The Bank of England has raised interest rates a further 0.5% to 1.75%, the highest jump in 27 years, and has warned that recession could be just around the corner. Lee Murphy, Managing Director at The Accountancy Partnership, explains what this...

Workday, a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, has announced that Physicians Mutual has selected Workday Financial Management, Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday Accounting Center and Workday Prism Analytics to help...

The McKinsey 2020 Digital Payments Consumer Survey found that digital payments continue to grow in adoption and relevance. Smart solutions that offer accessible and easy digital transactions are increasingly becoming essential to consumer...

Research from Intuit QuickBooks highlights the landscape of menopausal effects on both women and men in the workplace, including stigma and lack of supportive measures. One in five (20%) women in tech or FinTech who have experienced menopausal symptoms have...

Xpence – one of the MENAP region’s first financial management platform with embedded business banking solutions for SMEs – announces the launch of its expense management solution in the UAE – the second of five strategic markets it...

Verto, a leading B2B cross-border payments and Foreign Exchange (FX) enabler, has partnered with ForexPeople to bring secure, fast and seamless global payments to South African businesses buying, selling, or operating globally. With more than US$1.5 billion...

Leading insurance groups, Prudential and Google Cloud have announced a strategic partnership to enhance health and financial inclusion for communities across Asia and Africa. Under this alliance, Prudential will leverage Google Cloud’s data analytics...

Deutsche Bank and Kyndryl, one of the world’s largest IT infrastructure services providers, has announced a new agreement under which the bank will extend one of the largest and longest-running vendor contracts in the financial industry. Kyndryl will...

FinTech Surge 2022, the MENA region’s leading finance and innovation event, is set to return to Dubai World Trade Centre from October 10-13 2022, where it will spark new disruption in the Middle East and North Africa’s burgeoning fintech sector....

Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Turkey) region has announced its presence at GITEX Global (GITEX), the region’s largest technology event being held at Dubai World Trade Centre from 10-14 October. ...

Workday has published the results of its latest survey, which examines the state of Digital Transformation in finance, how these efforts are impacted by finance and IT and how CFO-CIO alignment is central to transformation success.   The survey of...

strongDM, the company behind a People-First Access Platform, has released the results of its latest survey, the 2022 Access-Productivity Gap Report, which revealed that almost two-thirds of organisations have their productivity impacted on a daily or...