The British Business Bank has appointed Jenny Knott as Non-executive Director (NED) to the board of British Business Bank plc, effective from 14 December 2020.

Jenny Knott is a highly experienced board-level investment banker with over 30 years’ experience in banking and corporate finance. She has served as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) on the Boards of global investment banks, financial services corporates and charitable organisations.

At the beginning of the year, insurance organisations were not only anticipating the FCA’s final report into general insurance practices, they were also preparing to spend more on digital transformation projects to meet consumer needs.

In July 2020, a group of 16 major European banks from five countries (Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain) paved the way for the future launch of the European Payments Initiative, by announcing the creation of the EPI Interim Company in Brussels, responsible for initiating the implementation of the joint payment initiative.

Standardisation, regulation and technological innovation means payments are well on the way to becoming instant, invisible and free. This is good news for everybody.

Well, not quite everybody. Banks are now faced with the significant challenge of transforming business models and legacy technology systems to meet the demands of a new era in payments.

Today Quantum Employment Design (QED) leader My Digital announces its collaboration with Ecospend Technologies Ltd, a pioneer in digital payment services and Open Finance.

Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, today announced an update of Acronis True Image 2021 that incorporates a professional-grade vulnerability assessment tool into the personal cyber protection solution.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced a client pilot program for its new Insurance Information Exchange (IIEX) service, a transformative new platform that will help clients turn massive quantities of insurance data and information across 15.6 million policy records into actionab

Talos, a technology provider for the institutional trading of digital assets, today announced that order flow from six OTC liquidity providers has been integrated into its end-to-end trading platform. These partners are: Alameda Research, B2C2, Cumberland, Galaxy Digital, Genesis, and Hehmeyer.

The first virtual Africa Tech Festival took place 09-12 November in a year marked by challenge and change.  As a physical event, taking place in Cape Town each year for more than two decades, the Africa Tech Festival, incorporating AfricaCom, AfricaTech, AHUB, and other co-located events, has always attracted a global audience of digital infrastructure and emerging technology leaders.  In 2020, despite being hosted completely online, it was no different, with registered attendees of over 12 000.