Financial applications
Find news stories, analysis and case studies to help you best leverage financial applications to drive forward business and corporate strategies. Stay abreast of new financial applications developments, and get expert advice on how to evaluate corporate performance management (CPM) software, and manage corporate performance management systems. Learn how to best use software to improve financial management processes such as forecasting, planning and budgeting. And read about how to use financial analytics software to create performance dashboards to aid decision-making.
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News
27 Feb 2026
UK has laid track for open banking, but failed to run trains
The UK risks losing its fintech leadership, with open banking progress slow, as countries such as the UAE and India advance rapidly Continue Reading
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News
24 Feb 2026
Starling expands internationally as demand for banking as a service continues to rise
UK challenger bank has expanded its banking-as-a-service business with entry into New Zealand Continue Reading
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News
24 Feb 2026
Email from 1999 reveals Post Office ECCO+ system crash problems
ECCO+ system experienced freezes during transactions, which could have left Post Office branch account discrepancies Continue Reading
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Feature
19 Feb 2026
Challenges and benefits of cloud for the finance department
Cloud finance systems can improve automation, analytics and scalability, but CFOs must also address governance, cost control and workforce readiness. Continue Reading
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E-Zine
19 Feb 2026
CW APAC – Trend Watch: CIO trends 2026
The growing use of artificial intelligence is set to shape another year of IT strategy. In this handbook, focused on CIO trends for 2026 in the Asia-Pacific region, Computer Weekly looks at how Ryt Bank is using agentic AI, the modular design of Indian datacentres and the future of security operations. Continue Reading
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News
19 Feb 2026
Bank of Ireland UK fined for late security system implementation
The payments regulator has fined the bank nearly £4m after it missed a deadline to implement a system to check payees Continue Reading
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News
18 Feb 2026
Eradicating Fujitsu and Horizon from the Post Office, step by step
Post Office IT chief tells Computer Weekly about the challenges and progress in removing the controversial Horizon system from Post Office branches Continue Reading
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News
17 Feb 2026
Businesses may be caught by government proposals to restrict VPN use
Labour proposals to restrict social media use to people aged 16 and under could have unintended consequences for businesses using virtual private networks Continue Reading
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News
17 Feb 2026
Banks to discuss UK alternative to Visa and Mastercard
Banks prepare to discuss a new payments infrastructure that would remove heavy reliance on US firms Continue Reading
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News
16 Feb 2026
Pascal Brier, Capgemini: AI will prove its enterprise truth this year
Capgemini’s chief innovation officer says the 2025 rise and deployment of artificial intelligence agents put enterprise AI progress on hold, but laid the ground for acceleration to come Continue Reading
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News
12 Feb 2026
Government bank digital project a ‘full-spectrum disaster’ exposing taxpayers to risk
National Savings and Investments is unable to tell Public Accounts Committee the cost of its modernisation programme Continue Reading
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News
12 Feb 2026
College of Policing accounts ‘disclaimed’ by auditor for second year in wake of IT failure
Government auditors have refused to endorse the financial accounts of the professional body for policing in England and Wales for a second year, following IT project blunders Continue Reading
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News
11 Feb 2026
Peer ‘disappointed’ that DWP review of subpostmaster prosecutions is still months away
Government indicates that there are 108 DWP prosecutions of subpostmasters that will be reviewed so far, but little progress has been made Continue Reading
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News
11 Feb 2026
Fujitsu will be out by next summer, says Post Office CTO
Post Office’s project to replace its controversial core system will contract suppliers by the summer of this year, with the aim to remove Fujitsu by summer 2027, according to its chief technology officer Continue Reading
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News
10 Feb 2026
Apple and Google pledge to improve app fairness
The CMA is seeking views on Apple and Google’s commitments to ensure fair app store practices to stoke the UK’s app economy, fintech and improve developer confidence Continue Reading
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News
06 Feb 2026
Australia’s CommBank partners business school to research artificial intelligence
CommBank wants to better understand how its customers perceive, use and trust artificial intelligence, as the technology is set to reach every corner of the finance sector Continue Reading
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News
06 Feb 2026
Minister responds to criticism of Post Office Capture redress scheme
Redress claim on ‘pause’ as UK government agrees to look at complaints about scheme for those who suffered hardship from using the Post Office Capture system Continue Reading
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News
06 Feb 2026
ANZ rolls out AI agents for business bankers
Australian lender claims to be the first in Asia-Pacific to deploy Salesforce Agentforce at scale, following a national roll-out of a CRM platform that consolidates data from different systems to ease administrative toil Continue Reading
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News
04 Feb 2026
