As competition in e-commerce grows increasingly stiff, customer experience is the new mantra. Consumers are firmly in control. So, merchants are on a mission to eradicate friction and maximise convenience.

But where does it end? Should merchants put convenience above all else? Or is there still a place for security, even if it might slow transactions down?

The Emerging Payments Association (EPA) gained a new Benefactor, Clearsettle, for Project Regulator, one of its eight projects to drive change, connect the payments eco-system and encourage innovation.  

Loom Systems, the leading end-to-end AI-powered log analysis solution, today announced the release of its newest Streaming 2.0 platform, which enables more precise log analysis in Enterprise IT environments, ultimately reducing the manual work needed to optimize the product by up to 80%.

Barclays Bank UK PLC, Barclays’ future ring-fenced bank, is pleased to announce that Avid Larizadeh Duggan, general partner at Google Ventures (GV), will be joining its new Board, subject to regulatory approval.

Avid, who was recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2016, has been heavily involved in tech ecosystem since 1998. Prior to GV, Avid co-founded Boticca, a global marketplace for independent brands of fashion accessories.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.  (NYSE:BR), the global leader in investor communications for banks, mutual funds and public companies, has partnered with Aite Group to publish a new report on the updated Shareholder Rights Directive, a European regulatory initiative designed to encourage shareholder engagement in listed companies in Europe and improve the transparency of related processes including proxy voting.

Duo Security, one of the world's fastest growing cybersecurity providers, today announced the launch of its Managed Service Provider (MSP) and invitation-only Security Solution Provider programme in the United Kingdom. Duo's formal partner programme, which launched in the U.S. earlier this year, expands to the UK as the company has quadrupled its overall EMEA customer count from 450 to nearly 1,900 in the past two years.

The explosion in big data, IoT devices and cloud technology has broadened the digital landscape, but the flipside is the soaring number of endpoints and challenges that arise from their management.

Gartner predicts that by 2020, we will see 20 billion of them, a traction fuelled largely by the increase in remote and mobile working and the trend for bringing your own devices (BYOD) to the workplace.