Industry leaders road-mapped the future of the UK’s digital economy in Parliament last night, discussing the widespread digital skills crisis, diversity in the technology industry, and sustainability challenges.

The panel was hosted by Dean Russell MP for Watford and chaired by Steven George-Hilley of Centropy PR, bringing together business chiefs and policymakers to debate the role businesses can play in growing and innovating the UK’s digital sphere.

Eventus, a leading global provider of state-of-the-art, at-scale trade surveillance software across all lines of defense, and FinClear, Australia’s leading provider of trade execution and third-party clearing services, today announced that FinClear has deployed Eventus’ Validus platform for trade surveillance and post-trade monitoring. 

Payment24, the global payments platform provider specialising in payment and loyalty solutions, announced today that it has invested in Switzerland-headquartered Inergy 24, a European-based technology service provider. The businesses will collectively provide customers throughout Europe access to the Payment24 platform, including payment, fleet management, mobile and retail, loyalty, electric vehicle (EV), and Cloud Switch solutions.

Payments infrastructure company Stitch today announced the launch of a new payment method: Pay with crypto - the most comprehensive of its kind available in South Africa. With this method, businesses can allow a growing set of customers that wish to buy goods and services using crypto to do so directly, and get settled in ZAR.  

BMA Banking Systems, a provider of core banking software and services to independent-minded community financial institutions, has selected Bankjoy, a leading digital banking provider as a preferred partner for online and mobile banking.

Having received its Payment Institution License from the FCA earlier this year, FinTech company PAYSTRAX has now officially announced the launch of its UK operations.

The company provides card transaction acquiring and payment solutions for UK & EU merchants, is a member of the European Payments Group, and holds a Principal Membership license with VISA and Mastercard.

Mastercard today announced that its joint venture entity, Mastercard NUCC Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., has received formal approval from the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) and the National Administration of Financial Regulation (NAFR) to commence domestic bank card clearing activity in China.

We are delighted to announce that we have won multiple awards in the latest Harrington Starr Top 1% Workplace Awards. BMLL was awarded ‘Best Sales Professionals’ and was highly commended for ‘Best Workplace for Talent Investment’. In addition, our CEO Paul Humphrey was named among the ‘Top 1% Leaders of the Year’.

UK online shoppers and retailers can expect an onslaught of fraudulent attacks in the coming weeks as the Black Friday retail bonanza gets underway, according to analysis from data and analytics firm, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions.

Password resets, fake account registrations, and an influx of failed login attempts are among the threats shoppers and retailers should look out for as fraudsters use the global pre-Christmas spending surge as cover for malicious attacks.