Global recessions have a habit of stalling the tech startup sector and the innovation it brings, but for open banking pioneer Tink, the large wing of Visa is shielding its ambition from harm. In fact, rather than slim down, Tink currently has an ambitious plan to expand internationally. The Swedish company, which was acquired […]

The Dutch government is allocating €123m to take existing collaborations between vocational education and industry a step further. With this, the government wants to tackle the labour shortage in engineering and ICT so that the Netherlands can continue to focus on the energy and digital transition. The shortage of staff in engineering and ICT […]

It shouldn’t have taken a pandemic to remind everyone across business lines and in executive roles how intrinsically vital networks are to the smooth running of a business, but here we are. And where we are now is in a position of networks being even more important and having to deal securely and effectively with […]

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has proved that an application programming interface (API) layer could be used to connect financial infrastructures to enable everyday payments to be made using a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Alongside the Bank of England, academics as well as private IT firms, the BIS hub developed 33 API […]

BBVA is using cloud-based machine learning and analytics from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support its strategy to put artificial intelligence (AI) and data technologies at the heart of the business. Internal processes, risk management, growth and customer-facing services will be built using the tools. Ricardo Oliver, global head of data engineering at Spanish […]

The latest data from the Office of National Statistics shows that approximately one in six businesses (16%) are currently implementing at least one of the AI applications. Out of those, spam filters were the most specified (11%), with fewer businesses currently using chatbots (4%), facial recognition (3%), voice assistants (1%), and personalised shopping (1%). […]

CGI is to head up a consortium tasked with developing a virtual, cloud-based alternative to traditional “black box” flight data recorders that will be able to transmit telemetry and operational data to the ground in real-time. The IT consultancy secured the contract through the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Space Systems for Safety and Security […]

At the Pure Storage Accelerate event in Las Vegas this week, a couple of ideas got piled up higher than a heap of end-of-lifed hard disk drives (HDDs) in a junk yard. One of them was the company’s contention that the days of spinning disk are limited. In fact, the company proposes it will […]

US retail bank Citi is rolling out technology that will enable its US Personal Banking business to offer customers highly personalised services whether they walk into a branch, use a mobile banking app or phone a call centre. US Personal Banking, which provides debit and credit cards, retail financial services and retail banking to […]

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies could be deployed to aid its content classification work. The alpha phase of the exploratory project is already underway, with the BBFC drawing on its own datasets and the viewing experiences of its […]