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Barclays and TransferMate provide international payments solution for UK businesses

TransferMate and Barclays have announced a new collaboration to help UK businesses reduce transaction costs and save time. Barclays clients operating in GBP will now be able to invoice their customers in their clients’ local currency in over 60 c...

76% of small businesses feel well-equipped to survive a recession

The majority of US small business owners (72%) are concerned about the impact of a potential recession, however, 76% are confident their business could withstand the downturn, according to the Bank of America 2023 Small Business Owner Report (PDF). The...

CRS payroll automates and empowers pharmaceutical company 

CRS Technologies is a leading provider of solutions and services to the growing human capital management industry. Recently, it partnered with a South African pharmaceutical company to implement its solutions and speed up the organisation’s solutions. Here, C...

Temenos expands relationship with AWS to offer core banking as SaaS     

Temenos has announced that its core banking solutions are now available as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) further to Temenos’ integration of its application on Amazon Web Services (AWS). With this, Temenos offers more choices to its clients as the Temenos B...

AI and financial services: three areas for executives to watch

Karen Oakland, Vice President of Financial Services Marketing, Smart Communications, speaks to us about AI, how ChatGPT benefits the industry, as well as automation is heading and some potential risks that may emerge. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot...

The three Cs of cybersecurity

Strong cybersecurity is the backbone of every organisation. Check Point Software agrees, outlining the three C’s methodology below and why should they be central to an organisation’s strategy moving forward. Cybercriminals are constantly finding new ways to exp...

Survey reveals Italian merchants prefer POSs as the safest, fastest and most convenient tool

As a tool for collecting cash, Italian merchants see Point of Sales (POSs) as the safest (81%), fastest (71%), the best way to meet customer requests (79%) and to simplify the management of the point of sale (70%). This is the snapshot provided by the BVA...

96% of CISOs struggle to get the support required to be resilient against cyberattacks

Trellix has released its latest report, The Mind of the CISO. The research is the result of a survey of global Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) across every major industry and reveals how they work amidst a tumultuous threat landscape, which...

AI will reshape the finance sector – here’s how

AI is revolutionising many sectors, including financial services. Here, Nigel Green, CEO of deVere Group, shares his thoughts about how the technology will become a key player in the industry. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to play an ever-increasing role...

UK Government launches new cybersecurity measures to tackle threats

New cybersecurity measures will increase the UK’s cyber-resilience and protect the UK Government’s essential IT functions from ever-growing threats. Under the new rules, all central government departments will have their cyber-health reviewed annually through new...

Innovative engineering company turns up the heat on future growth plans

A Sheffield-based engineering company, which is helping businesses recoup thousands of pounds in energy costs, is turning up the heat on its future growth plans after calling on help from Finance For Enterprise and the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund....

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...