IT operations management and IT support

TSB tech woes continue with overnight systems failure

TSB customers have experienced problems receiving money into their accounts due to an IT error, just days after the bank was slammed in a report on its IT problems last year Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Swiss packaging manufacturer powers digital maintenance with GE and ServiceMax

Carton and packaging company SIG, which also sells IoT-connected machines to food and beverage firms, has developed a digital maintenance service Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Western Union transfers to AWS cloud

Western Union is the latest financial services form to set out a future in the Amazon Web Services cloud Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Swedish hospitals suffer IT crashes

Hospitals in Sweden’s West Götaland region have suffered computer problems because of as-yet unexplained hard drive crashes Continue Reading

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• Jane Hamrin

Massive increase in fraud attacks on TSB customers during IT meltdown

There was a massive spike in attempts by fraudsters to steal from TSB customers when the bank’s IT systems failed in 2018 Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Holy grail of digital banking is, at first glance, a new channel, not a new concept

Details of Google’s plans in the financial services sector have emerged with nothing groundbreaking so far, but the sector is guessing what comes next Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Low-code maturity boosts efficiency and helps user acceptance

Low-code development is finding new maturity in enterprise application development, and organisations of all kinds are taking advantage of the trends Continue Reading

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• Lindsay Clark

How DBS is pushing the limits of IT efficiency

Besides shrinking its datacentre footprint by 75%, Singapore’s DBS Bank is running twice as many virtual machines on a single socket and decoupling applications from its infrastructure stack Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Australian bourse to overhaul technology infrastructure

The Australian Securities Exchange is embracing digital ledger technology, microservices and DevOps to modernise its core systems Continue Reading

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• Stuart Kennedy

Businesses move key applications off public cloud to save costs

A new study has shown that while many enterprises are able to keep public cloud costs under control, spending can quickly escalate Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Finnish biometric identity plans for seamless air travel

Finnair and Finavia explore options for automatic digital identification and authentication of air travellers Continue Reading

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• Alex Cruickshank

Bet365 backs DevOps to improve site reliability

The online betting site is setting up a DevOps team to improve website reliability and ensure applications are deployed quickly Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

GoCardless and TransferWise create global network for direct debits

Fintechs’ network will make it easier for small companies to expand their customer bases internationally Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Zopa opens testing for its banking products to customers

Zopa's move into the banking sector is gathering pace as customers test out its savings product Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Co-operative Bank extends mortgage service deal with Capita

Co-operative bank has extended a contract to outsource its mortgage platform in a deal with Capita Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Abu Dhabi AI university is key to UAE’s future as the oil dries up

Abu Dhabi’s fledgling artificial intelligence university is part of a highly ambitious 30-year plan to transform the UAE’s economy and culture Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

What changes are needed to create a cyber-savvy culture?

PA Consulting's Cate Pye considers the people and process changes that are necessary to build a security aware business culture Continue Reading

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• Cate Pye, PA Consulting

Gartner: The time is right to make IT a boardroom issue

In many businesses, IT is regarded as an internal service provider and cost centre. Gartner says now is the best time for CIOs to make IT strategic Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

OpenStack to get standardisation boost in China

New standards are being developed by the OpenStack Foundation and a standards body to improve the interoperability of OpenStack distributions in China Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Thousands apply to Abu Dhabi AI University in first week

Artificial intelligence university in Abu Dhabi gets more than 3,000 applications in the week following its application process being opened Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Making the case for integrated risk management

Security experts discuss how an integrated approach to risk and governance can be effectively managed Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

How Sporting Group tackles the Rugby World Cup

Sporting Group has readied its system monitoring to ensure the technology is able to cope with the huge demand for bets during the Rugby World Cup final Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Legacy monitoring tools hamper digital progress

Older monitoring tools lack support for microservices, containerisation and serverless computing, Forrester Consulting warns Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Cost savings drive business automation

While businesses are using automation to save money, many also see robotic process automation as essential to support new business initiatives Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Post Office IT trial judgement within days