Banks reduce reliance on OpenAI as strategies mature
Banks are increasingly using alternative AI providers as Anthropic and Google eat into OpenAI’s dominance Continue Reading
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News
02 Feb 2026
HMRC chooses cloud SAP S/4Hana for tax system overhaul
HM Revenue & Customs is bidding to modernise its tax systems by migrating from ECC6 to SAP’s cloud-based Rise with SAP programme, adopting S/4Hana and AI to enhance efficiency and taxpayer experience Continue Reading
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News
30 Jan 2026
History repeats itself in Post Office Capture redress scheme with low-ball offers made
Early signs show that former Post Office Capture users face derisory initial compensation offers and face impossible appeals process Continue Reading
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News
30 Jan 2026
Sir Alan Bates slams ‘nonsense’ reported about his financial redress settlement
Campaigning subpostmaster speaks out about the highly inaccurate claims about the compensation he received Continue Reading
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News
28 Jan 2026
Nationwide expands Amazon Web Services partnership to delve deeper into AI
Nationwide will have access to artificial intelligence-powered tools to help staff in their everyday interactions with its members Continue Reading
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News
27 Jan 2026
Peer demands independent investigation into DWP’s prosecution of subpostmasters
The DWP’s promised review of subpostmaster prosecutions doesn’t satisfy the demands of politicians and campaigners Continue Reading
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News
22 Jan 2026
Macquarie Bank rolls out AI agent to personalise customer support
Australian bank launches a 24/7 intelligent assistant capable of asynchronous human hand-off, joining the country’s major financial institutions in the race to deploy AI-powered services Continue Reading
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News
22 Jan 2026
DWP review of Post Office worker prosecutions yet to start, months after announcement
The DWP said in August that it would carry out an independent review of prosecutions of subpostmasters, but it has yet to appoint a reviewer Continue Reading
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News
21 Jan 2026
UK government appoints banking tech bosses as AI champions
Appointment of artificial intelligence champions from banking sector comes as MPs make stern warning about AI risks in financial services Continue Reading
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News
20 Jan 2026
NatWest Boxed tech team drives business on embedded finance wave
NatWest Boxed tech team doubles up as the force behind NatWest’s challenger bank, as well as its white-label banking service Continue Reading
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News
19 Jan 2026
UK financial regulators exposing public to ‘potential serious harm’ due to AI positions
MPs warn that action is needed to ensure artificial intelligence is adopted safely in the finance sector as companies capitalise on its opportunities Continue Reading
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News
13 Jan 2026
Post Office scandal’s oldest victim calls for total ban on Fujitsu
Betty Brown wants the IT supplier at the centre of the Post Office scandal banned from all government contracts Continue Reading
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News
13 Jan 2026
UK open banking is eight years old and ready to grow into the wider economy
The next phase of open banking will have a greater impact as it morphs into cross-sector open finance Continue Reading
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News
12 Jan 2026
UK regains second spot in global fintech investment ranking
Global fintech investment was up 21% and the UK retook second spot in the market ranking for the full year 2025 Continue Reading
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News
09 Jan 2026
Salesforce advocates AI fluency framework alongside customers
Salesforce has launched an ‘AI fluency playbook’ based on its own workforce’s experience, aimed at guiding customers on AI adoption, stressing what it sees as human-AI synergies Continue Reading
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News
07 Jan 2026
CCRC says multiple Post Office software systems potentially implicated in miscarriages of justice
Statutory body said its work has widened to multiple IT systems, and could even look at potential Post Office miscarriages of justice with no link to IT Continue Reading
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Opinion
07 Jan 2026
Why AI agent recoverability is vital for business resilience
While AI agents are transforming operations they bring risks. Governance, monitoring, and instant rollback can help with resilience, trust, and safe innovation Continue Reading
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Feature
06 Jan 2026
Results and prospects for AI in business applications in 2026
Agentic AI dominated enterprise IT discourse in 2025, evolving from generative AI. In 2026, AI convergence and governance will determine AI’s impact on enterprise IT Continue Reading
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News
06 Jan 2026
Fujitsu Post Office IT support team were ‘legalised hackers’
Backdoors meant it was possible for Fujitsu staff to steal money from Post Office branches, says former Fujitsu tech worker Continue Reading
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News
06 Jan 2026
Fujitsu boss has been a Post Office scandal bystander for over a decade
IT supplier’s European boss was kept up to date with challenges to the Horizon system, but like others, remained silent Continue Reading
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News
05 Jan 2026
How Bahrain is building a region-leading digital economy
From hyperscale cloud and fintech regulation to AI skills and smart manufacturing, Bahrain is positioning technology at the heart of its economic diversification strategy, says Bahrain EDB’s Musab Abdullah Continue Reading
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News
05 Jan 2026
What will the Post Office scandal bring in 2026?
