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Financial applications

• February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19

  TSB blames IT disaster for huge losses

  TSB made a huge loss in its latest financial year because of costs it incurred as a result of an IT disaster

• January 29, 2019 29 Jan'19

  SAP FY 2018: Cloud revenue nears €5bn, 10,500 customers for S/4 Hana

  SAP’s full-year 2018 results show cloud revenue at 20% of the total, which was €24.7bn, while the fourth quarter saw 1,000 customers added to its flagship S/4 Hana

• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  Lloyds Bank to migrate hundreds of thousands of customers to Google-inspired fintech

  Following its announcement that it was exploring the use of a fintech platform, Lloyds Bank has been quick to plan customer migration

• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  Santander announces latest branch closures as digital channels take over

  Bank to close 140 more UK branches as in-branch transactions fall and digital banking accelerates

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Mastercard fined over half a billion euros for unfair payment fees

  Mastercard has been heavily fined for having rules on interchange fees which distorted the EU single market

• January 15, 2019 15 Jan'19

  Thousands of known errors on controversial Post Office computer system to be revealed

  Known errors log concerning Horizon IT system set to be announced during second High Court trial in subpostmasters’ long-running dispute with Post Office over financial losses

• January 02, 2019 02 Jan'19

  How e-signatures fix broken digitisation

  A big barrier to the end-to-end digitisation of business processes is that certain steps require paper – but DocuSign plans to fix this

• January 02, 2019 02 Jan'19

  Subpostmasters suing Post Office over IT failures stunned by CEO’s honour

  Subpostmasters’ campaign group attacks Post Office CEO Paula Vennells’ New Year honour amid ongoing court case

• December 20, 2018 20 Dec'18

  Top 10 financial services stories of 2018

  Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 financial services stories of 2018

• December 17, 2018 17 Dec'18

  Financial services giant transforms application delivery through HCL

  Dutch financial services firm Aegon is outsourcing the management of its fintech supplier network

• December 13, 2018 13 Dec'18

  Chief technology officers in high demand in finance sector

  Financial services firms need to hire experienced chief technology officers as the sector is transformed through fintech

• December 07, 2018 07 Dec'18

  Court orders Post Office to explain inability to access encrypted file

  Post Office unable to open encrypted recording of an interview that forms part of its evidence in High Court case

• December 07, 2018 07 Dec'18

  Complex Post Office Horizon case set to continue into 2020

  Court case where subpostmasters are suing the Post Office set to span at least four trials and extend into 2020

• December 04, 2018 04 Dec'18

  Zopa gains banking licence and prepares launch

  Peer-to-peer lending pioneer Zopa is turning its attention to retail banking in the UK, with plans to offer savings, credit and money management products

• December 04, 2018 04 Dec'18

  Barclays staff to transfer to HCL as IT deal is expanded

  Bank announces closure of operation in Lithuania, with employees transferring to IT services company HCL