44 UK organisations including IBM, The Co-Op and Lloyds Banking Group, are celebrating after being commended with a Princess Royal Training Award for their workplace learning at a ceremony held at St James’s Palace in London last night.

Presented by HRH Princess Anne and delivered by the City and Guilds Group, the Princess Royal Training Awards, now in their fourth year, celebrate exceptional training and development programmes across the country.

 Nutanix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing, announced today a partnership with Hardis Group, a consulting, digital services and software publishing company, to deliver Vision Insights powered by Xi IoT, an innovative solution to manage supply chain operations efficiency.

The idea that machines have the potential to make better decisions than us humans is nothing new. The recent explosion of available data, coupled with advances in technology has elevated AI’s commercial credibility, which, unsurprisingly, the financial services industry is keen to take advantage of.

Pollinate, the business behind Tyl by NatWest, has launched with a growth capital investment round from a consortium of global industry leaders. Mastercard, Motive Partners and EFM Asset Management (EFM) will join RBS as both investors in, and partners to, the Pollinate business, which has raised a total of £60 million in funding to date. 

ING announced today that Robert Reibestein has decided to resign from the Supervisory Board of ING Group per 1 January 2020.

Robert Reibestein was appointed to the Supervisory Board in May 2012 and started in this role per 1 January 2013. After 7 years of dedicated membership of the Supervisory Board, Robert Reibestein decided to resign because of persistent personal health issues.

In his role as ING Group Supervisory Board member, Robert Reibestein was also chairman of the Risk Committee and member of the Audit Committee and Remuneration Committee.

UK-based Alliance Investments, a direct-to-developer real estate investment company, today announced its plans to tokenize £500m of real estate projects across the UK over the next several years. The first project of its real estate tokenization plan is River Plaza, a 180-unit luxury residential development that is located on the banks of River Irwell and directly opposite of Castlefield in Manchester.

Nomura, Asia’s global investment bank, has made its five FX algorithmic strategies available on the BidFX platform.

Clients can now access Nomura’s FX Algo Tsuwamono Series on BidFX. Each strategy offers a wide range of flexibility on executions suited to client requirements and trading preferences.

Ian Daniels, Nomura Head of eFX Distribution EMEA & Americas said: “Nomura’s FX algorithms provide substantial benefits to clients, with high levels of trading flexibility. We’re pleased that clients can now find our algorithms on BidFX.”

Nutmeg's head of advice Lisa Caplan has spoken to Finextra about the continued expansion of its digital wealth management offering beyond the automated investment platform for which its known.

Cross-border banking and payment services in the EU are being held back by a lack of regulatory clarity and harmonisation, says the European Banking Authority (EBA).

For over 5 years now, Bitwage has been dedicated to raising awareness and growing the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Earlier this year, we began our goal to encompass a greater part of the cryptocurrency ecosystem outside of Bitcoin by launching Ether payrolls. Anyone around the world could receive any percentage of their wages in Ether from US, EU and UK companies.