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• February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15

  Barclays bank launches Twitter payments for customers

  Barclays bank enables consumers to make payments using their Twitter name, using the bank's Pingit mobile banking app

• February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15

  University of Cambridge says peer-to-peer lending will become mainstream

  Financial transactions made on online lending platforms in Europe reached €3bn in 2014 and could hit €7bn this year

• February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15

  UK consumers lack confidence in data protection, study finds

  UK consumers do not believe businesses or governments do enough to protect their data, according to to Symantec’s State of Privacy report

• February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15

  Digital cheque processing could prove fatal blow to hundreds of bank branches

  Banks have reneged on their promise to keep bank branches open, blaming changing consumer habits and digital technology

• February 23, 2015 23 Feb'15

  Schuh deploys public Wi-Fi and mobile stock checking in-store

  Shoe retailer schuh selects cloud Wi-Fi provider Purple WiFi to offer in-store access for customers and staff

• February 20, 2015 20 Feb'15

  More than half of UK consumers call for multi-channel retail

  Over 50% of UK consumers believe online shopping would improve if retailers delivered consistency across all platforms

• February 20, 2015 20 Feb'15

  Digital challenger bank Starling loses its CTO

  The CTO of digital bank Starling has left the company before it has even been granted a banking licence

• February 19, 2015 19 Feb'15

  CIO interview: Paul Coby, IT director, John Lewis Partnership

  Technology is an essential ingredient to the success of John Lewis, and the retailer is ploughing £100m into IT initiatives in 2015

• February 18, 2015 18 Feb'15

  Scaling appropriately an issue for digital startups, says report

  Digital startups often scale their customer bases too quickly before they have had time to implement the appropriate infrastructure

• February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15

  Co-operative Bank to close quarter of branches, with tech picking up slack

  The Co-operative Bank is closing about a quarter of its remaining branches and digital technology will replace them

• February 10, 2015 10 Feb'15

  Why peer-to-peer lending is such a threat to banks

  Consumer trust for finance firms has never been high, and since the financial turmoil at the end of the previous decade it has reached rock bottom

• February 09, 2015 09 Feb'15

  ShopDirect selects IBM managed service with SoftLayer hybrid cloud

  Shop Direct is using IBM’s SoftLayer hybrid cloud in a 10-year outsourcing deal to provide analytics, mobile and social applications

• February 09, 2015 09 Feb'15

  The more IT changes, the more technology issues remain the same

  In the early 2000s Nigel Beighton was CTO at Lastminute.com. Yet, 15 years on, he says the technology issues he faced then have changed little

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  Is the Digital Services Framework making agile procurement difficult?

  Suppliers of agile development services to government have spoken out against the Digital Services Framework, used for commissioning firms to work on public projects

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  Sweeping trend towards digital banking forces RBS branch closures

  Royal Bank of Scotland "taken aback" by ever-increasing take-up of digital banking and announces additional branch closures across UK

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  FCC’s Tom Wheeler offers up net neutrality plan

  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may rule in favour of a strong regulatory environment to preserve the open internet

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  GDS creator Francis Maude steps down as MP

  Cabinet Office minister and creator of the Government Digital Service (GDS) Francis Maude will step down as an MP after nearly 30 years in parliament

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  Santander offers corporate clients cloud storage

  Santander’s cloud storage offer to corporate clients shows how banks could fight back against the IT giants encroaching on their market

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  Sprint 15 confirms plans for government as platform

  A cross-government approach to public service provision would drive platform-based government, heard this year’s digital overview Sprint 15

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  Apple and Google are big but banks have advantages, says Santander boss

  Chairman of Spanish banking giant Santander is confident banks can fight off the challenge in financial services from tech giants

• February 03, 2015 03 Feb'15

  Tesco CIO Mike McNamara quits to join US retailer Target

  Tesco CIO Mike McNamara is leaving the UK supermarket giant and moving to the US to become CIO at retailer Target

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Media industry operates on a shoestring IT budget, says BT

  The media industry struggles to invest in technology, because investors are concerned with making new television and film content

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Google sees 2014 revenues hit $66bn

  Google has seen its revenues for the fourth quarter of 2014 increase by 15% year-on-year.

