Europe

Royal Bank of Scotland to launch mentor matchmaking for women

Royal Bank of Scotland has partnered with online mentoring platform Digital Boost Upskilling to launch a new, free-to-use, mentor matchmaking service designed for the needs of the next generation of Scottish women in business. Known as MentorMatch, the new...

Two-fifths of UK key workers have taken on a side hustle or overtime to make ends meet

Two-fifths (43%) of key workers in the UK have been forced to take on additional part-time work on top of their full-time role, or work extra overtime shifts to make ends meet, new research Creditspring shows.  The data shows significantly higher...

Dialect Communications and Paynetics deliver customer engagement services to Europe 

Dialect Communications, a Business Process Outsource (BPO) that offers customer experience (CX) solutions for FinTechs, has partnered with Paynetics, one of Europe’s leading providers of embedded finance and digital banking, to provide world-class customer en...

Business confidence among financial chiefs sees sharpest rise since 2020

Research from Deloitte has revealed that business confidence among chief financial officers has seen its sharpest since 2020, jumping by 8% amid the aftermath of the UK’s Spring Budget.  The survey showed that 25% of chief financial officers were feeling b...

How PropTech is key to unlocking the real estate market 

The real estate industry has often been described as ‘archaic’ when adopting new technology. Helen Mutucumarana, Partner, Real Estate, HCR Hewitsons, speaks to us about the status of this sector in the UK and how innovation – particularly PropTech – can revolut...

Securing the cloud with Okta 

Generali is one of the world’s largest and oldest insurance and asset management providers. And after spending years using lengthy manual processes across legacy on-premises infrastructure, Generali GC&C felt it was time to migrate to the cloud. How...

Experts discuss how organisations can protect cross-border payments and customer data with GDPR

DLA Piper has published the findings of its annual GDPR and Data Breach Survey. The Europe-wide survey has revealed another record year with a 168% year on year increase in the total value of fines issued across Europe.    Among the largest fines l...

ActiveOps’ Financial Crime Solution to reduce risk for banks 

ActiveOps, a management process automation company, has introduced a new solution to support the workforce management needs of Financial Crime operations. The new solution is designed for banks and other financial institutions to help them handle case-based...

Verto transforms cross-border B2B payments with ForexPeople partnership

Verto, a leading B2B cross-border payments and Foreign Exchange (FX) enabler, has partnered with ForexPeople to bring secure, fast and seamless global payments to South African businesses buying, selling, or operating globally. With more than US$1.5 billion...

Telefónica Tech study shows 57% of companies plan to invest more in ICT in the next two years

A study from Telefónica Tech, which gathered responses from a total of 810 IT professionals in Spain, Brazil, Germany, the UK and the Republic of Ireland, finds 60% of the IT professionals surveyed recognize that after the pandemic their company is better ...

Finastra and HSBC collaborate to bring Banking-as-a-Service FX capability to mid-tier banks

Finastra and HSBC have announced that they are working together to distribute HSBC’s FX services via Finastra’s FusionFabric.cloud platform under a Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) experience. This collaboration will take...

Lloyds Banking Group works with ServiceNow’s NextGen to find top talent

ServiceNow, a leading digital workflow company that makes the world work better for everyone, has announced that it is working with Lloyds Banking Group as part of its NextGen Professionals Programme. Three participants who have recently completed the...