According to a global online survey commissioned by RSA, a global cybersecurity leader delivering Business-Driven Security™ solutions, 41% of consumers admit to intentionally falsifying personal information and data when signing up for products and services online, revealing a continued scepticism over how such data is used. The findings come as 55% of respondents said they would avoid handing personal data to a company they know to have been selling or misusing data without consent.

BlueSnap, an online payments technology company, announces today that it has enhanced its end-to-end fraud and risk management in the all-in-one payment platform to protect payments at every stage of the journey. The platform comes with a full fraud-stack solution built-in from Chargebacks 911, Kount, Verifi, Ethoca, and CardinalCommerce for 3-D Secure. 

The P2P lending is turning to a significant source of additional income for the growing number of the European investors. According to the research carried out by analysts of the platform Robo.cash, this occurs due to the rising share of young investors in the market.

SafeCharge (LON: SCH), a leading payments technology company, has today at ICE 2018, launched SafeCharge Reconciliation Manager, a new solution for businesses to automate the matching of transactions across all their payment service providers, merchant platforms and banks. By consolidating and automating the reconciliation process with SafeCharge Reconciliation Manager, businesses in any industry can benefit from increased control, reporting accuracy and retrieval of revenues from incorrect reconciliation.

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has published the first monthly relationship file that matches a Business Identifier Code (BIC) assigned to an organization against its Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). With the launch of this open source file, GLEIF and SWIFT have pioneered a cooperation model that, for the first time, enables market participants to link and cross-reference these key entity identifiers free of charge. This will significantly streamline entity verification processes and reduce data management costs.

• Historically ranked 2^nd in the IESE Venture Capital and Private Equity Country Attractiveness Index, the UK is projected to see a fall of at least four positions two years after leaving the EU

• The 2018 edition of the index sees the US take the world’s number 1, followed by the UK (2), Canada (3), Hong Kong (4) and Japan (5)

Rakuten Aquafadas, expert in digital publishing, interactive content and app creation, part of the Rakuten Group, announce a new partnership with a training provider for health professionals Orion Santé. Following a few months of collaboration Orion Santé have launched their new web, smartphone and tablet mobile app based on a new generation and highly scalable Rakuten Aquafadas technology. The app is first of this kind in this sector and is aimed at trainers and medical staff. 

ULLINK, a global provider of electronic trading and connectivity solutions to the financial community, has extended its successful partnership with LiquidMetrix to deliver MiFIDII best execution reporting to multiple European Sell-Side clients. The solution, UL PUBLISHER for Best Execution, teams ULLINK’s fully-automated, post-trade data management hub with the LiquidMetrix Workstation for MiFID II best execution reporting.

Currently, there’s an inequality that exists between employed and self-employed workers.

What makes self-employment so tough is that there is rarely any kind of safety net in place to help protect from the unforeseen. Statutory benefits that workers expect, such as sick pay, maternity pay or pension provision, aren’t there for the self-employed. 

To further enable companies to integrate reputation into their strategic decision making, Reputation Institute (RI) has acquired London-based big data media analytics company Mettle Consulting Limited.