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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...

One in three finance and accounting professionals admit B2B procurement is broken 

Zip has announced the results of the 2023 Trends in B2B Purchasing survey of 1,056 US-based finance and accounting professionals – director-level and above. Respondents are overwhelmingly eager to move the procurement process away from legacy approval workflo...

How fraudsters attack blockchain technology and how it can be prevented  

Here, Ralph Chammah, CEO at OwlGaze, outlines how fraudsters attack the blockchain and how organisations can overcome these threats.  The global financial crisis of 2008-09 resulted in the development of the Bitcoin whitepaper which introduced the world to ...

General Agents Acceptance Corporation chooses Input 1 Payments as its digital payment platform

General Agents Acceptance Corporation (GAAC), a leading regional premium finance company, has announced that it has chosen Input 1 Payments to process credit and debit card payments for its premium finance business. The insurance industry comprises multiple...

Reinforcing trusted advisor status through technology innovation

Technology can play a leading role for accountants looking to strengthen their tax guidance with regards to Research and Development (R&D) Tax Claims. Mike Dean, Managing Director of WhisperClaims, explains how dedicated cloud-based R&D Tax Claims...

Landsbankinn leveraged Denodo to enable self-service analytics and a data sharing culture

Landsbankinn needed to streamline its data infrastructure and integrate more than 45 data sources, so implemented a logical data warehouse using the Denodo Platform. Davíð Jóhannsson, Head of Information Intelligence at Landsbankinn, said that at the heart of th...

Emirates Islamic launches cash back campaign to incentivise SME trade development in the UAE

Emirates Islamic, one of the leading Islamic financial institutions in the UAE, has launched its ‘Trade More, Earn More’ campaign to incentivise small- and medium-sized businesses to use the bank’s trade solutions suite for optimal import and export busin...

Qashio and Alinma Bank to rollout solutions to KSA customers

Qashio has entered an exclusive partnership with Alinma Bank, one of the youngest and fast-growing banks in KSA, to launch its operations in the Kingdom. This is one of the first times that a KSA bank has joined hands with a FinTech company to provide...

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 ...

e& money, Mastercard enter partnership to transform digital payments for UAE consumers

e& money, the fintech arm and financial super-app of e& life, announced its partnership with Mastercard to transform and evolve the way customers make payments via an exclusive prepaid card – enabling payments anywhere in the world and...

Mastercard brings Google Pay to Kuwait in partnership with Google

According to Mastercard’s New Payments Index 2022, 64% of MENA consumers, compared to 61% globally increased their use of at least one digital payment method in the last year, including digital cards, SMS payments, digital money transfer apps, and instant p...

Be the Business and Lloyds Bank extend major strategic partnership to empower businesses

Be the Business and Lloyds Bank have announced the renewal of their partnership, which first launched in 2019, to help hundreds of UK business leaders achieve sustained productivity growth and success. The partnership will continue to support and empower...