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Rackspace works with Moody’s to analyze data from 400 million firms

Rackspace Technology, a leading end-to-end multi-cloud solutions company, is to partner with global financial intelligence services specialists Moody’s Analytics over management datasets involving 400 million firms. The partnership is pitched as...

How not to drown in red tape: there’s an app for that

Companies are facing an ever-growing compliance burden as regulations increase and with skilled talent hard to come by, finance teams are trying to do more with less. Businesses in the SME bracket will potentially feel this more than larger corporations who ma...

Family-owned businesses should bring in finance talent and invest in technology to level up

Family-owned businesses (FOBs) are built for resilience. However, when these businesses grow to a certain size, the financial cracks can start to show. A lack of standardised processes, integrated systems and directed growth strategies can make it difficult...

How an oversight committee focused on cybersecurity can protect the value of your business

Cybersecurity is not an area which businesses can ignore, but with budgets being squeezed, it is important to know you are getting a return on your investment. One way to ensure this is to form an oversight committee focusing on investments in cybersecurity....

Banking’s on the money as tech pays its way in the Caribbean

Three examples from the Caribbean show how finance in the region is handling change. Bank of Nevis International (BONI) is first Caribbean bank to launch Tookitaki anti-money laundering tech BONI joins other leading global banks to deploy next-generation...

Credit card fraud soars to a 10-year high

Credit card application fraud rose by 18% in the last quarter of 2022, with fraudsters looking to take advantage of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and take out credit and borrowing in an account holder’s name.  The rise means the overall f...

Network International and Carrefour implement PopID’s face verification platform

Network International, a leading enabler of digital commerce in the Middle East and Africa region, and Carrefour – owned and operated by Majid Al Futtaim in the UAE – have announced that they have implemented Face Pay for payments from PopID.  Cus...

Think tank predicts UK will avoid a ‘technical recession’

The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) has predicted that the UK is likely to avoid a ‘technical recession’ in 2023 but warns that it will certainly feel like a recession for many, due to GDP growth set to remain close to zero and rea...

Northern Accountants builds new R&D tax service underpinned by WhisperClaims’ technology

Northern Accountants, an accountancy general practice in Leeds, had initially decided not to offer an R&D tax service because it is a specialist area. But thanks to the WhisperClaims’ R&D platform, it started to confidently deliver R&D tax s...

anb implements Disaster Recovery orchestration and automation with Kyndryl

anb becomes the first bank in KSA to adopt patented Kyndryl Resiliency Orchestration. anb, a leading banking institution in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), has announced its collaboration with Kyndryl, the world’s largest IT infrastructure services c...

Intellias builds FinTech platform to help FinCompare bridge the gap between SMEs and banks 

Intellias, a global technology partner to Fortune 500 enterprises, has announced its role in supporting Germany-based FinCompare, a financing platform for SMEs, with its full-cycle development of Software-as-a-Service market network and subsequent financing...

What does Making Tax Digital for VAT mean for small businesses?

Gone are the days of submitting your taxes and worrying for weeks about getting a call from HMRC telling you that something isn’t right. With new taxation software, businesses are getting double the peace of mind for half the time. Christian Müller, Chief Fi...