“When the CMA launched this report six months ago, it seemed a natural fit when most customers rated a bank without any branches, First Direct, as the one they would recommend to their friend for online and mobile banking services. Barclays has now taken the number one spot, however, reflecting the fact that traditional high street banks recognise the importance of online and mobile, and are working to deliver stronger customer experience across all channels.

 Crypto.com, the pioneering payments and cryptocurrency platform, announced today that it has listed Tezos XTZ to its App and is exploring st

All Work & Social, the operating company behind XYZ Work and the recently launched XYZ Social in Spinningfields has partnered with biometric payments provider, Fingopay.

From Autumn, members and visitors to All Work and Social’s XYZ building will be the first in the UK to pay for food and beverage with just a scan of their finger, using VeinID technology. The integration will  make transactions easier, simpler and safer by removing the need for carrying cash, cards, ID or smartphones.

Capital Markets technology specialist Neueda has partnered with Levyx Inc, a leading big data system software provider, to vastly increase data processing capacity for the Python community. 

Through the new Helium™–Python interface, Neueda and Levyx have significantly increased Python’s utility, offering increased efficiency and effectiveness to users within financial markets and beyond.  The product has been released by Neueda for use via https://github.com/blu-corner – the home of all Neueda’s Open Source software.

UK households and their insurers need to be on alert for rising levels of theft, according to the digital home insurer Policy Expert, whose analysis of claims and crime data suggests a growing risk to consumers.

Figures for the first half of 2019 show that theft or attempted theft now make up one in five (20%) of Policy Expert’s accepted home insurance claims. This is the highest percentage recorded in the last seven years, up from 18% in 2018 and 15% in 2013.

Revolut for Business has today launched a new Expense Management tool, designed to help growing businesses by removing the hassle from handling expenses. The innovative fintech has created a simple and intuitive tool with everything in one place, ensuring that no card expenses will be unaccounted for.  

Business owners now have the ability to easily approve or reject team expenses, an area that has traditionally been difficult to manage. These processes are often prone to error, time-consuming and require businesses to manually import and match data across multiple tools.

Thomson Reuters today announced a global RegTech competition designed to provide early stage start-ups in the legal, tax and regulatory space the opportunity to partner with one of the industry’s leading providers of business information services. Start-ups in these areas are invited to apply by September 9, 2019 by visiting http://www.tr.com/trregtech2019.

Agreement Express, a leading client onboarding software platform for financial services, announces F1 Payments as its newest customer. F1 Payments is a fintech company focused on increasing business velocity for all constituents in the payments ecosystem. The company makes payments frictionless from start-to-finish, while providing a highly-personal and consultative approach and building trusted relationships with key industry players. F1 Payments will use the Agreement Express platform to streamline merchant underwriting and onboarding.

The Swiss startup kasko2go has entered into a partnership with the Ukrainian OKKO GROUP, thereby reaching 4.5 million drivers. kasko2go's disruptive approach caused a sensation in the Swiss insurance market in spring: With the help of artificial intelligence and telematics data, the startup ensures more justice, lowers excessive premiums and at the same time promotes a safe driving culture in society. 

Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today unveiled the industry’s highest-capacity monolithic 16Gb low-power double data rate 4X (LPDDR4X) DRAM. Capable of delivering up to 16GB¹ of low-power DRAM (LPDRAM) in a single smartphone, Micron’s 16Gb LPDDR4X extends the company’s leadership in memory capacity and performance for current and next-generation mobile devices.