Leading payment orchestration platform, BR-DGE, has announced strong growth in 2023 in response to increasing market demand. BR-DGE saw impressive growth in 2023, continuing its focus on winning new merchants, rolling out new technology and onboarding new partners such as Visa, PayPlug, Sift and American Express Pay with Bank transfer. Despite the backdrop of a […]
Research from RPC has revealed that between June 2022 and June 2023, 640 cyber security breaches were reported to the Information Commissioners Officers (ICO), up from 187 the previous year across the financial sector. For many businesses in 2024, a secure payment gateway is a vital link within the payment infrastructure. Payment gateways offer seamless […]
Global consultancy Kearney, in partnership with Egon Zehnder, the leadership advisory firm, has released a report titled ‘Leadership in the Age of AI’ exploring how business leaders foresee the impact of AI on organisations and jobs, and how prepared they feel for this change. Organisations need to get ready for change One of the key […]
Nearly three quarters (73%) of regulated firms that take on new individual customers and business clients, have yet to start verifying the sources of their clients’ funds using open banking – a system that provides secure third-party access to financial data through an API (application programming interface). More than one in five (21%) do not […]
Susannah Streeter, head of money and markets, Hargreaves Lansdown: “Frustration is in the air as UK inflation continues to prove stubborn. The slight rise in the headline rate to 4% is the last move companies and households wanted to see, as it pushes the prospect of interest rate cuts further down the line. There had […]
Barclays Eagle Labs have launched an online skills platform for budding entrepreneurs looking to become the leaders of the next tech giants. The new Eagle Labs Academy, funded by the Department for Science Innovation and Technology, will provide curated learning experiences, where users can access self-paced, on-demand and interactive content; covering key challenges faced when […]
ComplyAdvantage has launched its annual report into fraud, money laundering, and financial crime: The State of Financial Crime 2024. The report identifies the criminal use of artificial intelligence (AI) as an emerging fraud challenge while revealing that most financial institutions are investing in technology to combat this growing threat. However, a majority of consumers remain […]
DLA Piper, the global law firm, has onboarded software-as-a-service solution LiveDiligence, integrating the data-driven tool designed to offer enhanced efficiency and collaboration into its due diligence process for its renewables clients. LiveDiligence is a unique and specialised platform used by advisors to deliver timely and actionable due diligence insights to renewables investors and lenders. As […]
Barclays Research and IBM’s Institute for Business Value today released a new Impact Series report, entitled “AI revolution: productivity boom and beyond.” The report examines whether AI can become the final accelerator to boost productivity and what this could mean for industries and the wider economy. “The world’s demographic patterns are shifting in unprecedented ways […]
Regulated firms risk becoming enablers for sanction evasion by trusting long-term client relationships over critical compliance checks, new survey data can reveal. A staggering 41 percent of firms said they are confident that none of their clients are listed on sanction or PEP (politically-exposed person) lists because they have worked with them for a […]
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