The judgment in the second trial in a multimillion-pound legal battle over an allegedly faulty IT system at the Post Office is imminent Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Stronger regulations needed to fix banking IT problems, say MPs

Regulators need to use more potent tools to get banks to sort out problems with their IT systems, as customers become more reliant on digital channels Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

P27 pan-Nordic payments system moves a step closer

Six regional banks sign shareholders’ agreements, agree business plan and make financial commitments to payments platform Continue Reading

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• Alex Cruickshank

Nordic industrial giants continue to choose Indian suppliers for digital transformation

HCL signs new deals with Volvo Cars and Equinor as India-based IT services suppliers continue to grow in the Nordic region Continue Reading

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• Alex Cruickshank

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company uses blockchain for inter-group network

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company is using blockchain internally, with plans to expand it beyond the group boundaries Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

European companies hold back outsourcing amid recession fears

Total outsourcing in Europe plummeted in the third quarter this year, compared with the previous three months Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Virtual Instruments is now Virtana and aims at cloud, containers

Searches for “Virtual Instruments” returned too many synthesizers, so storage monitoring pioneer went through a blue sky ordeal. It has new plans for cloud and container capability, too Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

VR over 5G helps Belfast Harbour vision to become smart port

Harbour teams up with BT to deploy 5G-enabled applications including virtual reality Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Two-thirds of UK financial services firms are using machine learning

The use of machine learning in the finance sector is set to increase as obstacles to its take up are not seen as being insurmountable Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Digital and innovation apprentices to start NatWest programme

NatWest is kicking off a tech apprentice programme, with its digital innovation hub set to play a key role Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Why would a bank that made billions of pounds’ profit cut thousands of staff?

HSBC is the latest bank to make thousands of staff cuts as even profitable businesses need to reshape themselves for the challenges that digital transformation brings Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

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 Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

How APAC enterprises can keep pace with container security

For all the promises of containers, changes in architecture and practices associated with the technology bring new challenges and opportunities Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Swedish authorities introduce robots to help social workers

Software robots free up time for social workers to help benefits claimants find employment Continue Reading

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• Jane Hamrin

Microsoft delivers Surface with benefits for enterprise IT

It may not be headline-grabbing news, but the Surface Pro has screws – it can be taken apart and components such as disk drives can be swapped out Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

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 Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Data storage: The top five storage deployment pitfalls

Key pitfalls in data storage include silos, under-utilisation, backup and disaster recovery, plus neglect of skills and application requirements. We ask analysts how to avoid them Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

A security breach is inevitable, IT leaders warned

No matter how much IT security tech and training is in place, sophisticated, targeted attacks are going to breach company defences, Carbon Black warns Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Interview: James Smith, director of digital, Nationwide Building Society

James Smith says heading up the digital unit at Nationwide Building Society is the best job in the business Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Marketplace push aims to get the NHS automating

Thoughtonomy is hosting a new marketplace to encourage NHS trusts to share their intelligent automation bots Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Dubai’s Precision Group takes manufacturing into the cloud

Head of IT at mould and packaging company talks about leading its digital transformation programme Continue Reading

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• Alicia Buller

Nordic payment collaboration will ease cross-border payments

P27 and Mastercard to bring seamless cross-border payments across Norway, Finland, Denmark and Sweden Continue Reading

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• Alex Cruickshank

Drive for Nordic datacentre transformation

Nordic enterprises looking to spread abroad are outsourcing datacentre IT in cutting-edge ways to gain international advantage Continue Reading

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• Alex Cruickshank

Enterprises can hire software robots at the push of a button

IPsoft is beta testing a marketplace where businesses can look at what software robots are available and interview them about their suitability to take roles Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

CTO interview: Paul Clark, Tandem Bank

Tandem Bank’s chief technology officer had a close encounter with legacy banking when he left his previous job to pursue a career in fintech Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

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 Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

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 Continue Reading

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• Alex Cruickshank

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 Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