Campaigners are waiting to see what will unfold in the Post Office scandal in 2026, but history has told them not to hold their breath Continue Reading
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News
31 Dec 2025
Top 10 business applications stories of 2025
There is no doubt what took centre stage in the theatre of business applications in 25: agentic AI, surpassing pre-2022 AI, and generative AI. C-level executives bang the AI drum while enterprises find value Continue Reading
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News
29 Dec 2025
Top 10 Post Office scandal stories of 2025
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Post Office scandal stories of 2025 Continue Reading
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Feature
16 Dec 2025
Court rule that fuelled Post Office’s prosecution rampage: Everything you need to know
This guide contains essential information about the legal rule that enabled the Post Office to wrongly prosecute subpostmasters Continue Reading
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News
12 Dec 2025
University of York plumps for Workday to spruce up HR and finance
The University of York is replacing 57 HR and finance systems with a Workday platform, supported by KPMG, aiming for real-time insights and simpler processes Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Dec 2025
The agentic AI future of enterprise architecture
As agentic AI changes business processes, it will also redraw the role of enterprise architecture Continue Reading
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News
03 Dec 2025
Post Office finally investigates Horizon defect, but investigator slams comms strategy
Subpostmaster and investigator met the Post Office over Horizon defect raised six years earlier Continue Reading
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News
03 Dec 2025
AWS CEO Garman pitches ‘billions of agents’ as enterprise AI future
At Amazon Web Services’ annual conference in Las Vegas, CEO Matt Garman projected an agentic AI future for enterprises, with models trained on customers’ own data Continue Reading
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News
02 Dec 2025
Post Office scandal could widen to thousands more branches after third system appeal
Post Office scandal campaigner reveals she had her suspicions over a third Post Office system, as review of convictions based on APS/APT looks likely to bring thousands more subpostmasters into scope Continue Reading
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News
02 Dec 2025
Former Post Office legal boss won’t escape police reach
Police say they will question those who evaded the public inquiry, naming former Post Office legal boss Jane MacLeod as an example Continue Reading
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News
01 Dec 2025
Interview: Mariano Albera, CTO, Checkout.com
Checkout.com’s chief technology officer has spent most of his career in the e-commerce industry, and now he is applying what he learned to the finance sector that serves it Continue Reading
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Feature
28 Nov 2025
Can business software empower rather than control workers?
Acclaim Autism is a US organisation that has increased employee task discretion, with an increase in insurance approvals by using AI – but worker autonomy is declining across the UK Continue Reading
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News
21 Nov 2025
Subpostmaster was told no jury would believe Post Office had ‘dodgy computer’
Academic research says the wrongful prosecution of subpostmasters casts doubt on ‘golden thread’ of British justice, that people are innocent until proven guilty Continue Reading
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News
20 Nov 2025
Fujitsu milks £110m from HMRC in six months with hardly a public stir
IT giant Fujitsu pockets £110m from deals with HMRC in six months since the end of March this year Continue Reading
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News
19 Nov 2025
Workday sets out to reinvent ERP with agentic AI platform
At Workday Rising EMEA, the HR and financial applications SaaS supplier signalled a new phase of development as an agentic AI platform provider that might disrupt traditional ERP Continue Reading
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News
19 Nov 2025
Artificial intelligence helps Klarna double revenues with half the staff
Swedish fintech has gradually replaced half of its staff with artificial intelligence and doubled its revenues Continue Reading
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News
17 Nov 2025
UK investment bank IT outages cost £600k an hour
Survey respondents say there are barriers to resilience for UK investment banks, including a skills shortage and internal resistance Continue Reading
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News
17 Nov 2025
Salesforce: CIOs closer to the bridge than ever due to agentic AI
Salesforce research finds CIOs closer than ever to steering the business, acting as strategic partners to their CEOs, thanks to the growth of agentic AI Continue Reading
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News
13 Nov 2025
Post Office contract with Fujitsu has option to extend into 2028
Extension agreement for controversial Horizon contract with Fujitsu has option that could take the relationship well into 2028 Continue Reading
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News
10 Nov 2025
Post Office extends controversial Fujitsu contract in £41m deal
The Post Office’s controversial Horizon contract with Fujitsu will run until at least March 2027 Continue Reading
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News
10 Nov 2025
DBS enhances GenAI chatbot for business clients
The bank’s virtual assistant, DBS Joy, has been enhanced with generative AI capabilities to provide business customers with faster and better answers to their queries Continue Reading
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News
06 Nov 2025
Unearthed report reveals source of Post Office’s tenuous Capture sales pitch
