Tag: COVID-19

As the number of people using services online has ballooned over the last year due to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the threat posed by cybercriminals around the world has grown even stronger. How can companies and governments alike deal with this coming storm?

A BAE Systems survey has found nearly three-quarters of financial organisations have experienced a rise in cybercrime since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.

A survey by data analytics company FICO has found up to 4% of UK consumers believe their identity has been stolen online.

Research by mobile analytics platform App Annie has discovered mobile FinTech apps outperformed banks by a factor of up to 10.8x during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The UK could be increasing the contactless payments limit from £45 to £100, as one of its first moves away from the European Union.

The number of women at the UK’s five biggest financial companies plummeted by 3% during 2020, posing a serious question to the sector’s diversity pledges.

The UK FinTech community has welcomed Ron Kalifa's review, but stakeholders argue the government must do more to take the sector seriously and protect the nation's position as an industry leader.

To counter the economic effects of Covid-19, Italian and German banks have drawn up a document highlighting ways for financial banks across Europe to mitigate the risk of further loss.

A recent report commissioned by Mobiquity has underlined the key priorities for UK wealth managers at this current time.

The UK’s top financial markets watchdog has found that 27.7 million people in the country have been left in a financially vulnerable state in the coronavirus aftermath.