first direct is the #1 company in the UK for delivering high quality customer service, according to The Institute of Customer Service.

Rob Furness of Fintech firm Ledgerflow says now is the time for lenders to explore the opportunities presented by open accounting if they want to work more effectively with their smaller business client base.

SBI Financial Services, the subsidiary of SBI Holdings (“SBI”), today announced the acquisition of B2C2, the trading counterparty of choice in the institutional crypto markets.  The transaction follows SBI Financial Services’ agreement to take a minority stake in B2C2 in July this year.

2020 has threatened the financial industry's viability, causing setbacks to many businesses impacting their liquidity, credit, suspension of licenses or pushing them to bankruptcy. However, the pandemic is not solely to blame, as there were already many financial barriers existing for those businesses in the first place. The crisis merely revealed that many businesses did not have substantial financial backing from financial institutions and business lending programs. 

HelpSystems help exceptional organisations Build a Better ITT. Their security and automation software simplifies critical IT processes and aligns IT & business goals to help organisations build competitive edge. HelpSystems’ IT management software solutions keep business running smoothly. The company is recognised as the biggest independent IBM i software vendor in the world

In the digitally accelerated COVID-19 environment of 2021 what are the top data security trends that organisations are facing? 

tZERO, a leader in blockchain innovation and liquidity for digital assets, announced today its partnership with 

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions has been honored as a winner in two categories in Security Today’s 2020 CyberSecured Awards. Judges named LexisNexis Risk Solutions as the category winner in both Fraud Protection and Threat Intelligence. Both awards recognize the LexisNexis® ThreatMetrix® product, an enterprise solution for digital identity intelligence and digital authentication trusted by more than 5,000 leading global brands to inform risk decisions.

MYHSM, the global provider of Payment Hardware Security Modules (HSM) as a Serviceб today announces the results of its partnership with Global Accelerex, a leading digital payments solutions and services provider for developing economies in the sub-Saharan African region.

A global leader in online multi-asset trading services and currency data and analytics, OANDA, has joined forces with Currencycloud, a leading provider of B2B embedded cross-border solutions, to deliver a new international money transfer service to companies in North America. Called OANDA FX Payments, the new solution has been made possible through a joint collaboration with Shift Connect.

PPRO, the global provider of local payments infrastructure, is working with Banking Circle, the ground-breaking financial infrastructure provider, to enhance the PPRO service offering, supporting PSPs working with cross border e-commerce merchants. The partnership underlines the effectiveness of Banking Circle as a next-generation provider of mission-critical infrastructure for online cross border payments.