IT departments spend millions tackling performance issues in complex IT

A study has found that CIOs are concerned that a modern software-driven, hybrid, multi-cloud architecture will be costly and difficult to manage Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Dutch banks to work together in fight against money laundering

Dutch banks are sharing expertise and resources to help reduce money laundering through their accounts Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

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 Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

5G takes off at Gatwick Airport

Vodafone’s 5G network goes live in airport’s South Terminal Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

How SATS is using digital twin tech to improve operations

Singapore-based SATS has been using a digital twin platform to model food production processes to improve in-flight catering operations Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Spectra tilts at HSM with StorCycle storage management software

Spectra Logic unveils newly-developed storage management platform and two-tier file access and object storage with all data visible to all users for restore Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Inside NatWest Ventures

NatWest Ventures is helping NatWest bank to remain relevant to its SME businesses customer community through digital innovation Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Nokia, NTT Docomo and Omron to test 5G at factory floor

Three firms – Nokia, NTT Docomo and Omron – have banded together to test the feasibility of running a layout-free production line operated by 5G-connected robots and human technicians Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Loyal Dutch IT professionals not being rewarded enough, survey shows

Companies warned they could lose loyal IT staff because salary rises do not match those on offer from rival employers Continue Reading

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• Kim Loohuis

Danish MobilePay app moves away from mainframe

Danske Bank’s popular mobile payment app moves from mainframe to open source DataStax Enterprise built on Apache Cassandra Continue Reading

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• Alex Cruickshank

Allied Irish Banks selects cloud platform for digital transformation

Bank is streamlining its operations through a cloud platform from nCino Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Post Office changes IT leadership reshuffle decision

The Post Office has changed its IT leadership reshuffle weeks after announcing its original plan Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

UK firms getting on top of IT downtime costs

Despite data breach headlines, UK firms are generally improving in their data protection, business continuity, cyber preparedness and understanding of downtime costs, study shows Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Dutch regulator reveals potential Microsoft privacy breach

Netherlands privacy watchdog has revealed potential breaches while testing Microsoft software changes Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

UK banks outage caused by problem at US payment service provider

UK consumers were unable to access some banking services due to a hardware failure at a US payments provider Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Inside Facebook’s engineering culture

An open and transparent culture that encourages developers to take risks and assume the best intent of co-workers has been the defining character of Facebook’s engineering organisation Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Blue Prism gives Nordics the personal touch

UK automation software company has opened and staffed a Nordic office to give customers in the region a better service Continue Reading

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• Jane Hamrin

First government organisation in Bahrain migrates to Amazon Web Services

Sovereign wealth fund’s internal IT team handled migration process, which has slashed the organisation’s technology operational costs Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

London Stock Exchange glitch delays trading

The London Stock Exchange suffered a 90-minute technical outage which prevented early trading in major stocks Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Latest Post Office Horizon problems fixed with software update to blame

The Post Office has fixed the latest problems with its Horizon system, affecting hundreds of branches Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Dutch province pioneers no-code platform

Software development platform removes the need for expert programmers when adding functionality to applications Continue Reading

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• Kim Loohuis

Hundreds of Post Office branches hit by new Horizon problem

Subpostmasters suffering slow running and frozen terminals while Post Office searches for a fix to issues apparently caused by a software update Continue Reading

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• Nick Wallis

Nordic banks move into wearable payment technology

Payment by watch or watch strap is now an option for customers of two banks in Sweden Continue Reading

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• Alex Cruickshank

Birmingham City Council ends 13-year IT contract with Capita

Local authority to bring IT services in-house, saying “the time is right to transfer the services back to the council” Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Nationwide plans 750 tech roles at new digital hub in London

Building society is setting up its first major tech presence in London to help it access deep skills pool Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Computer science undergraduates most likely to drop out

Computer science degrees account for the largest proportion of students who drop out before completion Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

