A colleague of mine used to say that “smaller businesses don’t think of themselves as small, they just haven’t finished growing yet.” I was reminded of his words when I recently came across research by Worldpay that 1 in 10 of these nascent businesses in the UK miss out on a key catalyst for growth: the ability to accept card payments.

Numerix, the leader in risk technology today announces its collaboration with Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank and a leading global financial institution, and the successful implementation of its bank-wide technology program focusing on automating its financial market risk management system.

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today announced its collaboration with Caliber Public Safety (Caliber), a leading provider of public safety software in the United States, to provide law enforcement and other government agencies an efficient way to comply with Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) policies, ultimately heightening security.

The world of finance is changing. Consumers are becoming more demanding for ease of engagement, while financial institutions are under pressure to transform services using advanced technology. With a host of start-ups threatening the major players through innovative approaches to the market, it’s becoming an increasingly complex landscape to navigate. The one clear theme underpinning these shifts is applications.

1WorldSync, the leading provider of product content solutions has launched five new apps and features to enhance customers' ability to grow global cross-channel sales. The new capabilities enable more efficient content syndication and improved compliance and product transparency offerings to simplify content aggregation and exchange between trading partners.

SWIFT invites FinTech companies from around the world to develop new overlay services that leverage its SWIFT global payments innovation (gpi) platform. SWIFT will provide funding of up to 200,000 EUR for the two winning FinTech finalists of an Industry Challenge. The FinTech winners will work with banks on collaborative innovation concepts that solve additional industry challenges in cross-border payments on top of SWIFT gpi.

It has been said that even if he is alone, an Englishman forms an orderly queue of one. New research from leading payments provider Adyen reveals the evolving – and often confusing – relationship the British public have with retail, both online and in-store. Whether it’s our baffling bond with queues, our beloved bargains or even the rarely discussed boys shopping day out, one thing is for certain – there is nothing simple about shopping.