Financial Services
New Chief Technology and Operations Officer, Joanne Hannaford is leading ambitious efforts at the bank.
The UK’s fintech sector had a storming 2021, recording deals worth $37.3bn (up from $5.2bn in 2020), the biggest deal globally, and five of the top 10 fintech deals in EMEA, according to KPMG’s Pulse of Fintech report.
Project Hamilton stores funds as opaque 32 byte hashes inside an Unspent funds Hash Set, or UHS
Some of the toughest challenges in IT can emerge around acquisitions. And insurance group Markerstudy has been acquisitive. In 2020, it bought the Co-op’s insurance underwriting business, making it the UK’s sixth largest motor insurance provider. In April 2021, it purchased Brightside Insurance. In January 2022, it acquired