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Financial applications

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  SAP banks on “intelligent enterprise” at Sapphire 2018

  SAP, at its SapphireNow 2018 conference, promoted the “intelligent enterprise”, with Hasso Plattner and head of machine learning Markus Noga setting out the philosophy

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Sapphire 2018: SAP will take over CRM market, says McDermott

  SAP’s chief executive Bill McDermott tells 2018 Sapphire conference the supplier will storm the CRM market with its C/4 Hana business applications suite

• June 04, 2018 04 Jun'18

  Subpostmasters told to expect decision on alleged unfair prosecutions in August

  The Criminal Courts Review Commission is expected to announce the findings of an investigation into alleged unfair subpostmaster prosecutions in August

• June 01, 2018 01 Jun'18

  Visa card payments system goes down across the UK and Ireland

  Millions of businesses across the UK and Ireland are unable to accept VIsa card payments because of a "service disruption"

• May 23, 2018 23 May'18

  Singapore to adopt European e-invoicing standard

  The city-state is the first country outside Europe to embrace the Peppol e-invoicing standard to speed up business transactions and lower operating costs for SMEs

• May 22, 2018 22 May'18

  A third of people would buy insurance from Google or Amazon

  Consumers are increasingly likely to buy insurance from tech giants as the insurtech industry hits the mainstream

• May 17, 2018 17 May'18

  Case study: British Airways’ global B2B sales gathered under Salesforce cloud

  British Airways has gathered its international business-to-business sales under Salesforce Sales Cloud to bust silos

• May 16, 2018 16 May'18

  Nordic banks plan major digital transformation of operations

  Banks in the Nordic region are set to accelerate their spending on technology as digital services take-up accelerates

• May 15, 2018 15 May'18

  TSB refused help from Lloyds as IT meltdown began

  TSB turned down an offer of help from Lloyds Banking Group as the migration of customers accounts to its new banking system went wrong

• May 15, 2018 15 May'18

  Santander latest traditional player to open digital bank

  Santander is the latest traditional bank to follow an industry trend and develop a digital banking unit

• May 14, 2018 14 May'18

  HSBC blockchain trial proves trade finance utility model

  HSBC and ING used blockchain to successfully complete a real-world trade financing transaction as part of a pilot

• May 11, 2018 11 May'18

  Virgin Trains on using AI and virtual reality to boost customer experience

  Speaking at the Knowledge 18 ServiceNow conference in Las Vegas, Virgin Trains outlined the potential role immersive and data-driven technologies can play in improving customer experience

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  NatWest fintech investments bear fruit as SME loans platform goes live

  Online lending platform enables small businesses to apply for loans of up to £150,000 in 10 minutes

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  HSBC launches open banking app

  In line with open banking regulation, HSBC has launched an app that enables users to see accounts from 21 different banks in one place

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  TSB offers interest rate sweetener as IT issues continue at the bank

  TSB is offering customers higher interest rate to go towards making up for the problems its core banking system migration caused customers