Computer Weekly reveals report that misguided the Post Office’s sales pitch to subpostmasters for its controversial Capture system Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 Nov 2025
Authentic Intelligence: rooting AI in daily lived experiences
This is a guest blog post by Aaron Harris, CTO, Sage. Every week brings another AI announcement promising significant improvements to business operations. Yet for many IT leaders, the reality feels ... Continue Reading
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News
30 Oct 2025
Post Office scandal investigator warns public inquiry about Horizon defect at large for years
Forensic investigator who helped expose Horizon scandal described defect ‘sufficiently serious’ to inform public inquiry Continue Reading
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News
29 Oct 2025
Post Office Capture redress scheme ‘went down like lead balloon’ and is ‘discriminatory’
Subpostmasters frustrated after meeting with government minister on the announcement of compensation scheme for those who had problems with Post Office Capture Continue Reading
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News
27 Oct 2025
Post Office paid one law firm more for inquiry representation than cost of actual inquiry
Public inquiry into one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in UK history cost less to run than the Post Office paid one law firm for representation during the four-year process Continue Reading
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News
24 Oct 2025
Government awards Post Office £2m contract to search for its own Capture records
Up to 1,500 claims expected from former users of the Post Office’s controversial Capture software Continue Reading
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News
16 Oct 2025
CCRC formally sends Post Office Capture referral to Court of Appeal
The statutory body agreed in July to refer the conviction of Capture software user Patricia Owen to appeal court Continue Reading
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News
14 Oct 2025
Shameless Fujitsu boss confident firm will be back in ‘good books’ in 18 months
Pressure is mounting on Fujitsu as its internal culture and lack of genuine regret over its part in the Post Office scandal are revealed by Computer Weekly Continue Reading
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News
08 Oct 2025
Fujitsu boss said Post Office inquiry report wasn’t ‘that bad’, despite link to suicides
Computer Weekly reveals callous comments made by a senior Fujitsu executive about Post Office scandal inquiry report Continue Reading
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News
07 Oct 2025
Peer demands Fujitsu pay £700m in interim as it prepares response to Post Office scandal inquiry
Fujitsu, government and Post Office set to outline restorative justice plans, as peers calls for an interim payment towards costs. Continue Reading
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News
06 Oct 2025
SAP: AI is commoditising business applications
Business applications are at risk of being commoditised with artificial intelligence increasingly becoming the new interface that lets businesses execute tasks across different systems, according to a senior SAP leader Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Oct 2025
Fujitsu’s role in the Post Office scandal: Everything you need to know
Computer Weekly has investigated the Post Office Horizon scandal since 2008. In this guide, we look at the part Fujitsu played in what is commonly referred to as the largest miscarriage of justice in UK history Continue Reading
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News
01 Oct 2025
Interview: Wayne Barlow, head of terminal products, Bloomberg
Techie turned business leader Wayne Barlow heads up the development of Bloomberg’s customer-touching terminal software Continue Reading
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News
01 Oct 2025
Over half of UK adults use mobile wallets
Cash accounted for less than 10% of payments in the UK in 2024, according to UK Finance figures Continue Reading
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News
29 Sep 2025
Global payments network Swift builds blockchain capability
Not-for-profit global payments network to initially use blockchain-based shared ledger for cross-border payments, with further use cases to follow Continue Reading
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News
23 Sep 2025
Post Office Capture appeals slowed by poor records
Poor data on the use of the Post Office Capture software is slowing the review of criminal convictions, says lawyer Continue Reading
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News
23 Sep 2025
EU to shut door on Big Tech in financial data sharing
US tech giants to be excluded from EU’s Financial Data Access initiative, which enables the sharing of certain customer financial data Continue Reading
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News
18 Sep 2025
UK banks still run software code written more than 60 years ago
More than half of UK banks still rely on computer code written in or before the 1970s, and which is understood by only a few of their staff Continue Reading
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News
15 Sep 2025
‘Utter madness’ as Post Office paid law firm double the cost of scandal public inquiry
The Post Office legal representation at public inquiry into Horizon scandal cost twice as much as the actual inquiry Continue Reading
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News
12 Sep 2025
Post Office Horizon accounts are still a mess and replacement system is years away
Sources say the Post Office doesn’t know whether millions of pounds of branch discrepancies are real or not Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Sep 2025
Post Office Horizon scandal explained: Everything you need to know
Computer Weekly has investigated the Post Office Horizon scandal since 2008 and is, in fact, part of the story. This guide contains essential information about the scandal Continue Reading
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News
09 Sep 2025
Fujitsu braced for double-digit decline triggered by ‘foolish display of legal machismo’
