Last month I asked where is the national payments vision? After last night’s Mansion House meeting in London with the UK Chancellor, it has finally been released. So, what’s in the plan? First, there are two regulators involved in payments: the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR). The consultation discovered that the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group swung to a ¥1.2tn ($7.8bn) profit in its latest quarter, driven by a string of successful initial public offerings in India and better tech valuations. The company’s results easily beat analysts’ … Read more
Two weeks ago, I asked where the UK Payments Vision is. It should have been delivered this year, and yet there is still no sign of it. Having said that, the Bank of England did start to build a view. In late July 2024, the Bank of England launched a Discussion Paper on Innovation in money … Read more
A year ago, a government commissioned report in the UK asked for a National Payments Vision and Strategy, or NPVS for short. Looking into this a year later, there does not seem to be much action. The report was produced by Joe Garner, founder of a start-up in the dot.com boom, a director at the … Read more
Sep 13, 2024Ravie LakshmananDigital Actuality / Vulnerability Particulars have emerged a few now-patched safety flaw impacting Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional blended actuality headset that, if efficiently exploited, may permit malicious attackers to deduce knowledge entered on the machine’s digital keyboard. The assault, dubbed GAZEploit, has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-40865. “A novel assault … Read more