From today Lloyds Banking Group will offer its Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers access to Apple Pay, which is transforming mobile payments with an easy, secure and private way to pay.

As Britain’s largest current account provider with three iconic brands on the high street reaching millions of customers, the launch today indicates another milestone in the adoption of new payment technologies.

Cyber security jobs now make up 14% of all new UK based IT roles as businesses increasingly hunt for cyber security experts to help protect against hackers, says Procorre, an international professional services consultancy that operates across a full range of business sectors in over 100 countries.

Procorre says that businesses are increasing their investment in cyber security after a series of recent high profile hacks exposed both the vulnerability of many businesses’ IT security systems and the extent of the potential threat.

 Hexis Cyber Solutions, Inc. (Hexis), a wholly-owned subsidiary of The KEYW Holding Corporation (NASDAQ:KEYW), and a provider of advanced cybersecurity solutions for commercial companies and government agencies, today announced that HawkEye G has been selected by Goodwill® Industries of Greater NY and Northern NJ, Inc.  for advanced 

EthosData, a global leading provider of virtual data room services, today announced that it has received multiple awards by the readers of Acquisition International. EthosData was named "Best Virtual Dataroom Provider of the year for Spain, India and China" for the third year in a row as well "Virtual Dataroom Rising Star- US" and "Most User friendly Data room".

Former City Index Group Finance Director to take on expanded role following acquisition of the business by GAIN Capital

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the acquisition of StrongLoop, Inc., a software provider, to help developers connect enterprise applications to mobile, Internet of Things (IoT) and web applications in the 

Orange has launched a mobile crowdfunding platform in Cote d'Ivoire to which users can make and receive donations via their Orange Money accounts.

Accenture will assist with implemention of the new platform, which will be based on Temenos’ core banking software.

The Stockholm-based bank took a EUR344 million impairment charge on its current IT systems in Q3 as it outlined plans to embark on a major project to rip and replace its core banking and payments systems.

Every couple of months I write a blog taking about trends in crowdfunding. Now one might think that this is simple regurgitation of the same tepid words, like much of the content, which plies the inter-web. But what’s great about crowdfunding is that every couple of months new trends emerge, the industry is developing in front of us and there is genuinely new stuff to write about. So without further ado here are some of the top 3 emerging trends I have been witnessing.

Trend 1: the number of crowdfunding platforms is continuing to grow