Barclaycard has developed ‘Dine & Dash’, a new solution to bypass the traditional bill-paying process in restaurants, which will be unveiled with a consumer trial at high-street chain Prezzo. In a bid to make life easier for staff and customers alike, servers no longer need to deliver the tab or handle transactions at the table – guests can simply walk out after eating.

Following a significant uplift in enquiries from financial advisers looking for new ways to outsource investment management, technology-led discretionary investment manager, PortfolioMetrix has expanded its business development team with the appointment of Bruce Ely-Johnston.

Starling Bank, one of the new breed of mobile-only challenger banks, has joined Bacs Payment Schemes Limited (Bacs); the bank becomes the latest participant to offer access to systemically important payment methods, Direct Debit and Bacs Direct Credit, to its commercial customers from today (19 February). 

Santander UK, via its merchant acquiring partner Elavon, will from the spring enable its business customers to join the growing European networks of well-known Chinese payment wallet providers, across e-commerce solutions.

Through Elavon, Santander customers will have the option to accept these Chinese payment methods (including UnionPay and other relevant Chinese fintech companies which offer these services) via their own websites from early 2018. Elavon plans to expand this functionality across its POS solutions, which already accept UnionPay, by the end of 2018.

Trulioo, a leading global identity verification provider, is revolutionizing identity verification with the implementation of its newest product – Mobile ID.

European cybersecurity company Nixu announced today the launch of the 2018 Nixu Challenge. The Nixu Challenge gives participants an opportunity to test their skills in various technical cybersecurity puzzles.

Accuity, the leading provider of financial crime compliance, payments and counterparty know-your-customer (KYC) solutions, has embarked on a project to help payment solutions company, Lemon Way, to more efficiently identify financial crime and flag potentially high-risk customers. Lemon Way has chosen to implement Firco Compliance Link, an Accuity solution which will enable the business to streamline its financial crime compliance screening, improving transparency, auditability and efficiency during the onboarding of new customers.

With it estimated that the new Open Banking initiative could provide a £1 billion boost to the country’s economy, it highlights how the UK has taken a leading role in implementing innovative, far-sighted policy decisions.

Atos today presents the Hoox K31, its new smartphone model, part of the Hoox for business range, its ultra-secure telephony solution for professionals.