21^st June 2018 - OP Financial Group’s Pivo Wallet Oy and Nets are joining forces to pilot mobile payments in Finland. The two companies have signed a letter of intent to make Pivo available for Finnish Nets merchants, both in-store and online. Pivo users will also have access to a new e-receipt functionality within the app.

Report data reflects the continuous dominance of subscriptions, currently at 76% of transactions. Local payment methods prevalent in several markets around the world.

Corlytics puts global conduct of business under the microscope

·       On average, at least one individual has been fined for misconduct every week for the last six years

·       Disclosure and communications are the major root cause of misconduct penalties making up 40% of the number of fines, and 77% of value of fines over last six years

·       Weekly fines given to individuals for misconduct are set to further increase as more regulations come online

Fast growing UK business and digital transformation specialist, Rainmaker Solutions, is expanding into the United States and has enlisted business and technology executive, Patrick Andersson, as managing director for the region.

Global Shop Solutions is proud to celebrate 25 years of ERP software excellence under the leadership of Vice President of R&D Erika Klein.
As the daughter of Dick Alexander, founder of Global Shop Solutions, Klein has lived
and breathed the company since she was a young girl. From joining her parents at the
office after school, to running our R&D department of nearly 100 people, Klein has been
a visionary in 40+ years of company success.
Klein’s journey as an employee started in Global Shop Solutions service department

One would hope after the high level of employment tribunal victories centring around precarious, gig and bogus self-employment that companies, apps and investors would have learned by now, said GMB London 

On Thursday 21st June, an appeal from Addison Lee will be heard in an Employment Appeal Tribunal against the ruling last September that Addison Lee’s drivers where to be classified as workers. 

New research shows issues that are keeping financial services directors awake at night

Tightened regulatory controls, new business processes and employee training are key worries, say financial services directors

As part of its transformation strategy, Deutsche Bank has selected SmartStream Technologies’ Centre of Excellence (CoE) to provide an off-site operations platform - including three services which will allow the bank to streamline, simplify and reduce the costs of its reconciliations environment.

Employee engagement has surfaced as a major concern in delivering improvements in customer experience (CX), with 86 percent of CX executives in a Gartner, Inc. survey ranking it as having an equal or greater impact than other factors such as project management and data skills.

While the benefits of contactless payments are undeniable, cash still plays an important role in the financial life of Brits across the country. Reduced access to cash might have unpredictable consequences for a number of industries besides the financial services – such as retail and hospitality.