• Mastercard launches Thrive Street pop-up to support local small businesses in the Northeast by offering free retail space to promote business, network and learn from business experts.

 CloudBees has been selected by HSBC as its software delivery platform provider, supporting the bank to provide faster, easier and more secure banking to its 40 million customers. With CloudBees, the international bank will establish a unified end-to-end system of record for deploying software into production. 

British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, today announces a £30m commitment to UK focused small cap specialist, Mobeus Equity Partners to its Fund V.

Mobeus provide capital to smaller companies, to support their growth and take an equity stake, alongside existing management teams. The fund will support such management teams in growing their business and the capital will be used to fund capital investment or acquisitions.

Medius, a leading provider of spend management solutions, has been recognized as a Visionary in the October 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Procure-to-Pay (P2P) Suites report.¹

Medius believes this achievement is attributed to their innovative product development, truly customer-centric approach, and the modern technology powering Medius solutions.

Latest community insight draws back the curtain on open banking, the game changing approach to data, its major players globally and impact on the industry

• A more than 600% increase in 3DS transactions in the past year corresponds with a 36% fall in e-commerce payment attacks according to the latest Cybercrime Report from LexisNexis® Risk Solutions
• 3DS authentication process aims to reduce fraud and enhance security in online card payments, as part of the Europe-wide drive towards Strong Customer Authentication (SCA)
• A 21% increase in overall e-commerce transactions was driven in part by 182% growth in Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) transactions

 Tradeteq, the leading technology provider for bank asset distribution, together with Commerzbank AG (Commerzbank), AKA Ausfuhrkredit-Gesellschaft mbH (AKA), and Texel Finance Limited (the Texel Group) have announced that following a successful proof of concept phase, Tradeteq Connect, an expansion of the firm’s existing platform to support distributing bank risk resulting from trade products such as letters of credit (LCs) and guarantees, has been implemented by Commerzbank AG, AKA,

Research by The DPO Centre reveals that senior leaders in large organisations are less likely to understand the impact of privacy and data protection regulation or engage with it, compared to their counterparts in smaller organisations.

Over 400 data protection experts were asked how well senior leaders of their organisation, as well as all other employees, understood and engaged with privacy issues such as accountability, compliance and data security.

Insig AI, the technology company that provides machine learning solutions for asset managers, is proud to announce that it joins EDF Energy, CBRE Global Investors, KMPG in the UK and others as a sponsor of the All-Party Parliamentary Group ("APPG") on Environmental, Social, and Governance ("ESG").