Man and machine are the perfect pair when it comes to fighting payment fraud, according to a new whitepaper from European payments industry leader, Nets and multinational professional services provider, KPMG. Fighting Fraud with a Model of Models explains how utilising human expertise in combination with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies can significantly increase the accuracy of fraud prevention services.

British Business Investments Ltd, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has announced a new commitment under its £100m Regional Angels Programme, committing £10m to Startup Funding Club Limited (SFC).

The commitment will be managed by SFC and invested alongside the SFC SEIS & EIS Funds as well as the SFC Angel Network. SFC intends to deploy the commitment in over 100 early stage businesses across the UK to deliver almost £40m of new funding for start-up and scale-up businesses across all sectors.

Revolut, the Financial Super App with over 10 million customers in the UK and Europe, has today revealed figures highlighting a swell in charitable giving among UK consumers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The proprietary Revolut data has been gathered from 3 million UK Revolut customers, comparing stats from January and February 2020 to data since COVID-19 began to impact UK consumers from 1^st March 2020.

Donation amounts increase across all age groups

The Azerbaijani state-owned bank Azer Turk Bank has procured a TransLink.iQ solution for EFTPOS networks monitoring and managing, developed by Lithuanian company ASHBURN International. The company also provided the bank with the country's first payment terminals manufactured by Ingenico.

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Yolt, the smart thinking money app, has today announced a new API connection with Nutmeg, the digital wealth and investment manager. The connection means that Yolt users with a Nutmeg investment account can now see their portfolios directly within the Yolt app, alongside their other current accounts, savings, credit cards, pensions, and other investments.

Yolt users can analyse all their transactions across their accounts, plan budgets, monitor bills, track their spending and even switch their household bills, all within the app.

Banks and other financial services organizations have been investing in big data for years. From purchasing data, to collecting it at various points along the customer journey, they have an overabundance of valuable customer and even employee information at their fingertips. Ideally, this would be used to optimize operations, analyze customer behavior and grow employee engagement, among other things.

From train seats to city roads, deep cleaning and sanitization has certainly taken on a whole new meaning in these uncertain times marred by Coronavirus! So much so, in fact, that even cash isn’t spared these necessary measures. An interesting example in this regard is China-the epicenter of the COVID-19 virus. As per reports, in mid of February 2020, the government had ordered banks to withdraw potentially infected cash from the markets and disinfect it using ultraviolet or heat treatment, store it for seven to 14 days and then re-issue the same in the market.