UK must pursue overseas tech talent, says start-up body September 8, 2022 A leading start-up body has championed the flow of overseas talent into the UK’s technology sector today as new figures showed that nearly one in five UK tech firms had a foreign founder.
Terrible Thursday for Darktrace as shares nosedive by 25 per cent after private equity walks away September 8, 2022 Darktrace share price jumped sharply on reports last month that it is in talks with private equity fund Thoma Bravo, although no figure was attributed to the discussions. However, this morning it was confirmed that these talks had ended with no prospect of an offer being made in the near future, although the option was [...]
Exclusive: MPs rebuke Wise after it freezes not-for-profit’s account September 6, 2022 Money transfer firm Wise has been rebuked by a group of MPs today after it suddenly froze the account of a non-profit drug policy organisation and prevented its staff from being paid, City A.M. can reveal.
UK reduced card fraud losses by £49m, the highest in Europe for third year running September 6, 2022 The UK reduced card fraud losses by £49m last year, meaning for the third year in a row it was had the highest in Europe. Only Britain, Hungry Sweden and Denmark improved their card fraud losses in the last 12 months, while Portugal and the Netherlands with the biggest offenders, exceeding 15 per cent losses. [...]
Cash no longer king: Lloyds says 90 per cent of payments now by contactless card September 2, 2022 Face-to-face transactions in cash are near to becoming extinct, as the pandemic-driven shift to convenient contactless takes hold. New figures from Lloyds Bank claims there has been a huge spike in the use of contactless payments on debit cards rising from 65 per cent in June 2019 to 87 per cent in 2022. The move away [...]
Modernising UK’s payment infrastructure could boost economy by £3.27bn, key report says September 1, 2022 Modernising the country’s payment infrastructure could boost the UK economy by almost $3.8bn (£3.3bn), a report issued today has claimed. An in-depth study by Global Data, the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) and ACI Worldwide, shows the UK’s GDP would hugely benefit if it upgraded its ageing payments infrastructure and increased real-time payments [...]
Klarna losses more than triple as costs soar August 31, 2022 Losses at buy-now pay-later giant Klarna more than tripled in the first six months of the year as the Swedish fintech was hit by soaring employee costs and rising credit losses as it ramped up its expansion in the US.
Laybuy to share data with credit agencies as BNPL firms clampdown on borrowing August 31, 2022 Laybuy has become the latest buy-now pay-later firm to commit to sharing customer data with credit rating agencies today as the sector looks to clampdown on vulnerable shoppers taking on unaffordable debt.
‘Break the chains’ of regulation holding back challenger banks, MPs say August 30, 2022 A “one-size-fits-all” approach to regulating UK lenders has failed and watchdogs need to “break the chains” restricting the growth of challenger banks, a group of MPs said today.
Wise hit with £308,000 fine in Abu Dhabi over money laundering failures August 30, 2022 London-listed fintech firm Wise has been slapped with $360,000 (£307,801) fine by Abu Dhabi regulators today after a series of failures in its anti-money laundering controls.