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NatWest owned SME lending platform Esme Loans has lent more than £50m to UK SMEs over two years. Esme cuts the time it takes to apply for a loan to 10 minutes for SMEs, offering SMEs loans of up to ...

Chancellor of the Exchequer addresses fintechs on day two of Innovate Finance Summit 2019

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Paul Clough in his role as data scientist at UK-headquartered business analytics company Peak Indicators -- Clough is also ...

Cloud data integration and data integrity company Talend has now supported OpenAPI specification (OAS) version 3.0 with its Talend Data Fabric product. As noted here by Swagger, the OpenAPI ...

JNBridgePro is a provider of interoperability tools to connect Java and .NET frameworks... the company’s mission has always been to enable developers to connect anything Java together with anything ...

This is a guest blogpost by David Richards, co-founder and CEO, WANdisco At its recent Cloud Next conference Google rolled out a number of new cloud products, services and packages – all designed ...

In his role co-CEO of big data analytics company Plandek, Charlie Ponsonby guest writes for the Computer Weekly Developer Network to examine how teams can get more out of Agile development ...

This is a guest blog post by Rich Pugh, co-founder and Chief Data Scientist, Mango Solutions Data is the new oil, or so we are told. In some respects, this is true – successful businesses today run ...

The UK's first Fintech Week kicks off with Innovate Finance Global Summit

Tink is a Swedish fintech which realised a complete change of its business model was in order if it were to meet its growth potential

The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team want to talk code and coding.  But more than that, we want to talk coding across the diversity spectrum… so let’s get the tough ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by David Moss in his role as regional director for western Europe at Avi Networks.  Moss writes… One dictionary definition of ...

The BakkerElkhuizen UltraBoard 950 Wireless Compact Keyboard is difficult to pronounce and requires a full lung-full of air to say in one go... but it's a piece of kit that stands out for a number ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team want to talk code and coding. But more than that, we want to talk coding across the diversity spectrum… so let’s get the tough ...

Kony is a company we’re getting to know faster than we expected. The organization works in digital experience development platforms and the emerging low-code platform market; it also has a ...

Carole Cadwalladr has used her TED talk to highlight Facebook’s obfuscation regarding political adverts on its site, calling for Mark Zuckerberg to hold a TED talk of his own or risk finding ...

Nationwide Building Society offering fintechs funding and mentoring in a challenge to create apps for the financially vulnerable

This is a guest blogpost by Emil Eifrem, CEO, Neo4j, in which he explains how an elegant solution to the mathematical puzzle to find the most efficient way of traversing the bridges in Prussia’s ...

Where’s my desktop gone? That’s the obvious immediate first reaction for any Google Chromebook user. We road tested a Lenovo Chromebook 11 500e (Robo 360) and an HP Chromebook x360 11 G1 EE ...

It has been a week of activism and a call for action, with the Extinction Rebellion, causing major disruptions in London. But alongside grass roots demonstrations, there appears to be a greater ...

The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team is running Ubuntu. More specifically, we’re running Ubuntu 19.04 on an originally Windows-empowered Lenovo laptop as a dual boot. NOTE: Incidentally, ...

This is a guest post by Simon Lockington, director of global solutions enablement at Equinix Asia-Pacific Industry watchers are predicting that 4G LTE subscribers in Asia-Pacific will naturally ...

Many people using the London Underground today will likely have noticed that the usual Virgin Media-run Wi-Fi service is not working. Some might even have been mildly inconvenienced by not being ...

The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team spoke to Deepak Giridharagopal this week in his role as CTO at Puppet in an attempt to examine the true nature of open source openness. As defined in ...

Facebook is closing its peer to peer payments service within Messenger in the UK because of limited take up

Almost a third of people have such confidence in fin tech that they would allow a digtal platform to automatically move their mortgage to a better deal.

The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team are off the nation’s capitol (we said capitol, not capital… it’s Washington DC) to witness the goings on at DataStax Accelerate. ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network decided to cover the emerging area of DataOps… and we were overloaded. After an initial couple of stories to define the term here and another exploring DataOps ...

There was a time when the major ERP providers were considered allies of the CIO. They were trusted advisors. From an IT decision-maker perspective, ERP software aimed to encapsulate best-in-class ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network decided to cover the emerging area of DataOps… and we were overloaded. After an initial couple of stories to define the term here and another exploring DataOps ...

The digital transformation of government and public service delivery is well under way and is by now – hopefully – unstoppable. It’s taken longer to get here than it should have, and it will take ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network decided to cover the emerging area of DataOps… and we were overloaded. After an initial couple of stories to define the term here and another exploring DataOps ...

It’s 4am and I’m a nice ‘conference-style’ hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. The hotel has provided WiFi included with the room - of course it has, you wouldn’t expect anything else - but its 4am and ...

There’s a bookshop located in Old Street Station near our office where we can sometimes be found nonchalantly perusing the blurbs of various works of literature during our lunch break. The other ...

You can love or hate Google Cloud. Some users have adopted the full suite of online apps, use a gmail address as their mail client of choice and even sign up as regular contributors to Google Maps. ...

Since the birth of social media platforms, brands have been carefully adapting their marketing strategies to reach the cool kids on whatever their chosen channel of choice. From MySpace, to ...

Would you ditch your bank or building society if its digital services didn't match up to Google?

The fintech industry in the UK is growing fast but it could face difficulties attracting the right IT talent as a result of the Brexit turnoff

Is fin tech making it too easy for people to mis-buy financial products?

Custom hardware is usually the only option available to organisations that need to achieve the ultimate level of performance for AI applications. But Nvidia has taken massive strides in flipping ...

In this guest post from Henrik Nilsson, vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at machine learning-based IT cost optimisation software supplier Apptio, offers enterprises some ...

Ex-basketball star, philanthropist and entrepreneur Shaquille O’Neal made an interesting appearance at SuiteWorld 2019, not just to DJ at the show’s closing party but also to talk about his various ...

The do say… if it’s not broke, don’t fix it. But that mentality doesn’t really cut it in the ‘let’s make everything perfect’ world of the software application developer, right? How frustrating is ...

An encounter between seasoned trading executive and archaic gold trading processes ignited Goldex Technologies

We remember Google not letting us comment on a YouTube video until we signed up to its barren and now extinct social media platform like it was yesterday, if only in the sense that it’s one of the ...

China’s top insurance company, Ping An, has nabbed a coveted Hong Kong government project to develop the city’s electronic personal identity system, or e-ID, for local residents. When ready, e-ID ...

Elastic is a search company -- it is the creator of the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats and Logstash) -- that is focused on making real time data usable at scale for search, logging, ...

Enterprise Linux company SUSE loves Linux, obviously. As Linux lives so prevalently and prolifically in the server rooms of so many cloud datacentres, the firm has worked to develop technologies ...

The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team this month spoke to Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange on the ‘four commandments’ to follow when choosing a service provider. With a heavy emphasis on ...

As one would naturally expect at an annual convention, SUSE saved up a few partner, product, platform type announcements to break at its SUSECON show this week. Among the positive push ...