Last year the WBR Insights team interviewed 100 Heads of Indirect Procurement from companies across Europe to find out more about the challenges they face and the innovative solutions they’re bringing to the table.

Read the full report “Navigating a Digital Landscape: Bringing Sustainability and Innovation to the Indirect Procurement Process” here

Vend, the preferred retail point-of-sale software of the British Independent Retail Association, has today announced a partnership with global payments provider Klarna. The collaboration gives customers of boutique retailers more flexible payment options, levelling the playing field for small business to compete with enterprise retail and offer Klarna’s smooth and easy payments in-store across the United Kingdom. The role out will later follow in the United States in 2020.

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (“BNY Mellon”) today announced a new suite of oversight and contingent Net Asset Value (NAV) calculation solutions to complement its existing fund accounting capabilities for clients. These new services are designed to drive greater transparency, efficiency and risk management for asset managers and asset owners.

BNY Mellon’s new NAV offerings, which are platform and provider agnostic, set a new industry standard for clients with three key features:

The Emerging Payments Association (EPA), which celebrates collaboration and innovation within new and existing finance companies, has published a first of its kind guide to address the need for increased access to bank accounts.

Moneyfarm, the leading European digital wealth manager, today launches a campaign urging those entering their 40s and 50s to invest in their plans for later life now, after identifying a “mid-life opportunity” which could see them benefit from thousands of pounds extra income to help them realise their retirement goals.

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, announced that it has delivered new industry first Banking Distribution Services as part of the award-winning Temenos Infinity digital front-office banking product. Temenos Infinity is the first core-agnostic product to give banks the ability to continuously transform at scale, creating AI-driven customer experiences. Through upgradeable, standalone distribution services banks are able to retain their own apps and digital banking experience but offer deeper personalized customer engagement capabilities.

Trend Micro researchers Ecular Xu and Joseph C Chen recently discovered three malicious applications in Google Play. They are not the first malicious Google Play apps to be found. In the past, others have been detected that were designed primarily to steal data, whether banking data or a victim’s other personal data.

Two of these applications make it possible to take and edit photographs, while the third is a file manager for Android.

Radware®, a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, released its 2019-2020 Global Application & Network Security Report. The report found that more than one in four respondents attribute attacks against their organisation to cyberwarfare or nation-state activity. In 2018, 19% of organisations believed they were attacked by a nation-state. That figure increased to 27% in 2019. Companies in North America were more likely to report nation-state attribution, at 36%.

SteelEye, the compliance technology and data analytics firm, has announced a partnership and first joint client with TeleMessage.

Leading customer onboarding and KYC technology firm, HooYu, has announced a partnership to digitalise Vanquis Bank’s KYC processes.  The HooYu KYC journey has been selected to provide additional identity proofing during the customer lifecycle when customers perform a potentially high-risk action on their accounts.