NatWest has been recognized for "Best Security and Anti-Fraud Development" following its enterprise-wide deployment of the ARIC™ Risk Hub; Featurespace's real-time machine learning Enterprise Financial Crime prevention software.   

The award was announced during The Card & Payments Awards’ digital ceremony on April 29, 2021. 

Today’s Eurozone GDP numbers highlight the stark difference in the state of the US and Eurozone economies. GDP contracted 0.6% q/q in the Eurozone in Q1 as the slow vaccine roll-out and continued lockdown restrictions took their toll.  A hefty 1.7% decline in activity in Germany easily outweighed a 0.4% gain in France. Yesterday’s data, by contrast, showed the US economy, already recovering fast on the back of the massive fiscal stimulus and growing 1.6% q/q last quarter.

Sowmya Mony, 33, from Sheffield, is using her background as a software developer to inspire more young women into STEM as she trades tech for teaching, supported by Transition to Teach.

Transition to Teach is a Department for Education funded initiative which enables eligible career changers, those at risk of redundancy and early retirees to train for new teaching careers. Recruitment for the 2021 programme beginning in September is now underway across the Yorkshire region.

UTP Group has partnered with Faster Processing to provide its eCommerce customers with the unique ability to receive fund settlement within hours rather than days. Up until this point merchants have had to wait anywhere up to five working days before receiving the funds from payments they have taken online. 

NatWest has been recognised for "Best Security and Anti-Fraud Development" following its enterprise-wide deployment of the ARIC™ Risk Hub; Featurespace's real-time machine learning Enterprise Financial Crime prevention software.   

The award was announced during The Card & Payments Awards’ digital ceremony on April 29, 2021. 

Businesses the world over are still coming to terms with the massive changes to consumer behaviour caused by COVID restrictions. For some, those changes have actually served to underline the importance of the service they provide and might expedite their growth. How can companies better prepare for rapid development like this? 

A retreat into protectionism, already evident as a trend for some time, has been further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, resultant economic instability, and the EU vaccine rift. As countries scramble to protect businesses considered essential to national interest, attitudes to foreign investment are becoming increasingly stringent.

Payink, a fast-growing payments and receivables provider to professional services firms, has announced the appointed of Alejandra Gimenez as its VP Finance & Growth. This is a second senior leadership appointment by the company in two weeks. Prior to joining Payink, Alejandra was a senior member of the finance team of cross-border payments unicorn Dlocal. 

The Board of Banking Competition Remedies Ltd (BCR) today publishes progress updates for Pool E recipients, providing a summary of performance against their public commitments to the period 28^th February 2021.