Pam Maynard named Black British Business Person of the Year
Pamela “Pam” Maynard, Microsoft’s Chief AI Transformation Officer for Customer and Partner Solutions, has been named Black British Business Person of the Year, at the Black British Business Awards (BBBA) 2024. Ms Maynard received her award from Cecil Peters, Head of Diversity and Inclusion at JPMorganChase, at a ceremony held at the InterContinental, Park Lane. Ms […]
Palo Alto Networks releases AI security Copilots
Palo Alto Networks has announced it will begin rolling out its Copilots for the Strata, Prisma Cloud and Cortex platforms, as it seeks to leverage AI to reduce friction in security workflows. Customers have been trialling the new AI feature since May. Leveraging AI as part of cybersecurity defense has already become quite commonplace, helping […]
obconnect wins major Kiwi banking deal
UK fintech, obconnect has won a significant new contract having been selected by the New Zealand Banking Association (NZBA) to deliver Confirmation of Payee (CoP) technology. The deal will see obconnect deliver CoP to banks in New Zealand from November 2024. End-user clients will include ANZ, Bank of China, The Co-operative Bank, ICBC, Rabobank, TSB, […]
EY lands Civil Service Jobs Platform deal
EY has been selected by Cabinet Office as the provider for the Civil Service Jobs digital platform. The five-year contract, which also contains provisions for two optional twelve-month extensions, is worth up to £18.2m and encompasses both development and operational services. Civil Service Jobs is the core platform of the Government Recruitment Service (GRS). It […]
Solaris sunsets former Contis operations
Leading German Banking-as-a-Service provider, Solaris is to lay off the majority of the workforce of its UK subsidiary, Contis. As part of a major restructuring of the company, in total Solaris is planning to lay off one third of its workforce, with most of these job losses coming at Contis. The transformation programme will see Solaris […]
CloudCoCo to sell managed services business for £9.2m
Managed Service Provider (MSP) and Value-Added Reseller (VAR), announced this morning that it has agreed to sell its IT managed services business to Gateshead-headquartered Aspire Technology Solutions, for up to c.£9.2m. Proceeds from the sale are to be used to settle debt, and will leave the company with some £950k in working capital, as it looks […]
*NEW RESEARCH* Education Suppliers, Trends, and Forecasts 2024
TechMarketView’s latest UK Education Software and IT Services (SITS) Suppliers, Trends, and Forecasts report is now available. It is the second of six subsector reports, after last month’s Central Government Health report and our UK Public Sector Software and IT Services Suppliers Trends, and Forecasts report, published in August. It will be followed in the coming weeks by subsector reports for […]
*UKHotViewsExtra* £6.3bn investment in UK data centres to power AI innovation
The UK government has announced £6.3bn of foreign investment into UK Data centre infrastructure, as part of a total £63bn in private investment committed at the International Investment Summit. The new data centre investment will provide the UK with more computing power and data storage, so that Britain has the necessary infrastructure to train and deploy […]
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Christofi to lead PwC’s Financial Services AI push
Lilia Christofi, formerly Microsoft’s Head of Banking in EMEA, has joined advisory specialist, PwC, as a Partner, to lead the firm’s EMEA Financial Services Data and AI Consulting team. Lilia (pictured), who originally has a background as a Solution/Data Architect, was based in Sydney, Australia between 2015 and 2021 where she worked for both PwC […]