Lazada, a leading eCommerce platform in Southeast Asia, today published its research report, Bridging the AI Gap: Online Seller Perceptions and Adoption Trends in Southeast Asia (SEA). Developed in collaboration with Kantar, the report surveyed 1,214 eCommerce sellers across Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam to examine AI adoption trends, challenges, and opportunities—shedding light on […]
Tink, A Visa Solution, the market-leading open banking platform, has announced that 10,000 merchants have now chosen Pay by Bank via its Payment Service Provider (PSP) partnerships. Tink also recently hit a new €100m peak in a single day for its payment initiation services (PIS) across Europe, marking a tipping point in demand for Pay […]
Kroll, the leading independent provider of global financial and risk advisory solutions, has today released the 2025 Financial Crime Report, finding that over 71% of executives across financial and professional services anticipate a rise in financial crime risks in 2025. The report highlights cybersecurity, AI, regulatory complexity, geopolitics and sanctions as key issues in the fight against […]
Equifax UK has launched a new suite of solutions for commercial lenders, drawing on its fully cloud-native commercial data platform to help clients meet key business challenges with speed and agility. The Business Intelligence Suite™ harnesses cloud-hosted Commercial Credit Data Sharing and Insight attributes across a range of products to help Equifax UK clients make […]
Visa, a global leader in payment technology, today unveiled its scam disruption practice focused on identifying and stopping complex scams as they emerge. The new department, which sits under Visa Payment Ecosystem Risk and Control (PERC), saved victims $350m (€335m) across dozens of scams last year. This is in addition to the $40bn (€39bn) PERC […]
Metro Bank has announced a new partnership with Covecta, an AI platform for financial services that will be deployed across its corporate and commercial credit businesses. Covecta is a third-party Agentic AI solution that will deliver and complete tasks across the end-to-end loan lifecycle from lead acquisition to servicing. This helps compress work that might take hours […]
ECI Partners, the leading mid-market private equity company, has rolled out its unique Amplifind™360 origination platform to portfolio companies to help them to drive efficiency, visibility and collaboration across their M&A pipeline. The new tool follows the success of Amplifind™, ECI’s AI tool that was developed in 2020, using proprietary data to help its Origination […]
Lloyds Banking Group has developed a Global Correlation Engine (GCE), an innovation which supercharges cybersecurity and protects customers. This addresses a challenge experienced across businesses, especially among larger organisations, where cybersecurity software, designed to identify and alert businesses to potential attacks, can lack precision. This means that alerts can sometimes be triggered by activity that […]
GoCardless, the bank payment company, has launched capital powered by Pipe, to provide direct access to capital financing for its small business customers. The offer is in collaboration with Pipe, a fintech company delivering embedded financial solutions through software and payments partners. Eligible GoCardless customers can now make use of fast, easy-to-access financing, all from within […]
Equifax UK has launched the Financed Emissions CalculatorTM, utilising Equifax fully cloud-native infrastructure to help streamline sustainability reporting requirements and provide more accurate and timely data delivery. This new solution will enable lenders to make more informed decisions to align net-zero targets with lending and investment strategies. In partnership with environmental data technology company CienDos, […]
