The Department for Education (DfE) overhauled its security investment in the most recent financial year (FY 20-21), by increasing security courses on offer to staff from four to 44. Additionally, course participants surged from just under 7,000 in FY 19-20, to over 30,000 this year, a 329 per cent increase.

Latest insight, Helping the Financially Overlooked, reflects on a transformational global pivot from ease of access to embrace, complement and promote customers’ identities

Account-to-account payment specialist secures largest seed round investment in UK open banking market to date from leading fintech investors 

The two big positives at the moment.

Fed result in, and a bounce that stalls.

As we have been forecasting, the Federal Reserve itself is now adjusting its commentary suggesting interest rate hikes will be sooner than previously thought. We knew what they would be thinking before they did, but they are still dangerously behind the curve.

Makes one wonder what the RBA will do with its no hikes for years oddly bizarre and inappropriate policy? As the rest of the world begins hiking.

• Nearly half (40%) of consumers wait for ecommerce refunds for between 3 to 5 days.
• This delay has negative implications for consumers: 28% have been directly impacted in their ability to pay for bills, rent and mortgage payments
• 28% of 18- to 24-year-olds impacted in their ability to pay for food

Stocks Rally; AUD, Risk FX Rally; EUR, GBP Dip Ahead of PMIs

Corfinancial®, a leading provider of specialist software and services to the financial services sector, announces today that after a highly competitive evaluation process the Department for International Trade (DIT), alongside the City of London Corporation, The Investment Association, and the 

Temenos and Vodeno to enable regulated and non-regulated entities to embed financial services into their customer journeys

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, Vodeno, a fully cloud-native BaaS provider and Aion Bank, a European licensed digital bank and credit institution, today announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate Banking as a Service (BaaS) deployment in Europe. 

By Jason Tooley, Vice President EMEA, Dynatrace

• Antony Stephen will join Barclays as the CEO of the bank’s point-of-sale finance business, Barclays Partner Finance, on Monday 4 October
• Antony has over 25 years of experience in payments and financial services, including his most recent role as Head of Amazon Payments Europe
• As CEO, Antony will focus on scaling the point-of-sale finance business in the UK, and providing senior leadership to Barclays Cubed, Barclays’ next-generation commerce platform