Banks Risk Losing $230 Billion in Payments Revenue as Stablecoins and Tokenized Deposits Go Mainstream Business Wire Stablecoins, tokenized deposits and central bank digital currencies expected to account for 4% of global payments volume by 2030 Nearly 60% of corporates open to sourcing stablecoin services from non-bank providers Tokenized deposits emerge as banks’ top near-term priority to retain deposits and preserve liquidity USD 4 trillion of capital trapped in accounts to fund cross-border payment flows
Association for Project Management Urges Government and Industry to Use Major National Projects to Create New Opportunities for NEETs and Early-Career Talent Business Wire Association for Project Management (APM), the chartered membership organisation for the project profession, is calling on Government and industry to take urgent action to help young people enter project careers, warning that the UK risks missing out on a generation of talent at a time when AI, infrastructure renewal, clean energy, defence, housing and digital [...]
Owl Labs’ 2026 State of Hybrid Work Report Finds UK Employees Are Caught Between Visibility Pressure and AI-Driven Workloads, Alongside Rising Stress Levels Business Wire 86% of UK employees now use AI at work, with 57% saying it has increased how much they are expected to get done in a day 92% say the right incentives would bring them into the office more often, though 60% would prefer to work in a hybrid model 35% say their work-related stress has increased in the past year, and 37% describe themselves as disengaged at work 59% say their employer uses monitoring software, and 82% want disclosure to become a legal requirement
Cyber Teams Stretched Too Thin as Attacks Intensify and Budgets Shrink, ISACA Research Finds September 22, 2026 38% of European IT professionals say their organisations are experiencing more cyberattacks than this time last year Cyber teams are struggling to keep pace with an increasingly complex threat landscape, with 72% reporting that their job is more stressful now than 5 years ago
UK Consumers Rein In Credit Card Spending in July but Balances Hit Record High for Second Month September 21, 2026 FICO UK Credit Card Market Report for July 2026 underlines need for vigilance by risk teams as affordability rules of new BNPL regulations could shift more spending onto cards
Morningstar Survey: Asset Owners Increase U.S. and Private Market Exposure as AI Risks Rise September 16, 2026 Findings show that global asset owners increased exposure to U.S. assets and private markets while identifying generative artificial intelligence, inflation, and energy and supply chains as leading investment concerns.
Insurers Are Ready to Hand Repeatable Work to AI, Just 6% Would Trust a General-Purpose Model to Do It September 16, 2026 New research finds that 83% of the global insurance market would hand repeatable work to AI; 75% will only allow AI to execute the work with an insurance-specific or governed model. Less than 1% of the market runs fully AI-native operations today.
FICO European Fraud Map: UK Resilient as Other European Countries See Losses Climb by up to 21% September 15, 2026 Card-Not-Present fraud slowly increasing in the UK as social engineering tactics evolve
Corgan Research Explores How Workplace Design Influences Attention and Focus September 15, 2026 Study of Inattentive-Type ADHD in the Workplace Earns Environmental Design Research Association CORE Designation
New Circularity Data: Nine Out of Ten Returned Items Lose Value for Retailers September 10, 2026 New research finds 86% of retailers have established circularity practices, yet only 9% resell more than half of returned products at full price