7th January 2020 – London, UK – Crossword Cybersecurity Plc (AIM:CCS, “Crossword”, the “Company” or the “Group”), the technology commercialisation company focused solely on cyber security and risk, has significantly strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of a Group Sales Director and a new Chair of its consulting subsidiary to assist in driving growth during 2020. Sean Arrowsmith joins as Crossword’s first Group Sales Director in January, responsible for both product and consulting sales... Source: RealWire

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Frankfurt/Main, January 7, 2020 – The Frankfurt Digital Finance conference launching on February 5, 2020 at the Frankfurt Zoo Palais, pioneers a new and dynamic event in Central Europe’s financial hub. Around 400 decision makers and innovators from the finance industry, fintech, and the public sector, as well as investors, regulators, and academics will participate. Topics include the specific challenges of an ecosystem with established market players as well as newcomers. Clusters with particular fit... Source: RealWire

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Direct access to banking services streamlines workflows for accountancy firms London, 7th January 2020 - Tribe Payments, a team of industry experts dedicated to delivering the future of payments, has announced the first implementation of its new Bankbox service. With technical integration completed in under one month, Telleroo has rapidly streamlined its bulk payment service for accountancy firms and bookkeepers, creating a single unified workflow for payroll and supplier transactions on behalf of their SME... Source: RealWire

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London, UK, 6 January 2020: The number of products being sent back on National Returns Day (2nd January) were expected to be 72% higher than the average day in December according to the Royal Mail - contributing massively to the yearly total of £60 billion worth of products being returned to UK retailers. Latest data by B-Stock, a leading online secondary marketplace, showed that toys, speciality kitchen items, tools and women’s trendy apparel are the... Source: RealWire

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Digital Workforce, a global leader in RPA and Intelligent Automation services, announces its expansion into Germany, opens offices in Munich and Stuttgart and welcomes Jürgen Vollmer as Sales Director in DACH. Munich, January 2, 2020 - Digital Workforce, Europe’s fastest-growing automation disruptor, has been expanding into new countries in the past eight months by establishing the business in the UK and the US and now moving into the German-speaking market. The company has currently nine... Source: RealWire

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Openmind partnership with Fluent Commerce enables Smith Optics of Safilo Group to offer customers fast and affordable home delivery with an easy returns process London, UK – 17.12.2019: Smith Optics, the world leader in the production of ski goggles and helmets along with premium sunglasses and prescription frames, has chosen Fluent Commerce, the world’s number one Distributed Order Management (DOM) platform to help make it faster and easier for customers to enjoy home deliveries and... Source: RealWire

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The industry-changing acquisition of Insite marks Episerver’s third major announcement in Q4 London, U.K, December 16th, 2019 – Episerver™, the customer-centric digital experience company, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire B2B commerce leader Insite Software™. The deal continues Episerver’s unparalleled momentum heading into 2020 after the company’s November 2019 acquisition of content personalization and analytics company Idio and its December 2019 hiring of longtime SAP executive Alex Atzberger as CEO. “The gifts came early... Source: RealWire

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…MSP, Ergo, agrees to support LINUX endpoints given TCO and management benefits… Reading, UK. December 12, 2019 – IGEL, provider of the next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces, today announced that the E-Services & Communications Credit Union (ESCCU), an ICT sector focused credit union headquartered in Dublin, has transitioned to VDI to introduce a fast, flexible, secure and easy to manage desktop computing environment for staff which is cost effective to run. ESCCU has invested... Source: RealWire

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Solution integration streamlines transactions for international student families attending K-12 schools in the UK LONDON, 11 DECEMBER, 2019 – Flywire, a provider of vertical payment and receivables solutions for businesses and institutions, today announced a new integration partnership with iSAMS, a 100% web-based school management and integrated accounting solution. Flywire will integrate its comprehensive payment and receivables platform for Education with the iSAMS iFinance solution, streamlining international payments for K-12 students and their families while... Source: RealWire

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Oxford Economics study points to India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan and Mexico as stand-out markets for growth in financial services for the unbanked SAN FRANCISCO, December 11th 2019 - A new report published today projects that establishing financial identities for the world’s financially excluded – or “unbanked” – population would add an extra USD $250 billion to global gross domestic product (GDP), mainly from developing nations in Asia and Latin America. This is the equivalent... Source: RealWire

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