UK SMEs must create a tech-friendly culture to attract and retain top tech talent, according to a new white paper from Robert Half UK, Recruiting for the future: The challenges for UK SMEs. While remuneration and work–life balance are the top reasons for job moves, SMEs’ ability to offer an innovative culture with high levels of responsibility is central to their ability to secure and retain talent over larger organisations.

“In the current climate, politics is simply too unpredictable. No one really knows what is going to happen next year, let alone the next 3 years. However, we can create a healthy fintech scene whatever political party is in charge and whoever our country leaders are.”

Volt Bank, the first of a wave of new digital providers to be granted a banking license in Australia, has chosen technology and services from FIS (NYSE: FIS) to power its mobile and card payment services.

FIS, a leader in financial services technology, will provide Volt Bank with processing services for its credit card and mobile payments products. FIS will also provide solutions for risk and compliance management as well as treasury management.

FinTech Network are excited to announce that Zeeshan Feroz, CEO (UK) at Coinbase will be speaking at the 4th Blockchain for Finance Conference, EU, Dublin, October 7-9, the premium European conference exploring how emerging technologies are redefining financial services. http://bit.ly/2K2pSbp

Zeeshan will join an exciting panel discussion with Barclays, Citi and Deloitte to discuss:

Identifying the Value in Digitalisation

More than two in five young people (43%) believe that high street banks will continue to process their payments in Britain of 2030 - but they also believe that banks need to become more ethical and have a greater impact on society at large in order to fend off the challenges posed by retail and tech brands - according to new research from ThoughtWorks.

ClearBank and Nationwide, the world’s largest building society, have today announced their partnership as the Society prepares to launch a game-changing business current account for Britain’s 5.6 million small businesses.

Radware® a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, today announced that its industry-leading SSL DDoS attack protection, DefenseSSL®, now features behavioural-based algorithms for keyless protection against HTTPS flood attacks.  For the first time, organisations have the scale needed to effectively mitigate HTTPS floods.

 The go-to trade association for all UK retailers, British Retail Consortium (BRC), is working with cutting-edge dispute processing and remediation company, Chargebacks911, to help its members better understand how to combat friendly fraud and chargebacks.

Adyen, the payments platform of choice for the world’s leading companies, has today announced it will be working in partnership with Vue to help deliver enhanced customer experiences across all sales channels. 

The unified payments experience will be introduced at Vue venues across the UK and Ireland. This will provide cinema goers with a seamless payments experience whether customers are purchasing tickets in the cinema or via one of Vue’s online channels. Customers will be able to pay via their preferred methods including all digital wallets.

Mastercard today announces a new partnership with Nationwide as it prepares to launch a new business banking service targeting Britain’s 5.6 million small businesses.

The partnership is founded on Nationwide’s experience of delivering best in class banking services and Mastercard’s innovative, trusted and secure digital business banking solutions. Whilst Nationwide continues to gear up for the introduction of its business accounts, Mastercard debit cards will be made available to business customers following the launch early next year.