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• December 23, 2025 23 Dec'25

  Top 10 financial services stories of 2025

  AI and data breaches both caused major disruption in banking this year as the industry faced increased challenges and a seismic shift thanks to emerging tech. Find out more in Computer Weekly’s top 10 financial services stories of 2025

• December 18, 2025 18 Dec'25

  Post Office six years late to warn subpostmasters about Horizon defect

  Following pressure from Computer Weekly and forensic investigator, the Post Office has warned subpostmasters about Horizon defect potentially at large for over 20 years

• December 17, 2025 17 Dec'25

  Jilted Fujitsu replaced by Netcompany in HMRC relationship

  Troubled Fujitsu replaced by Netcompany on trading service as HMRC begins to move its outsourcing away from scandal-hit firm

• December 12, 2025 12 Dec'25

  National Audit Office praises Bank of England after complex mega-project

  Public spending watchdog says the Bank of England’s core system replacement project offers lessons to other government departments

• December 12, 2025 12 Dec'25

  Digital Ethics Summit 2025: Open sourcing and assuring AI

  Industry experts met to discuss the ethical challenges associated with assuring AI systems, and how open source approaches can challenge concentrations of capital and power

• December 11, 2025 11 Dec'25

  Oracle expects to increase OCI margins by 30-40%

  Market analysts are concerned about the AI bubble bursting, but Oracle’s latest earnings call shows it is still expanding datacentre roll-outs

• December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

  Fujitsu underestimated Post Office scandal backlash

  Troubled IT supplier loses UK government megadeal despite internal confidence, as political pressure mounts

• December 08, 2025 08 Dec'25

  How police live facial recognition subtly reconfigures suspicion

  A growing body of research suggests that the use of live facial recognition is reshaping police perceptions of suspicion in ways that undermine supposed human-in-the-loop protections

• December 05, 2025 05 Dec'25

  Cyber teams on alert as React2Shell exploitation spreads

  Exploitation of an RCE flaw in a widely used open source library is spreading quickly, with China-backed threat actors in the driving seat

• December 04, 2025 04 Dec'25

  Fujitsu police contract ‘complicates’ Post Office investigation

  National Police investigation into Post Office scandal uses IT infrastructure provided by Fujitsu

• 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 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 28, 2025 28 Nov'25

  CCRC refers case based on third faulty Post Office system

  The latest Post Office prosecution to be sent to the Court of Appeal involves a third IT system in a 2001 case, after previous referrals for people convicted due to flaws in Horizon and Capture software

• November 27, 2025 27 Nov'25

  SAP selects Tata Consultancy Services to transform its IT operations

  Software firm agrees five-year IT transformation project with Indian outsourcing giant, taking relationship up to 20 years

• November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

  US breach reinforces need to plug third-party security weaknesses

  Cyber breach at US financial sector tech provider highlights the risk of third-party vulnerabilities in finance ecosystems

• November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  Big tech backers put Nordic AI bid into perspective

  Nordic countries declare plan to become world leaders in artificial intelligence by joining forces

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  Government launches GDS Local

  Councils will get support from a dedicated unit to transform local digital services, alongside an online platform for public sector digital and data professionals

• 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 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  Finland uses tax reform to attract foreign tech investment

  Finland is attempting to attract more foreign technology investment through lower corporate tax

• November 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  Firstsource ditches labour arbitrage for AI-driven outcomes

  The business process services firm argues that the days of simple labour arbitrage are gone as it pushes an ‘un-BPO’ strategy led by AI and automation

• November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

  Management reboot essential for agentic AI strategy

  Agentic AI is not just an investment in technology with a fixed term replacement cycle, it can also be an employee that improves over time, says report

• 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 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

  Dutch datacentre growth stalls while hydrogen remains untapped

  ING warns grid congestion threatens Dutch datacentre leadership, while the country’s championed hydrogen solution remains largely untapped

• November 13, 2025 13 Nov'25

  Two-thirds of finance firms use suppliers for AI agent development

  Survey finds more banks and insurers are working with suppliers rather than going it alone when developing artificial intelligence agents

