs and enterprises? Dr. Gavin Scruby Migration..

Fintech for good – fighting financial exclusion with innovation

Fintech for good – fighting financial exclusion with innovation

Andrew Rabbitt, CEO, incuto Fintech is rarely written about or described in the context of how it can help local communities or low-in..

IT outages – the kryptonite of Finance Services

IT outages – the kryptonite of Finance Services

By Mike Walton, Founder and CEO at Opsview Technology is firmly integrated into business operations and now more than ever before, org..

How technology is improving car safety

How technology is improving car safety

Wasim Bux is Product Manager at the car insurance provider iGO4. Here, he shares his thoughts on how new technology is improving car s..

Digital M&A: Dealing with the problem of protectionism

Digital M&A: Dealing with the problem of protectionism

By Natasha Good Global spending on digital and technology M&A has increased dramatically over the last nine years, (600 per cent t..

The rising risk of encrypted malware

The rising risk of encrypted malware

By Omar Yaacoubi, CEO, Barac The financial sector has long been a prime target for cybercriminals. The kudos associated with breaking ..

Why internal communications is at the centre of digital transformation

Why internal communications is at the centre of digital transformation

Cyrus, MD, EMEA, SocialChorus If you sometimes wonder what your communications team actually does, apart from sharing corporate news, ..

Financial services risk data security breaches with insecure instant messaging

Financial services risk data security breaches with insecure instant messaging

Overwhelming majority of IT decision makers express concerns over security of free instant messaging apps As more people in the financ..

How Accounts Payable in the CloudCan Help Support Growing Startups and SMEs

How Accounts Payable in the CloudCan Help Support Growing Startups and SMEs

Laurent Charpentier, Chief Innovation Officer and COO, Yooz  Every day thousands of startups are created around the world. In the UK, ..

Fintech trends to look out for in 2019

Fintech trends to look out for in 2019

Richard Litchfield is Head of Operations at the peer-to-peer lending platform Lending Works. Here, he explores some of the main trends..

What’s better than OpenAI? Developers shop for alternatives

What’s better than OpenAI? Developers shop for alternatives

Whilst finance and technology have been linked ever since the first ATM in the late 1960s, the advent of mobile internet has truly cha..

Banking turmoil means recession fears are creeping back

Banking turmoil means recession fears are creeping back

By: James Petter, VP International, Pure Storage With the rise of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, data..

Are technological developments outrunning compliance?

Are technological developments outrunning compliance?

Harpreet Singh, Executive Director, Brickendon  There is no doubt that advances in technology are accelerating the collective progress..

83 percent of UK consumers unsure of fintech, according to wide-ranging survey

83 percent of UK consumers unsure of fintech, according to wide-ranging survey

Industry faces uphill PR battle to gain consumer trust More than eight out of ten people in Britain (83 percent) are ‘unsure’ of finte..

6 Technology Trends for Banking in 2019

6 Technology Trends for Banking in 2019

Not long ago, application programming interfaces (APIs) were little more than simple lines of code facilitating communication between ..

Choosing the best business broadband package for your needs

Choosing the best business broadband package for your needs

Having a fast, reliable broadband connection is now mandatory for running a successful business. In fact, research shows that it can c..

Artificial intelligence can save SMEs £8bn a year

Artificial intelligence can save SMEs £8bn a year

AI spend management application can reduce invoice fraud by 90 percent for British businesses Spend management software provider Compl..

Cutting the fintech innovation cycle

Cutting the fintech innovation cycle

Tobias Neale, Head of Delivery, Contis There’s no shortage of FinTech provider success stories. Consumer brands like Monzo, Starling, ..

Smartr365 launches ‘MortgageKanban’ workflow tool to smooth mortgage application tracking for brokers

Smartr365 launches ‘MortgageKanban’ workflow tool to smooth mortgage application tracking for brokers

Smartr365, the end-to-end fintech mortgage platform, has today launched a new MortgageKanban feature. Developed after months of resear..

Criminals and terrorists on the back foot thanks to innovative identity check tech for e-money, prepaid and fintech financial services     

Criminals and terrorists on the back foot thanks to innovative identity check tech for e-money, prepaid and fintech financial services     

New research by Prepaid International Forum (PIF) reveals how innovative technology is successfully thwarting and discouraging crimina..

Shopping for software ahead of Making Tax Digital

Shopping for software ahead of Making Tax Digital

Higor Torchia, UK Country Manager at Vend The Making Tax Digital (MTD) initiative is designed to be a cost and time saving exercise bo..

An ID-eal position: Banks and trusted digital identity

An ID-eal position: Banks and trusted digital identity

Jukka Yliuntinen, Vice President at Giesecke+Devrient Mobile Security and Co-Chair of Mobey Forum’s Digital ID Expert Group The rapid ..

Going Beyond the Buzz in 2019—Understanding ‘Digital’

Going Beyond the Buzz in 2019—Understanding ‘Digital’

Chris Pope, Global VP of Innovation, ServiceNow  There are college degrees in computer science and software engineering that feature v..

The rise of passive authentication in the fight against fraud

The rise of passive authentication in the fight against fraud

By Antony Bream, Global Head of Enterprise Sales, AimBrain In the four years since AimBrain was born, we have seen a meteoric rise in ..

How can you ensure your data retains its commercial value?

How can you ensure your data retains its commercial value?

By Owen Pettiford, SVP of SAP Digital Transformation at BackOffice Associates  Data is now the most valuable asset a business can have..

How financial firms can use technology to combat today’s cybercriminals

How financial firms can use technology to combat today’s cybercriminals

Ross Brewer, VP and MD EMEA, LogRhythm Technology has advanced to the point that today’s financial services organisations, such as bro..

Document admin drains productivity in all businesses, especially those in financial services.

Document admin drains productivity in all businesses, especially those in financial services.

 Mark Geremia, Vice President and General Manager for Dragon Professional and Consumer, explains how technology unlocks new efficienci..

Is a cultural change the key to unlocking the commercial value of data?

Is a cultural change the key to unlocking the commercial value of data?

Data is now the most valuable asset a business can have, and this is perhaps most true in the financial services sector. With a year o..

The FinTech trends that will shape 2019

The FinTech trends that will shape 2019

Jamie Hutton, Chief Technology Officer at Quantexa FinTech is bringing disruption and innovation across the financial services industr..

How digital will transform banking and financial services

How digital will transform banking and financial services

By Neil Svensen, Co-founder & CEO, Rufus Leonard We’re seeing an era-defining shift across all business sectors– and it’s nothing ..

Top 5G Smartphones Launching in 2019

Top 5G Smartphones Launching in 2019

After all the hype and speculation, it finally looks like 5G mobile networks will be coming to the UK later this year. What does this ..