Internally, Fujitsu UK is braced for major revenue decline as Post Office scandal takes its toll Continue Reading
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News
04 Sep 2025
Depression, anxiety, PTSD and suicidal thoughts: Post Office victims speak out
Report finds that former subpostmasters suffered and are continuing to suffer severe mental and physical problems due to their treatment by the Post Office Continue Reading
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News
04 Sep 2025
Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 team chooses SAP Cloud ERP to gain edge
Formula 1 team Mercedes-AMG Petronas has chosen SAP Cloud ERP to help it comply with upcoming regulatory changes from the FIA Continue Reading
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News
03 Sep 2025
Open banking take-up grows by a third
Rising payments are driving the adoption of open banking, with more than 15 million users in July Continue Reading
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News
02 Sep 2025
Scottish Widows completes migration of millions of accounts to TCS platform
Pension provider reaches milestone in its digital transformation with Indian IT services giant Continue Reading
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News
28 Aug 2025
Zopa Bank seeks partners to form AI skills coalition
Survey by Juniper Research and Zopa Bank reveals full return on investment in artificial intelligence over next five years Continue Reading
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News
21 Aug 2025
Police investigation into Post Office scandal to cost more than £50m
Metropolitan Police-led investigation into Post Office scandal is expected to run to 2030 and cost taxpayers tens of millions of pounds Continue Reading
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News
21 Aug 2025
Subpostmaster federation accepted money from Fujitsu in run-up to High Court Post Office trial
The National Federation of Subpostmasters accepted sponsorship money from Fujitsu in the run-up to a High Court case examining the IT firm’s faulty Post Office system Continue Reading
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News
13 Aug 2025
SAP touts Business Suite as key to enterprise AI
The German software giant pitched its Business Suite set of integrated applications for the AI era, along with the SAP Joule copilot as the future orchestrator of business workflows, at its customer conference in Melbourne Continue Reading
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News
13 Aug 2025
Fujitsu orders staff to retain Post Office-related documentation as it braces for legal action
Japanese supplier tells all UK staff to preserve documents related to its work with the Post Office Continue Reading
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News
12 Aug 2025
Workday research: 75% of employees will work with artificial intelligence, but not for it
Workday research finds 75% of workers like AI as a teammate, but only 30% want it to be the boss. Trust in the technology may grow with use, but human focus, clear roles and governance are key Continue Reading
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News
12 Aug 2025
UK state-owned bank goes cloud-native
State-owned National Savings and Investments bank used contract renewal as an opportunity to keep pace with changes in the market Continue Reading
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News
12 Aug 2025
Salesforce research: CFOs zealous for agentic AI
A Salesforce study says chief financial officers have shifted from agentic artificial intelligence caution to putting the technology front and centre of their business strategies Continue Reading
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Feature
11 Aug 2025
Will CDPs deliver on the marketing promise of personalisation?
Customer data platforms are being touted by suppliers as the means to deliver the single customer view after which organisations have long lusted. Will the promise finally be delivered? Continue Reading
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News
04 Aug 2025
Integrated platforms offer lifeline to Singapore’s F&B sector
A partnership between payments firm Adyen and restaurant operating system provider Atlas is helping merchants to streamline operations, slashing errors by up to 80% and boosting sales as the sector faces record closures Continue Reading
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Opinion
01 Aug 2025
The blind spot: digital supply chain is now a board-level imperative
Many companies lack visibility into complex digital supply chains, meaning hidden risks and regulatory exposure. Cyber security requires continuous mapping and board engagement Continue Reading
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News
25 Jul 2025
Post Office will not compensate subpostmasters for IT outage
Subpostmasters were unable to trade for nearly two hours last week when a problem at a Fujitsu datacentre put the Horizon system offline, but they will receive no payment for lost business Continue Reading
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News
24 Jul 2025
UK loses second spot in global fintech to UAE
The UK has been pushed into third spot on global fintech market size data for the first half of this year Continue Reading
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News
23 Jul 2025
Subpostmasters shoulder costs of Fujitsu’s Post Office IT outage
Fujitsu datacentre outage hit subpostmaster sales for two hours, leaving subpostmasters to seek compensation Continue Reading
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News
18 Jul 2025
Peer warns IT suppliers against partnering with Fujitsu in government contracts
According to publicly available figures, Fujitsu has won over half a billion pounds in government business as prime contractor since January 2024, but there is more than what has been reported Continue Reading
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News
18 Jul 2025
First Post Office Capture conviction referred to Court of Appeal
A former Capture software user’s 1998 theft conviction is the first to be referred to the Court of Appeal Continue Reading