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IT services and outsourcing
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October 16, 2019
16
Oct'19
Zopa continues in its mission to apply a Netflix user experience to banking
Zopa has made a credit scoring tool available as it continues to expand the portfolio of products it offers beyond loans.
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October 14, 2019
14
Oct'19
French and German banks end talks on challenger bank sale
After months of negotiations, BPCE's proposed sale of Fidor Bank to OLB has fallen through
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October 14, 2019
14
Oct'19
PDPC issues cross-border data transfer guidelines for cloud services
Singapore’s data protection watchdog issues advisory guidelines to help businesses and cloud suppliers stay on the right side of the law under the country’s data protection regime
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October 10, 2019
10
Oct'19
GoCardless gives 95% of its staff business intelligence at their fingertips
Fintech payments company GoCardless is enabling staff to carry out business intelligence queries themselves
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October 10, 2019
10
Oct'19
How AWS is cracking the public sector cloud market
The public sector cloud business takes time and resources to build, but the rewards can be meaningful, as the founder of Amazon Web Service’s public sector division has found
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October 10, 2019
10
Oct'19
UK and Middle East PR firm ditches NetApp for Nutanix and Talon Fast
Four Communications needed better connectivity for collaboration between the UK and its gulf sites, so dumped server/storage for hyper-converged and a distributed file system
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October 09, 2019
09
Oct'19
CIO interview: Mohamed Sater, head of IT at Mumtalakat
Mumtalakat’s head of IT, Mohamed Sater, is modernising the IT infrastructure of the organisation through cloud computing
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October 09, 2019
09
Oct'19
Inside Singapore Airlines’ cloud and DevOps journey
A team of engineers at Singapore’s flagship carrier shed light on how they are overcoming challenges in embracing cloud computing and DevOps
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October 08, 2019
08
Oct'19
Sweden’s SEB explores core banking in the cloud
Swedish Bank is the latest organisation to agree to start using a Google-inspired, cloud-native core banking platform
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October 04, 2019
04
Oct'19
Red Hat: We’re a neutral broker
Red Hat remains agnostic in supporting organisations that are looking to run the same container orchestration platform in a hybrid and multicloud world
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October 03, 2019
03
Oct'19
New threat group behind Airbus cyber attacks, claim researchers
Context Information Security’s threat intel and response teams says it has evidence that the recent supply chain attacks on Airbus are the work of a newly identified group called Avivore
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October 02, 2019
02
Oct'19
HMRC extends contract with Capgemini but embeds flexibility
Department’s technology sourcing programme seeks to access the services of more tech providers, including SMEs and startups
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October 01, 2019
01
Oct'19
IR35 reforms will prompt Barclays to re-engage contractors on PAYE terms, 'leaked email' suggests
Barclays is understood to have notified line managers via email on 30 September 2019 of its plans to phase out use of limited company contractors, ahead of the IR35 private sector reforms coming into force in April 2020
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September 30, 2019
30
Sep'19
Australia gets ready for open banking
Traditional banks and fintech firms alike will need to bite the bullet in the crucial startup period if Australia’s open banking regime is to succeed
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September 30, 2019
30
Sep'19
Dubai’s Precision Group takes manufacturing into the cloud
Head of IT at mould and packaging company talks about leading its digital transformation programme
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September 29, 2019
29
Sep'19
Private sector warned of ‘brain drain’ risk by putting off prep for April 2020 start of IR35 reforms
Legal firm warns private sector companies about the risks of putting off preparations for the IR35 reforms that take effect next year
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September 27, 2019
27
Sep'19
GDPR compliance: Whose job is it and is it really possible?
Nobody seems to have a good handle on business GDPR compliance, how many businesses are compliant, or indeed what compliance really is, but according to security experts, it very much depends on who you talk to
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September 26, 2019
26
Sep'19
How drones and machine learning can prevent crocodile attacks
Cloud-powered drones equipped with machine learning algorithms will soon be able to detect crocodiles lurking in the waters of Queensland, Australia
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September 25, 2019
25
Sep'19
National Library of Scotland says aye to Scality object storage
National digitised archives move off Hitachi SANs and Qualstar tape, object storage is embraced and a “no backup” strategy put in place with petabyte-scale Scality S3/file deployment
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September 24, 2019
24
Sep'19
Latest Lorca cyber security challenge has IoT focus
Government-backed cyber security innovation centre Lorca has issued new challenges around connectivity for its next intake of scaleups
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September 24, 2019
24
Sep'19
Pure adds Optane and QLC flash to boost performance and capacity
Flash storage player adds Intel Optane modules performance, a capacity flash range based on QLC drives, plus rebranding and GA of its on-premise/cloud leasing service
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September 24, 2019
24
Sep'19
Cloud provider sweeps away legacy storage for 1PB of Infinidat
Core DataCloud decommissions storage from several vendors to consolidate to 1PB on Infinidat Infinibox, with DRAM and flash to accelerate hot data in front of disk back end
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September 24, 2019
24
Sep'19
Australia’s RMIT teams up with AWS on cloud skills training
Two new online courses will equip IT and business professionals with the skills to thrive in a cloud-first world
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September 23, 2019
23
Sep'19
The Nordics’ passion for gamification goes global
Nordic startups are pioneering the gamification of educational apps, with an international market looking on
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September 20, 2019
20
Sep'19
Drive for Nordic datacentre transformation
Nordic enterprises looking to spread abroad are outsourcing datacentre IT in cutting-edge ways to gain international advantage
