Global banks are increasingly looking to partner more fintechs rather than build technology in-house. According to research by East & Partners for financial services software firm Finastra, three-quarters of banks plan to work with an average of three fintechs in the next 18 months Globally, over half (56%) want to plug into fintech platforms, […]

The growth of Northern Ireland’s flourishing cyber security ecosystem – which has one of the highest concentrations of security business in the world and is on the way to adding nearly £500m of value and 5,000 new jobs to the economy by 2030 – has only been made possible through the historic peace agreement […]

The Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA) has welcomed the final version of the European Parliament’s Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), which will put the onus on larger European datacentre operators to publicly report their environmental performance data. The European Parliament and European Council reached a provisional political agreement that finalised the contents of the EED […]

All government departments and a selected number of arm’s length bodies are to have their cyber security postures reviewed under new, more stringent measures being put in place under the auspices of an enhanced security regime, known as GovAssure, to be run by the Cabinet Office’s Government Security Group with support from the National […]

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK are leading Europe when it comes to accepting contactless payments, with almost all now accepting near-field communications (NFC)-based card payments. According to a survey by SME-focused fintech SumUp, 90% of UK SMEs now accept payment by contactless cards. In Switzerland, 85% of SMEs accept the payments, […]

Enterprise business leaders are struggling to hit corporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals because of inadequate data. That’s according to The ESG ultimatum: Profit or perish report by the IBM Institute for Business Value, which revealed that while environmental sustainability remains a top priority for consumers and business leaders alike, the bulk of […]

Public sector outsourcer Capita has confirmed that some confidential data was stolen from a small proportion of its server estate affected by a Black Basta ransomware attack in March 2023. The incident caused major IT outages and significant impact to customer-facing services at many public sector bodies and some operators of critical national infrastructure […]

The scale and pace of Russia’s wartime cyber operations have been unprecedented, but Ukraine has nonetheless provided the world with a masterclass in withstanding open cyber warfare through bolstered defences and improved resilience, according to a European Cyber Conflict Research Institute (ECCRI) report commissioned for the National Cyber Security Centre’s annual CyberUK event, which […]

The marketplace for commercial hacking tools and services is set to expand dramatically between now and 2028, leading to the victimisation of more organisations and individuals in a far more unpredictable threat landscape, according to threat researchers at the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Published on the opening day of the NCSC’s annual […]

The UK government is failing to protect workers from being “exploited” by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, which if left unchecked could lead to greater workplace discrimination across the economy, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has said. The union body further warned that many workers are not even aware AI is being used to make […]