Finance
Interest rates on hold but South African consumers remain under pressure
Following March’s decision by the South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), the latest data from TransUnion points to a consumer environment that remains fragile, with many hou...
Company pension schemes: An over-looked cyber-risk that boards can no longer...
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. As cyberthreats intensify, company pension schemes have emerged as a critical vulnerability – often falling outside core cybersecurity frameworks and attracting increasing a...
New WSO2 API management offerings harness AI for productivity and governance
API management plays a central role in enabling applications and digital services to harness the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. WSO2 is empowering software developers to gain new levels of...
Cash and short-term allocation to bank deposits drop to the lowest in four...
Forty-seven percent of organisations’ cash and short-term allocation are maintained in bank deposits, according to the 2023 Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) Liquidity Survey, underwritten by...
One in three finance and accounting professionals admit B2B procurement is...
Zip has announced the results of the 2023 Trends in B2B Purchasing survey of 1,056 US-based finance and accounting professionals – director-level and above. Respondents are overwhelmingly eager to move the procurement process...
Reinforcing trusted advisor status through technology...
Technology can play a leading role for accountants looking to strengthen their tax guidance with regards to Research and Development (R&D) Tax Claims. Mike Dean, Managing Director of WhisperClaims, explains how...
Brookfield to acquire a minority interest in American Real Estate Partners
American Real Estate Partners, a leading institutional fund manager and real estate developer, and Brookfield Asset Management, a leading global alternative asset manager headquartered in New York with over US$1...
Carlyle raises over US$2 billion for its second infrastructure credit fund
Global investment firm, Carlyle, has announced the final close of Carlyle Infrastructure Credit Fund II, with approximately US$2.3 billion in total capital commitments, exceeding its US$2 billion target. The fund is...
Multi-million dollar fund to finance five-star hotel in Riyadh
The Sports Boulevard Development Company has signed agreements with Rikaz Properties to establish its third real estate investment fund, valued at more than US$186 million (SAR700 million). The...
Syspro and Nuvei partner to embed integrated payments into ERP for manufacturing and...
Syspro, a purpose-built ERP platform for manufacturing and distribution, and Nuvei, a global FinTech building the infrastructure for every payment, everywhere, announced a partnership to...
UK remains Europe’s leading M&A market as investors favour selective add...
Europe’s M&A and private equity market has entered 2026 with significantly larger and more selective transactions while regaining momentum. According to a new report by Drooms, a leading European due diligence platform an...
Grants of up to £5,000 to fill empty shops
The sight of empty shops in the high street is commonplace in the UK towns up and down the country. One market town council in Shropshire is hoping to change that by offering grants of up to...
Oracle’s results driven by triple digit growth in cloud infrastructure r...
Oracle announced its Q1 FY27 results with strong revenue growth. Total quarterly revenues increased 30% to US$19.3 billion, reflecting strong execution in our infrastructure business, with the delivery of 850MW...
Coinbase establishes its tokenisation hub in Abu Dhabi
Coinbase has received a Financial Services Permission from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) to establish its international tokenisation hub in ADGM, the international financial...
Verifone brings biometric-capable payment devices to Australia
Paying for a morning coffee could soon be as easy as smiling at the payment device. Verifone, a leading provider of payment technology in Australia, has announced it is bringing biometric technology to the...
EBANX and Pagaleve blend Pix and BNPL to expand access to instalment plans to...
A new payment option aims to widen access to instalment purchasing in Brazil, allowing more consumers to spread the cost of online purchases while helping merchants unlock growth among underserved customer groups....
Permutable uses AI to decode global macro narratives before markets move with...
Permutable has announced the launch of its Global Macro Sentiment Indices (GMSI), a new AI-native data product designed to help financial institutions track macroeconomic risk through structured sentiment...
Syspro and Nuvei partner to embed integrated payments into ERP for manufacturing and...
Syspro, a purpose-built ERP platform for manufacturing and distribution, and Nuvei, a global FinTech building the infrastructure for every payment, everywhere, announced a partnership to...
Concern over reliance on foreign technology providers guides the conversation...
Casper Klynge is Zscaler’s Vice President, Head of Government Partnerships and Public Policy across EMEA. He leads political work and strategic relationships with governments, international and regional organisations ac...
Why data deletion has become a boardroom issue
As AI adoption and Digital Transformation accelerate, organisations are generating more data than ever before, making data deletion, governance and regulatory compliance critical boardroom priorities, says Prashant...
New survey reveals critical need to shift from legacy web forms to secur...
Kiteworks, which empowers organisations to effectively manage risk in every send, share, receive and use of private data, released its comprehensive 2025 Data Security and Compliance Risk: Data Forms Survey...
In a fragmented AI regulatory environment, companies must set their own...
In light of the European Union’s AI Act coming into full force in 2026, Squirro’s Co-founder & CEO, Dorian Selz, looks at a critical yet often overlooked challenge – the lack of standardisation in AI regulation across a g...
Navigating the post-DORA landscape
Businesses had two years to make sure they were compliant with The European Union’s Digital Operational Resilience Act. DORA was designed to accomplish two main things – to address ICT risk management in the financial ser...
Did the EU betray its green agenda with a scaled-back version of the CSDDD?
The CSDDD represented a major change in the way businesses could operate in the EU, with a focus on sustainability in a company’s operations and throughout the supply chain. But Naomi Grossman, Learning and Content M...
