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Sign up for my Daily Fintech or Daily Digital Banking Newsletters here. Check out my latest podcast episode below: Welcome to your daily FinTech news! In case you missed it, please see below today's most relevant news, or tune in to our Daily Fintech Podcast here. NEWS HIGHLIGHT Revolut is launching a one-click payment feature called Revolut Pay, in a bid to rival PayPal and other tech giants at online checkouts. Revolut Pay has signed up retailers, including Shopify Inc., Prestashop, WH Smith Plc, and Funky Pigeon, and will be available within the airline industry in the coming months. Link here. FINTECH NEWS #BreakingNews PayRetailers Group acquired Asamblo. As part of the agreement, Asamblo's talent will join PayRetailers' team. With the new staff, PayRetailers expands its IT project management capabilities and expertise. Argentina-based Asamblo leads the sector of digital solution development for financial institutions. Link here. #FinTechInnovation Padu-backed tekkis launched t-Pay. The solution protects against stolen IDs, glare obstruction, and watermarks, while also detecting and preventing user registrations with expired IDs. Link here #Partnerships Easy EP partnered with Carta Worldwide. Under the new partnership, Carta Worldwide will provide the issuer processing services that connect Easy EP to Visa's payment network. Link here
The Cybercrime Magazine Podcast brings you our daily alert, which provides boardroom and C-suite executives, CIOs, CSOs, CISOs, IT executives and cybersecurity professionals with a breaking news story we're following. If there's a cyberattack, hack, or data breach you should know about, then we're on it. Airs every day on WCYB and our podcast. For more on the latest cyberattacks, hacks, and breaches, visit https://cybercrimewire.com
Coming up in this week's episode: 10 Downing Street devices hit by cyberattack, Funky Pigeon data breach, Manx Care GDPR breach penalties, Controversy over Saseido data breach, British businesses urged to be cautious in use of Police Cybersecurity app, CNIL introduces fast-track GDPR breach process, Hong Kong Commissioner issues report into Nikkei Inc data breach, Lapsus$ attacks T-mobile, BobRedsMills data breach, Mcarther and English data breach, Wawa sues Mastercard for recovery of data breach penalties, EDPB issues further guidance on GDPR implementation, GDPR and the EU AI Act compared
The Cybercrime Wire, hosted by Scott Schober, provides boardroom and C-suite executives, CIOs, CSOs, CISOs, IT executives and cybersecurity professionals with a breaking news story we're following. If there's a cyberattack, hack, or data breach you should know about, then we're on it. Listen to the podcast daily and hear it every hour on WCYB. The Cybercrime Wire is sponsored by Deloitte Cyber. To learn more about our sponsor, visit https://deloitte.com/cyber • For more breaking news, visit https://cybercrimewire.com
Introducing Max Whicher. He runs Spin Brands, a social media agency dedicated to delivering scale through social.  Spin Brands work with 100's of brands including the likes of LVMH, Tango, Funky Pigeon, Google and LoveHoney - ranging from strategy and creative to organic, ambassador and paid.  What they're doing is clearly working. The agency recently announced a client freeze. After 250 new enquiries, the 40 people strong agency announced that they were pausing new clients until 2022. Mic drop.  Beyond the agency, Max is also an angel investor, having invested in businesses such as Heights, Buttermilk Skincare, Cool Cold Brew, among others.  This episode is a chance to get to grips with where social is going as well as get tips and insights on what you can do to make an impact in a crowded social market.  Not one to be missed. Â
The result of a week long workshop run at Goldsmiths University with the 3rd Year BA design students, as part of their accelerator month. The students created a series of radio plays looking at multiple societal issues in critical and playful ways. This is an edited version of the broadcast, few performances are missing, as we couldn't accomodate all of them in this archive. Apologies! The performances included in this edit are: Techno Pussy, Jellypocalypse, Tomato, Badassrobot, Catch the Whale, Money Voice, Turing test, Funky Pigeon, Project Yellow Submarine, Waste Wonderland
We were so inspired learning about how this week’s guest overcame postnatal depression and went on to launch a mental health themed card range with Funky Pigeon that launched in Mental Health Awareness Week this year. Amy Steel’s story is incredibly honest and insightful so press play to delve right in. Here we go! Mental is the brain-child of Bobby Temps, who lives and thrives while managing his own mental health. Every Thursday we delve into a factor or condition that influences the mind and how to better manage it. Amy’s card range - https://www.funkypigeon.com/believe-in-happy Petition to 'Get Mental Health Education on the School Curriculum' - Join us at http://bit.ly/MentalPetition Recommended Book: Yes Please by Amy Poehler - Get your first audio book for free with our link http://bit.ly/mentalbooks Join the movement on: Instagram - http://instagram.com/mentalpodcast Twitter - http://twitter.com/mental_podcast We also have a very blue website with loads of great resources - http://mentalpodcast.co.uk Music License: 9a85d3842b2a4c278c272de91122ba72 Puppy by Netsky on Lickd. Listen here: https://lnk.to/Netsky2ID
Our host Chloe Thomas attended the DCA Digital Marketing Day last week, and now brings you her quick picks of the top takeaways from the event. Including great advice on how to get started with Optimisation and Personalisation. AND how Funky Pigeon has reworked their automated emails to create huge results. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy
The investment of time and effort that goes into the re-brand of an online business could be easily let down by a sluggish website. A fast-performing server with reliable support, however, could maximise the impact of a successful relaunch. UKFast's dynamic approach coupled with Funky Pigeon's impressive ambition turned out to be a perfect partnership. Launched in October 2009 to replace remind4u (the firm's previous online offering) Funkypigeon.com is an online personalised gift service that specialises in personalised greetings cards. The firm's founder and managing director, Richard Pepper says: "The opportunities that online business affords you if you have the right product, the right price and the right service to get to a potential mass market are huge. UKFast has helped us realise that and helped us reach our potential. We're now setting ambitious targets for more growth and with the technology and support from the Enterprise team we know our website will be able to handle it. "I've learned so much from UKFast that I don't just see them as our hosting company anymore."