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September 19, 2019
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Sep'19
Direct Line built an insurtech it can tweak a thousand times a day
Insurance group Direct Line has added a new business to its portfolio, designed to let it act as a sandbox for its digital journey
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September 19, 2019
19
Sep'19
Nordic IT outsourcing: why India is leading the pack
A rising tide lifts all ships when it comes to outsourcing in Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark, but some ships have risen faster than others
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September 18, 2019
18
Sep'19
Singapore Airlines extends use of VMware Workspace One
Singapore’s national carrier is extending the use of Workspace One to more users in a move to enable its workforce to stay productive while on the go
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September 18, 2019
18
Sep'19
Facebook automatically generates pages for Islamic State and Al-Qaeda
Facebook algorithms have auto-generated hundreds of Facebook pages for the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda and Ansar al-Sharia, according to a whistleblower
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September 18, 2019
18
Sep'19
Amadeus opens systems to kick-start innovation-driven ecosystem
By opening its systems, travel software company Amadeus is hoping to foster ecosystem-wide innovation in the travel industry
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September 17, 2019
17
Sep'19
Inside Oman’s new tech startup drive
Oman is aspiring to be a tech startup hub and is on a mission to compete with its neighbours in the Gulf
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September 17, 2019
17
Sep'19
Travelex launches fintech platform for B2B customers
Travelex has launched a digital platform that enables businesses to use its services via application programming interfaces
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September 17, 2019
17
Sep'19
Ecuador citizens’ data breach holds lessons for enterprises
What caused the mass breach of Ecuadorian citizens’ data, and what can businesses learn from it?
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September 16, 2019
16
Sep'19
Ensign InfoSecurity opens global headquarters in Singapore
The Singapore-based cyber security firm’s new headquarters will also be home to a new security operations centre that will be supported by Singapore-centric threat intelligence
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September 16, 2019
16
Sep'19
Research explores economic benefits of full-fibre and 5G at local level
The Broadband Stakeholders Group (BSG) has published research by Oxera to help local authorities understand the benefits of full-fibre and 5G
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September 13, 2019
13
Sep'19
West Midlands gears up for the next phase of 5G
West Midlands 5G (WM5G) marks launch of UK’s first dedicated 5G accelerator programme by holding a series of demos to showcase the wide variety of use cases that exist for the technology
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September 13, 2019
13
Sep'19
Fintech lender increases loan limit as customer demand accelerates
Small business lender Esme Loans has increased its loan limit to quarter of a million pounds as businesses are drawn to its simple and fast digital platform
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September 13, 2019
13
Sep'19
Industry opposition to no-deal Brexit hardens, says TechUK
A survey of TechUK members has found that 71% believe a no-deal Brexit at the end of October will negatively affect them in spite of their preparations
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September 12, 2019
12
Sep'19
How Zendesk plans to crack the enterprise market
Zendesk has been courting enterprises by billing itself as a customer experience software company and is leaning on its design smarts to stand out among bigger rivals
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September 12, 2019
12
Sep'19
Less than quarter of fintechs prepared for no-deal Brexit
A survey reveals that less than a quarter of UK fintech companies have their businesses prepared for the UK's exit from the EU
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September 12, 2019
12
Sep'19
Bloomberg will move historic trading data to cloud in support of clients’ machine-learning ambitions
Bloomberg’s CIO for enterprise, Tony McManus, says its clients’ changing attitude to using cloud is changing the way the firm makes its real-time trading data available to the financial services community
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September 11, 2019
11
Sep'19
Fintech Fluidly combines Google’s cloud and AI tech to ease SME cashflow management woes
London-based fintech Fluidly explains how its recent all-in move to the Google Cloud is supporting its continued growth, and delivers new features to customers faster
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September 10, 2019
10
Sep'19
Inside NatWest Ventures
NatWest Ventures is helping NatWest bank to remain relevant to its SME businesses customer community through digital innovation
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September 10, 2019
10
Sep'19
Ctera launches hybrid cloud HC2400M at media use cases
Edge filer specialist hits up the media and entertainment market with its NAS-like hardware that caches data locally, syncs with other nodes and stages data to the cloud
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September 09, 2019
09
Sep'19
Commvault buys Hedvig in push for global storage player status
Backup player Commvault aims to bring together datacentre and multi-cloud operations with software-defined storage that can unify access to almost any storage medium, anywhere
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September 09, 2019
09
Sep'19
UK artificial intelligence investment reaches record levels
Funding for artificial intelligence (AI) in the UK has already surpassed 2018 figures, placing it behind only China and the US
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September 03, 2019
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Sep'19
Allied Irish Banks selects cloud platform for digital transformation
Bank is streamlining its operations through a cloud platform from nCino
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September 02, 2019
02
Sep'19
TSB works with Silicon Valley tech firm to help SME customers take card payments
UK bank will offer its small business customers card-processing and point-of-sale technology by partnering with a fintech set up by Twitter CEO
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September 02, 2019
02
Sep'19
Nordic greentech attracts investment
The Nordic region is seeing digital innovation across a diverse range of sectors and, not surprisingly, a region known for its green credentials also has a burgeoning green technology (greentech) sector
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August 30, 2019
30
Aug'19
Location analysis expands Nordic telco’s range of services
Nordic telecoms company works with startup to offer services to businesses through location data analysis