The National Australia Bank (NAB) is partnering with Pollinate to transform their merchant acquiring offering for Small and Medium Sized Businesses (SMEs) across Australia.

Intellectual Property firm, Mathys & Squire has announced the launch of its Scaleup Quarter, a one-stop microsite resource focused on smaller and growing businesses, including startups, scaleups and SMEs, to harness their passion and energy for innovation and provide crucial IP services that are dynamic and energetic, adding value and supporting businesses as they grow.

With the government furlough scheme ending on 31st October, many people will no doubt be worried about job security. One study by the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex suggested more than 6.5 million jobs could be at risk.

Our latest issue, Women in Tech and Female Founders is just around around the corner, so for our next event, which is now going to be held digitally on Thursday 15th October, we will be donating all profits to the Young Women's Trust a feminist charity set out to help young women. We spoke to Laura Perkins, Director of Fundraising at Young Women's Trust to find out a little more about the organisation. 

Small businesses across the UK are being offered a major new package of support and mentoring, as Small Business Saturday UK launches the UK’s first online roadshow for towns and cities affected by the pandemic.

New data suggests a surge in UK business growth in territories such as Africa and Eastern Europe, with business materials being translated into languages such as Zulu, Afrikaans, Serbian and Macedonian at least 2,000% more than three years ago.

For too long successful lobbying has been the exclusive realm of companies and organisations with deep pockets. That is about to change with the launch of PolicyMogul, which provides free access to political updates, parliamentary proceedings and the wider policy-making environment via a feed, powerful search tools and email alerts.

Israeli blockchain cyber startup, GK8 has announced a partnership with Chainalysis, the blockchain analysis company, to help financial institutions identify high risk activity including terrorism financing, money laundering, scamming, and more.

Small businesses are heralding accountants’ increasingly critical role in keeping them running since COVID-19 arrived, considering them to be among the ‘key workers’ of the post-pandemic economic recovery according to new research.

The Home Office has launched a new campaign to ensure businesses are ready for the introduction of the UK’s new points-based immigration system as free movement ends.

Challenger supplier and Which? Recommended Provider, So Energy, has today topped Citizens Advice’s latest domestic energy supplier rankings with a score of 4.6. The quarterly rankings table (covering Q2 2020) scores suppliers out of 5 for overall customer service and considers complaints data, call waiting times, bill accuracy, bill timeliness and switching timeliness.

UK energy leaders are accelerating change to their employees’ working practices in response to the COVID-19 crisis and this can support the development of the talent and skills needed for the energy transition, a new report published today by POWERful Women reveals.

Worldline has announced a technology partnership with eCommerce payment orchestration innovator, BRIDGE. The partnership will initially focus on integrating the eCommerce payment consolidation and control features of the BRIDGE payment orchestration platform into Worldline’s UK rail eCommerce platform.

Representation Plus has launched its new virtual events platform 'ezy' with the highly successful 'ANTOR Meets the Media' event; a small virtual networking event for over 100 media, 17 exhibitor stands and individual meeting rooms for 1-to-1 meetings and press conferences, the BYO Café for casual chats, the auditorium for welcome speeches and the essential helpdesk.

IriusRisk, the threat modeling platform for Application Security has announced the closing of its $6.7m Series A fundraising. Global cyber investor, Paladin Capital Group led the round, with participation from 360 Capital Partners and existing investors Swanlaab, JME Ventures and Sonae Investment Management.

A new survey conducted by Quin, a pioneering, female-founded, digital health startup, found that 26% of the UK public would rather use health apps than visit a GP or hospital, and that usage of health apps has increased by 37% since the pandemic began.

LawtechUK, the government-backed initiative within Tech Nation, whose aim is to help transform the UK legal sector through technology, has chosen five new members to join its advisory board (known as the LawtechUK Panel).

The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), the lead government agency in charge of industry development, is now on the hunt for innovative, cutting-edge tech solutions and ideas for major organisations in the region. If you're based in Europe, you could be given the chance to pitch and gain access to decision makers of leading Asian organisations like CapitaLand, JG Digital Equity Ventures, Singapore Airlines, Singtel, StarHub, ST Engineering, Olam, Sembcorp, Singapore Post and the Singapore Tourism Board. In order to qualify and enter the pitch event free at the Singapore x Europe Innovation Partnership Forum (SEIPF) on 9-13 Nov 2020 please submit your details via the website here. The deadline for applications is October 2nd 2020.

Oslo Innovation Week, on the behalf of The City of Oslo and Innovation Norway, is proud to announce warm technology startup, No Isolation, as the recipient of the 2020 Oslo Innovation Award. Presented during the final day of Oslo Innovation Week, the Scandinavian city’s annual week-long technology festival, Karen Dolva, Co-Founder and CEO of No Isolation, collected the award from head juror, Per L. Saxegaard, Founder and Executive Chairman of the Business for Peace Foundation.