Christian Noyer, a former governor of the French central bank, has joined the board of British blockchain group Setl.…
HSBC suffers mobile app outage amid Black Friday shopping spree
HSBC customers were left locked out of their mobile banking accounts during the height of the Black Friday shopping s…
We’re trying to marry the skills available in a startup with a corporate, says Barclaycard CIO
Barclaycard is best known for its debit and credit cards in the UK, but the division of Barclays is actually a multin…
Starling COO reveals how bank built business account offering in 12 weeks
In the first week of January, the challenger bank Starling set out to launch a current account for small and medium s…
ICO hands Equifax maximum fine for huge data breach
The UK’s data protection regulator has issued Equifax with a £500,000 fine after it suffered one of the largest…
TSB CEO Paul Pester steps down amid fallout from botched IT migration
Paul Pester has stepped down as chief executive of TSB in the wake of a catastrophic IT meltdown earlier this year. M…
The government’s obsession with billion dollar startups is hurting the tech sector
‘Unicorns’ – mythical creatures that have become a part of the political reality as policymakers seek to champion the…
How “regtech” could usher in a new era for the finance sector
Financial services as we know them are changing as new technologies enter and disrupt the market, promising consumers…
A cybercrime gang linked to North Korea is turning its hand to Mac malware
A cybercrime gang linked to the North Korean government has launched a new malware campaign targeting cryptocurrency …
The FCA is now forcing banks to tell customers how many outages they’ve suffered
Banks are being forced to disclose details of major operational and security incidents online for the first time, jus…