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Full steam ahead for P&O Ferries e-commerce website

  P&O Ferries has seen a 20% increase in users of its new e-commerce website, which it launched in December 2014

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Scotland sees startup growth, but Wales lags behind

  Scotland’s technology sector has seen a large growth in startup companies since 2009

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  Nesta invests in apprenticeships website for young people

  Nesta has invested half a million pounds into a website to help young people connect with employers and colleges to find apprenticeship schemes

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  Argos to open digital stores in Sainsbury’s supermarkets

  Argos has teamed up with Sainsbury’s with plans to open digital stores within 10 existing supermarkets.

• January 28, 2015 28 Jan'15

  Apple Pay success shows role for technology firms in finance

  2015 will be the year of Apple Pay, according to the firm's CEO. But will it encourage other tech firms with eyes on the financial services sector?

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  CIO interview: Phil Pavitt, global CIO, Specsavers

  Phil Pavitt, the new global CIO of Specsavers, has fixed his sights on helping the high-street optician take a great IT leap forward

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  Harrods invests in digital to entice customers

  Harrods is investing in digital screen and publishing technologies to engage with its customers

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  Halifax launches online banking for children

  Halifax has launched an online banking service aimed at helping 11 to 15-year-olds better manage their money

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  River Island takes part in retail tech startup accelerator

  River Island is the latest company to get involved with a technology startup accelerator

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  UK senior citizens boost online banking popularity

  Britain’s senior citizens are contributing to online banking’s popularity with about 2.3 million people aged 70 to 100 banking online

• January 26, 2015 26 Jan'15

  Future of parliament report calls for digital engagement and online voting

  A report outlines how parliament should embrace digital technology to be more transparent, inclusive and better able to engage the public

• January 23, 2015 23 Jan'15

  Senior judge calls for technology to transform courtrooms

  A senior judge has called for the introduction of technologies such as video and online filing to bring the criminal courts into the 21st century

• January 22, 2015 22 Jan'15

  Online banking the most used digital service in the UK

  Online banking is the most used digital service in the UK, according to 67% of people

• January 22, 2015 22 Jan'15

  Developing software for smartwatches - how Hailo approached the problem

  One of the developers for black cab booking app Hailo talks about the challenges of developing for wearables such as smartwatches

• January 22, 2015 22 Jan'15

  Metro Bank growth points the way for digital retail banking startups

  Digital retail banks starting up in the UK buoyed by the success of Metro Bank, demonstrating the public appetite for new providers

• January 22, 2015 22 Jan'15

  Ebay cuts 7% of global workforce in restructuring plan

  E-commerce giant eBay has announced a restructuring plan that includes cutting 2,400 jobs and a sale or IPO of its enterprise unit

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Cancer Research UK trials contactless donations

  Cancer Research UK installs four smart charity shop windows to enable contactless donations

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Case study: BCBG Max Azria checks out customer engagement chic

  Fashion retailer BCBG Max Azria is stepping out in omnichannel chic with digital in-store solutions and localised web presence

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Second bank enables customers to make payments via Twitter

  Indian bank ICICI has launched a service to allow customers to make payments using Twitter

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  UK leads in global ranking of social open data sharing

  The UK has been named the number one country to use open data for social and economic benefit

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Starbucks launches wireless charging in the UK

  Starbucks has launched wireless charging points in 10 shops in London

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  Younger users prefer biometrics to passwords

  Younger bank customers would rather use biometrics than PINs and passwords for security, according to Visa Europe

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  CIO interview: Sarah Flannigan leads change at the National Trust

  National Trust CIO’s IT strategy is a £40m transformation that represents the biggest change project in the charity's history

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  Canary Wharf Group opens third tech startup space

  London’s Canary Wharf Group has opened a third dedicated space to technology startups as part of its Level39 initiative

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  HMRC trials Gov.uk Verify in busiest month of the year

  Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs is to trial the government’s Verify identity assurance scheme in its busiest month

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  GDS hints at future approach to government-as-a-platform

  The Government Digital Service (GDS) has hinted at a new approach to meet Whitehall’s government-as-a-platform goals

• January 16, 2015 16 Jan'15

  Tesco launches app for Glass as Google pulls programme

  Supermarket Tesco has launched its own shopping app for Google Glass in the same week Google announced it is pulling the product