Britain’s jobs boom is set to continue in the next quarter as employers continue to shrug off the uncertainty around Brexit with new hires. However, despite the tightening labour market, this confidence has yet to translate into significant salary increases for all but new starters and those with key skills. As recruitment and retention challenges grow, employers are increasingly flexing their recruitment practices and drawing on a wider talent pool to fill vacancies. 

Nutanix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTNX ), a leader in enterprise cloud computing, and Veeam® Software, the leader in Backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management™, today announced Nutanix Mine with Veeam. Currently in beta testing with select customers and partners, Nutanix Mine with Veeam combines the best of both companies’ innovation — Nutanix in enterprise cloud computing and Veeam in Cloud Data Management — for a full-stack solution enabling customers to quickly go from project planning to protection without the cost and overhead of standalone systems.

TruNarrative are proud to announce their latest partnership with the UK’s first bank built exclusively for mobile and tablet, Atom bank plc, to provide an AML transaction monitoring and financial crime customer screening and monitoring solution.

Taking blockchain mainstream, Blockchain Live is back and will be returning to London Olympia on 25^th September as a festival of blockchain education. A one-day event, packed with engaging, thought-provoking and quality content, this year Blockchain Live will be moving away from the traditional exhibition model, in to a ground-breaking festival of content and collaboration.

It’s positive to see the FCA and Bank of England take an interest in issues with current post-trade infrastructure and look at the cost and benefits of alternative approaches.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) announced (9 May 2019) that the Monetary Authority has granted banking licences under the Banking Ordinance to Ant SME Services (Hong Kong) Limited, Infinium Limited, Insight Fintech HK Limited and Ping An OneConnect Company Limited for them to operate in the form of a virtual bank. The granting of these banking licences takes effect today. According to their business plans, these four newly licenced virtual banks intend to launch their services in around 6 to 9 months.

London based FinTech, Flagstone, developer of the UK’s largest cash deposit platform which provides clients with access to over 550 deposit accounts from 30 banks through asingle application, has raised

£11m in growth capital from investors including Kindred Capital, Moneysupermarket Group plc, VentureFounders and a number of private individual investors.

Path Solutions, a global provider of technology solutions, consulting, and outsourcing services to the Islamic finance industry, has signed a partnership agreement with Infrascale, the leader in Hybrid Cloud Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). 

With the partnership in place, Path Solutions will offer Infrascale’s Disaster Recovery solutions to its existing and potential clients. The strategy will bring a strong DRaaS offering and data protection to customers throughout the Middle East.

Payment  leader Ingenico Group (Euronext: FR0000125346 - ING) has launched LinkPlus, a simple and secure solution for businesses who handle payments over the phone. The solution enables online businesses to send payments through a link or QR code, removing the need to manually process unsecured credit card details or banking information. 

Judo Bank, the first SME focused bank operating in Australia, today announced that it has gone live in record time with Temenos T24 Transact, Analytics, Financial Crime Mitigation and Channels – a module of Temenos Infinity – running on Temenos Cloud.