Europe

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...

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...

ABN AMRO Bank signs to extend partnership on the Temenos Banking Cloud

Dutch banking giant, ABN AMRO Bank has signed a multi-year subscription extension with Temenos to support customer growth and business expansion on the Temenos Banking Cloud. The extended agreement includes access to Temenos Continuous...

Anapaya and Extreme Networks to deliver SCiON-enabled switches for Swiss finance industry

Anapaya Systems AG has announced its collaboration with Extreme Networks, a cloud-driven networking company based in San Jose, California, to create SCiON-enabled switches for the Swiss finance industry. The new Secure Swiss Finance Network (SSFN) has been...

Pressure on banking and finance sector as expectations drive new Digital Transformation priorities

New research unveils that transitioning communications and processes from physical to digital while reducing costs and supporting changing working models top the list of FS priorities. Here, Gary Harrold, CEO of Swiss Post Solutions, UK & Ireland,...

Banking on Europe as the epitome of cybersecurity and privacy

As one of the largest financial institutions in the world, Standard Chartered Bank is under no illusion that it can’t function without complete protection of its IT infrastructure. Yuval Illuz, Group CISO, COO, Trust, Data and Automation, Operations,...

Call for stricter regulations to reduce IT outages in banking sector, report finds

A UK government committee has warned that regulators must act to reduce an increased amount of IT failures in the financial services sector. The number of incidents has been deemed ‘unacceptable’ by the Treasury Committee. With online banking so...