UKFast Enterprise Overview. UKFast Enterprise is a specialist division of UKFast, formed to specifically look after the hosting requirements of large blue chip clients. We've spent a lot of time looking at the types of products and solutions that are needed by enterprise businesses, with the main aim of providing complete reliability. The team includes our most experienced solutions architects, technical engineers, account managers and sales professionals - so we can design and build IT solutions to suit bespoke requirements. Enterprise businesses can save large amounts of money by using outsourced IT services, as well as freeing up IT resources and rapidly deploying services. Tech The products that we offer through UKFast Enterprise are centred around performance and availability. Our clients want reassurances that business-critical information is safe and secure, and that websites on our network have the capacity to deliver a great user experience without worrying about delays or downtime. Our tech team is made up of Microsoft, Linux and virtualisation specialists. This knowledge allows us to build scalable private cloud solutions using Hyper-V and VMware, and assist clients with getting the most from their dedicated hardware. With Enterprise clients, we have to be really flexible. For example, we can burst traffic to our public cloud in times of high traffic, creating a hybrid cloud environment. Or we can use CDN solutions to speed up global web performance for companies with a big overseas presence. We see ourselves as pioneers of technology and we're always looking to develop new solutions - a good example is our Webcelerate product, which uses advanced caching technology to allow web servers to do more. This means that at busy periods, your site actually loads even faster, and we've seen several clients make massive improvements to bottom line sales directly as a result of this. Service As Head of Customer Service at UKFast, it's my job to ensure that our clients receive consistent levels of support, timely responses and that someone will be there to pick up the phone if they need us. Enterprise clients get 24 hour support and direct access to the engineers that build their systems, as they are the people who know them inside out. We're extremely passionate about delivering world class service, which starts by internally developing better ways of doing things and ends with creating raving fans - clients that are happy to tell the world about their UKFast experience. Account Management Technology is always changing and shaping the way that we do business. As an Enterprise account manager, I work with clients to make sure that their solution still meets the needs of their business and proactively monitor the account so that we are ready to deal with any issues before they become a problem. I make sure they are aware of new technologies like private cloud and offer advice to help plan for growth. Our client base is really diverse, and we have experience in many different industry sectors - from ecommerce brands like Funky Pigeon to media companies like UKTV and global brand names, like Virgin. Our service is really flexible and comes down to the needs of the individual client. Security Security is massively important to us, and our clients. Every client is placed behind a redundant pair of firewalls and we'll always recommend dedicated backup and security protection. We're also ISO 27001 accredited and PCI compliant, which is really important to many of our clients to give them that extra peace of mind. We run our network at 50% capacity, so that our clients know that they have the room to grow. If a website experiences a sudden spike in traffic, we know we're equipped to handle that. Essentially, UKFast Enterprise enables companies of all sizes to benefit from cloud technology and reliable hosting.
Business to business companies must look to monetise e-commerce through social networking in 2010, according to UKFast's latest round table. As Facebook's global audience exceeds the 350 million mark, more and more companies have turned their attention towards social media as an effective way to combat marketing budget cuts. On the flip side, consumers are using social media as a way to demand more from companies with online forums a great source of feedback. Poor connectivity and inferior infrastructures are however making it difficult for online businesses to expand overseas, according to the panel. Despite the 2010 FIFA World Cup highlighting the potential of the South African market, UK e-commerce sites are struggling to take advantage abroad because of disproportionate technology. UKFast hosts discussions with the UK's leading entrepreneurs, asking the question "What are the key drivers for e-commerce in 2010?" The UKFast round tables aim to unite business leaders to share advice and provide a wealth of ideas for other developing companies, like the latest drivers for e-commerce in 2010.
Business to business companies must look to monetise e-commerce through social networking in 2010, according to UKFast's latest round table. As Facebook's global audience exceeds the 350 million mark, more and more companies have turned their attention towards social media as an effective way to combat marketing budget cuts. On the flip side, consumers are using social media as a way to demand more from companies with online forums a great source of feedback. Poor connectivity and inferior infrastructures are however making it difficult for online businesses to expand overseas, according to the panel. Despite the 2010 FIFA World Cup highlighting the potential of the South African market, UK e-commerce sites are struggling to take advantage abroad because of disproportionate technology. UKFast hosts discussions with the UK's leading entrepreneurs, asking the question "What are the key drivers for e-commerce in 2010?" The UKFast round tables aim to unite business leaders to share advice and provide a wealth of ideas for other developing companies, like the latest drivers for e-commerce in 2010.