Open Banking is the UK’s response to the EU Payments Services Directive (PSD2); an EU directive requiring banks to share customer transaction data with licensed third parties when requested to do so by the end-user or customer in question. Introduced in January 2018, it is a regulatory roadmap. Developed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) …
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As reported by SBCNEWS last week, the licenses of seven UK on-course bookmakers are now under review by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) for allowing a 16-year old to place a bet at this year’s Royal Ascot event in June. Although on-course bookmakers across the UK are carrying out checks to ensure that under-aged persons …
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Shift left is a principle that focuses on sharing your service and support desk’s knowledge within your organization and in time, with its clients, customers and end-users. The basic idea behind shift left is simple. Once a service desk has a knowledge sharing practice in place, they can easily shift their knowledge even further left …
Via one W2 contract and a single, simple API integration, our clients can access W2’s global data services to suit its business needs and sequence the data in a way that make it as cost effective as possible.
Little did we know how much there was to gain from getting an updated perspective from the entire company at our recent Simplithon; especially given the informal way in which it was done. Capturing what problems, issues, and pains arise for others gave us a much better understanding of our entire company and the problems …
Sitting through the Stage 1 of a ISO 27001 certification audit is pretty daunting; even as a seasoned Information Security Management (ISM) professional. Although often referred to as a ‘documentation review’ or ‘Desktop audit’, the auditor is there to review your documentation to establish whether your ‘Information Security Management System’ (ISMS) meets the requirements of …
Most modern organizations operate in a state of constant competition. In order to maintain your market position, business continuity and high availability of your organization’s products, goods or services is paramount. The way that businesses handle the effects of a disaster primarily depends on how well they are prepared for it and how quickly any …
We generally do not like to talk about death however mortality screening is a fundamental part of payments and pensions administration. Without it, increased reputational risk due to the fallout from the painful and often distressing over-payment recovery procedures when dealing with the grieving family; let alone the wasted time, effort and money caused by the administrative overhead.
As more and more of our daily transactions are taking place online, it has never been easier for young people to buy products and access services and content that are age-restricted. Although online businesses include basic age checks such as ‘tick boxes’ for users to confirm that they are old enough to buy products and …
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