Europe

Luxoft and Finastra to deliver turnkey managed services to banks in EMEA

Finastra, a global provider of financial software applications and marketplaces, has announced a new managed services partnership agreement with Luxoft, a DXC Technology company, to support Finastra’s Kondor customers in...

Bank lending to rise as Britain dodges recession

Banks are expected to increase their lending as the UK economy swerves the predicted recession and the housing market shows small signs of some revival, according to a panel of leading economists. Total loans in the UK are expected to rise 1.2% this year...

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...

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...

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...

Two-fifths of UK key workers have taken on a side hustle or overtime to make ends meet

Two-fifths (43%) of key workers in the UK have been forced to take on additional part-time work on top of their full-time role, or work extra overtime shifts to make ends meet, new research Creditspring shows.  The data shows significantly higher...

Dialect Communications and Paynetics deliver customer engagement services to Europe 

Dialect Communications, a Business Process Outsource (BPO) that offers customer experience (CX) solutions for FinTechs, has partnered with Paynetics, one of Europe’s leading providers of embedded finance and digital banking, to provide...

Business confidence among financial chiefs sees sharpest rise since 2020

Research from Deloitte has revealed that business confidence among chief financial officers has seen its sharpest since 2020, jumping by 8% amid the aftermath of the UK’s Spring Budget.  The survey showed that 25% of chief financial officers were...

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...

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...

Experts discuss how organisations can protect cross-border payments and customer data with GDPR

DLA Piper has published the findings of its annual GDPR and Data Breach Survey. The Europe-wide survey has revealed another record year with a 168% year on year increase in the total value of fines issued across Europe.    Among the largest fines...

ActiveOps’ Financial Crime Solution to reduce risk for banks 

ActiveOps, a management process automation company, has introduced a new solution to support the workforce management needs of Financial Crime operations. The new solution is designed for banks and other financial institutions to help them handle case-based...