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January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26
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
January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26
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
January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26
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
January 27, 2026 27 Jan'26
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

January 22, 2026 22 Jan'26
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
January 22, 2026 22 Jan'26
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
January 21, 2026 21 Jan'26
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
January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26
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
January 19, 2026 19 Jan'26
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
January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26
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

January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26
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
January 12, 2026 12 Jan'26
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
January 09, 2026 09 Jan'26
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
January 07, 2026 07 Jan'26
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
January 06, 2026 06 Jan'26
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
January 06, 2026 06 Jan'26
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
January 05, 2026 05 Jan'26
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
January 05, 2026 05 Jan'26
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
December 31, 2025 31 Dec'25
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
December 29, 2025 29 Dec'25
Top 10 Post Office scandal stories of 2025

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Post Office scandal stories of 2025
December 12, 2025 12 Dec'25
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
December 03, 2025 03 Dec'25
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
December 03, 2025 03 Dec'25
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
December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25
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
December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25
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
December 01, 2025 01 Dec'25
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
November 21, 2025 21 Nov'25
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
November 20, 2025 20 Nov'25
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
November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25
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
November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25
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
November 17, 2025 17 Nov'25
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
November 17, 2025 17 Nov'25
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
November 13, 2025 13 Nov'25
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
November 10, 2025 10 Nov'25
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
November 10, 2025 10 Nov'25
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
November 06, 2025 06 Nov'25
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
October 30, 2025 30 Oct'25
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
October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25
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
October 27, 2025 27 Oct'25
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
October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25
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
October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25
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
October 14, 2025 14 Oct'25
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
October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25
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
October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25
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.
October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25
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
October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25
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
October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25
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
September 29, 2025 29 Sep'25
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
September 23, 2025 23 Sep'25
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
September 23, 2025 23 Sep'25
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