• 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 12, 2025 12 Nov'25

  Hungry for data: Inside Europol’s secretive AI programme

  The EU’s law enforcement agency has been quietly amassing data to feed an ambitious but secretive artificial intelligence development programme that could have far-reaching privacy implications for people across the bloc

• November 12, 2025 12 Nov'25

  US cyber intel sharing law set for temporary extension

  The CISA 2015 cyber intelligence sharing law, which lapsed just over a month ago amid a wider shutdown, will receive a temporary lease of life should attempts to reopen the federal government succeed

• November 12, 2025 12 Nov'25

  Microsoft users warned over privilege elevation flaw

  An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Windows Kernel tops the list of issues to address in the latest monthly Patch Tuesday update

• November 12, 2025 12 Nov'25

  Synnovis to notify NHS of data breach after nearly 18 months

  Synnovis, the pathology lab services provider hit by a Qilin ransomware attack in 2024, is notifying its NHS partners that their patient data was compromised, following a lengthy investigation

• November 12, 2025 12 Nov'25

  IT services companies and datacentres face regulation as cyber security bill reaches Parliament

  The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will require large IT services companies, including datacentres, to report security incidents within 24 hours

• November 11, 2025 11 Nov'25

  Most Singapore SMEs yet to start their sustainability journey

  Lack of funds, skills and time are the barriers faced by Singapore’s small and medium-sized enterprises in the green transition, according to a study by Gprnt and PwC

• November 11, 2025 11 Nov'25

  National Highways to get more out of its data through single platform

  Government-owned organisation National Highways will get more out of its data through extended working with IT service provider

• 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 05, 2025 05 Nov'25

  M&S profits tumble after cyber attack

  M&S profits fall by over 90% in the wake of the spring 2025 cyber attack that crippled the retailer’s systems for weeks

• November 05, 2025 05 Nov'25

  SAP TechEd 2025: Make AI real, grind in data

  SAP TechEd in Berlin put an accent on building agentic and generative AI systems to create real business outcomes, beyond what its executives say is excessive hype

• November 05, 2025 05 Nov'25

  Bugcrowd brings Mayhem AI to bear on ethical hacking community

  Bugcrowd acquires scaleup Mayhem Security to enhance the ingenuity of its human hackers with AI-backed software testing capabilities

• November 04, 2025 04 Nov'25

  UAE Sovereign Launchpad begins nationwide roll-out with support from e& and AWS

  The cloud infrastructure platform aims to strengthen digital resilience and regulatory compliance across government and regulated sectors in the United Arab Emirates

• November 04, 2025 04 Nov'25

  Microsoft’s $15.2bn investment in the UAE: A strategic bet on AI, talent and trust

  Microsoft’s decade-long investment in the United Arab Emirates underscores its commitment to building a robust artificial intelligence ecosystem, advancing digital infrastructure and fostering local talent through a strategic partnership with G42

• October 31, 2025 31 Oct'25

  OpenUK works with UKRI on open source guidance for public sector

  Collaboration aims to boost awareness of open source initiatives, community development and the procurement process

• October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

  UK ramps up ransomware fightback with supply chain security guide

  Multinational guidance, developed by the UK and Singapore, is designed to help organisations reinforce their supply chain against ransomware attacks

• October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

  Banks’ AI cost-cutting benefits won’t last, will ‘erode’ profits

  Banks are making significant cost savings through initial artificial intelligence implementations, but the technology will eventually hit their profits

• 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 23, 2025 23 Oct'25

  Capita rubbishes Public Accounts Committee report claims

  The outsourcing giant has missed IT deadlines, stoking fears it won’t be ready to take over the civil service pension contract

• October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

  Jaguar Land Rover attack to cost UK £1.9bn, say cyber monitors

  The UK's Cyber Monitoring Centre calculates the overall cost of the Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack will be almost two billion pounds

• October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

  Atos boss ‘utterly determined’ not to allow GenAI to pull up career drawbridge

  AI is being used in all sectors of the economy and society, but adopters must ensure the next generation of professionals are not denied a first rung on the ladder because of it

• October 21, 2025 21 Oct'25

  OpenInfra Summit Europe: Migrating off VMware

  With Broadcom’s focus on VMware Cloud Foundation subscriptions, OpenStack is being positioned as the open source alternative