| Bank-FinTech Collaboration |
| For FinTech, The Age Of Big Bank Collaboration? No more enemies, and more than frenemies. Big banks may be embracing partnerships with FinTechs. And elsewhere, a few deals cemented collaborative efforts between tech upstarts and traditional players. |
| The UK's Damning Carillion Report: The Spark For Change, Or An Unanswered Call? U.K. members of Parliament released a scathing report into the collapse of mega-government contractor Carillion, blaming its demise on a mix of supplier mistreatment, corporate greed and lack of adequate oversight from auditors. It was a call for action on late vendor payments and uncompetitive accountancy firms, but with officials having raised these problems in the past, it's unclear whether it will be the spark needed to ignite change. |
| | SMBs | | Finding The Sweet Spot Of Small Business Cloud Adoption Small businesses struggle to overcome complacency and step into the cloud, but when they finally decide to make the leap, their first target, say DexYP and non-profit-run Tech Adoption Index, is accounting software. Yet when SMBs embrace SaaS, they risk wasting billions of dollars on unused, abandoned solutions. Tech Adoption Index project lead Charles Laughlin explains how to land in the sweet spot of small businesses' digital transformation. |
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