Santander UK today announces the appointment of Emma Leith as Chief Information Security Officer.

Emma joins from Barclays International where she was Director of Cyber Strategy and Programme.  Prior to this, she was Chief Information Security Officer for the Corporate Functions and Commodity Trading Division at BP Oil International and has over 13 years’  experience in leading cyber security and privacy agendas across a variety of industry sectors including financial services, oil and gas, telecoms and government.

Accounting departments in UK businesses have continued to shift towards digital practices, but more than four in 10 (41%) continue to rely on paper-based processes, according to new independent research.

The 'Changing trends in the purchasing processes of UK businesses' report, commissioned by automated accounts payable and electronic document management software provider, Invu, revealed a slight reduction in the number of businesses relying on paper-based accounting in the last few years.

Over 26 million euro loans were financed through the European P2P platform Robo.cash in eight months in 2018 that is 223% more than in the same period a year earlier. Operating according to the ‘peer-to-portfolio’ model, the platform brings together private investors and legal entities with the loan originators in Kazakhstan and Spain. This dynamic is believed to be facilitated by continuous development of the IT system and robotic scoring algorithms applied by the lending companies.

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], the European market leader in payment and transaction services, has successfully delivered the first UK unattended VALINA payment terminal, the world’s first all-in-one Android-based payment terminal for contactless, chip and mag stripe transactions.

Barclays has announced the successful launch of a new digital platform in Western Europe, as part of a wider move to boost its Corporate Banking operations in the region.

I just saw a report from the World Economic Forum, who estimate that over $1 trillion in new trade will be created through blockchain-based distributed ledger technologies (DLT) over the next decade. They also estimate it will reduce the global trading gap by $1.5 trillion.

Bold claims.

NTT Security, the specialized security company of NTT Group, has strengthened its UK management team with the appointment of Azeem Aleem to the position of Vice President Consulting and Head of its UK & Ireland (UK&I) business. Azeem is a highly respected cybersecurity specialist and joins following a six year tenure at RSA Security, where most recently he held the role of Global Director and Head of its Worldwide Advanced Cyber Defence (ACD) Practice.

 ACH Alert, an award-winning provider of electronic payments fraud prevention technology for financial institutions of all sizes, today released its latest whitepaper, “Transform Treasury Management with Actionable Fraud Prevention Solutions.” In the paper, ACH Alert reveals how banks and credit unions can transform their fraud prevention strategies to stop unauthorized transactions in the most cost-effective and

Identity verification specialist Onfido today announces that leading crowdfunding platform Indiegogo is using its AI-led identity verification to ensure that fraudsters are kept off of the Indiegogo platform.

Fenergo, the leading provider of Client Lifecycle Management solutions for financial institutions, today announced that the company doubled its revenue to €58m for the year ending 31^st March 2018, and expanded its global footprint into key regions across APAC, Europe & North America. Fenergo continues to show significant growth, having doubled their year-on-year gross margin with an increasing proportion of revenue resulting directly from recurring software fees.