London Stock Exchange agrees to acquire Refinitiv for £22bn

The London Stock Exchange has agreed to a multi-billion pound takeover of data giant Refinitiv Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Deliveroo to build Edinburgh tech hub around acquisition of local startup

Food delivery tech company Deliveroo is using a recent acquisition of local startup Cultivate to build a tech hub in Edinburgh Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

How Singapore’s NTUC Enterprise is embracing digital transformation

NTUC Enterprise is starting to look more like a technology company, employing DevOps to speed up software development and developing new digital business models even as cultural barriers to transformation remain Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Why CIOs should focus on trimming their internal email footprint

Better internal collaboration should be part of a CIO’s digitisation arsenal. But there is resistance to change, especially as email is so dominant Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

London Stock Exchange eyes £22bn acquisition of Refinitiv to expand data capabilities

The London Stock Exchange is looking at a huge tech acquisition to provide customers access to a wealth of data services built using the latest technologies Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

TSB takes another £36m hit related to botched IT migration

TSB has been stung for another £36m in costs related to its botched IT migration last year, but managed a profit in its latest six monthly results Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

One-third of UK councils have IT budgets cut

Many local authorities’ IT budgets are being reduced at a time when they are trying to digitally transform to cut costs and improve processes Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Hewlett Packard Enterprise invests big in India

Enterprise IT giant aims to take advantage of India’s fast-growing economy and the country’s wealth of tech talent Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

French and German companies have contrasting fortunes in India

France is racing ahead of Germany when it comes to making the most of service companies in India Continue Reading

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• Alex Cruickshank

How AntWorks is addressing the pitfalls of RPA

The Singapore-based startup hopes to lower the cost of deploying and maintaining robotic process automation technology with a platform that combines machine learning and data processing capabilities Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Welsh council aims to cut back-office processing costs by 95% through automation

A council in South Wales is expecting to reduce the cost of human resources business processes by up to 95% through robotic process automation Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Deutsche Bank’s public contraction is a major landmark for fintech

German bank is cutting costs overall but is investing more in the latest digital technology as fintechs chip away at banking business Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Cambridge Cognition CTO on applying server monitoring principles to suicide prevention

Cambridge Cognition CTO, Ricky Dolphin, discusses why it pays to think outside the box when trying to find technological answers to business and customer problems Continue Reading

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• Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK

Dutch authorities temporarily halt datacentre construction

Two local authorities in the Netherlands have put the brakes on datacentre construction to give them time to put policies in place to gain more control over builds Continue Reading

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• Kim Loohuis

US judge dismisses challenge over Department of Defense mega-cloud contract

The US Department of Defense looks set to award a $10bn cloud contract after a legal challenge to the procurement process failed Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Zopa gets in-house tech ready for 2019 bank launch

Peer-to-peer lender tests out banking platforms in anticipation of launching products in the UK before the end of this year Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

CDO interview: Julia Aymonier, École Hôtelière de Lausanne

As organisations transform digitally, the roles of those leading these IT projects are changing too, says Julia Aymonier, CDO at Switzerland-based hospitality school École Hôtelière de Lausanne Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Deutsche Bank cuts jobs but increases tech spend

Deutsche Bank is making swingeing cuts to its workforce over the next two and a half years and has pinned its hopes on the latest technology to make it possible. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Thames Water uses ServiceNow to boost helpdesk efficiency

AI-enabled monitoring helps IT to identify anomalies and improve service levels Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

One-third of people prefer instant reply from chatbot about finances to waiting for human reply

Consumers are warming to being supported by chatbots when it comes to financial services, but firms in the sector face hurdles to achieve true end-to-end automation Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

APAC firms in developed markets warm up to cloud ERP

A majority of large enterprises in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore are planning to move their financial applications to the cloud within a year Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

CPS faces legal ruling over refusal to disclose emails with US on WikiLeaks and Assange extradition

A court will decide whether the Crown Prosecution Service can refuse to neither confirm nor deny the existence of correspondence with US on investigations into Julian Assange and WikiLeaks Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly