Sector Verticals

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...

Paul Payne, CTO, SaaScada 

We talk to Paul Payne, CTO, SaaScada, about life inside and outside of the office, as well as his predictions for areas of investment within finance.   Can you tell us about your current position?  I joined SaaScada as CTO in June 2021 with responsibility fo...

Five top tips to recession-proof your company 

Gill McAteer, Director of Employment Law at Citation, speaks to us about the five ways businesses can prepare for a recession and minimise the damage it may cause.   Recession is a word that guarantees to send shivers down the spine of business owners. With int...

Aptitude Software and Microsoft integrate Fynapse with Dynamics 365 Finance  

Aptitude Software, a specialist provider of finance digitalisation and subscription management solutions, has announced the integration of Fynapse, Aptitude’s fully automated finance management platform, with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance. The...

MSCI and Google Cloud to build a secure global investment data platform in the cloud 

MSCI has announced a strategic alliance with Google Cloud to build a cloud-native investment data acquisition and development platform, aimed at delivering data, insights and solutions to power better and faster investment decision-making.  Built...

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...

What can banks do to better protect themselves and their customers? 

Which? research has found that basic security flaws on some of the biggest banks’ websites and apps are putting consumers at increased risk of falling victim to fraud.  The research comes after 29,102 cases of remote banking fraud were reported to UK Fi...

Purpl launches digital wallet on Mambu

Purpl, a remittance and cash-out aggregator, has announced its successful go-live on Mambu’s cloud-native banking platform. Having secured its digital wallet licence, Purpl’s new offering will provide Lebanese citizens at home and abroad with seamless ways of ...

JSE launches Flagship Investment Challenge

Virtual trading floors for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s (JSE) flagship financial literacy programme – the JSE Investment Challenge – have officially opened as the competition marks a 50-year milestone.  Designed to highlight the importance of inves...

The latest trends in crypto and how businesses can capitalise on them  

Anthony Lesoismier, Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer at SwissBorg, speaks to us about his cryptocurrency predictions for the coming year and how businesses can best take advantage of them.   With the advent of cryptocurrencies and the various e...

Hybrid working in financial services: the roadmap to Digital Transformation 

Sam Wilson, UK Country Manager at Serviceware, discusses the path to achieving growth and innovation required of the financial services sector to accommodate the needs of both customers and employees.  Working practices changed radically in 2020, but not just for ...

Will women take over the financial markets?

For years, a woman operating in the financial markets was someone unique. However, recently there has been a dynamic change and women investors are increasing year by year. XTB Group tells us more. The last three years have been a time when financial...