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UK banks are backing a new domestic payments infrastructure company. The Payments Delivery Company has opened an equity raise reported to target around £50m from banks and other eligible industry participants.
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Digital proof of age is now valid for alcohol sales. Licensed businesses in England and Wales can optionally accept certified smartphone-based verification alongside established physical identity checks.
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Land Registry is adding identifiers to improve property data matching. UPRNs and INSPIRE IDs will accompany new Price Paid Data releases, giving lenders, developers, property platforms, and researchers more reliable links between datasets.
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Lee Rorison built Seriös Group to rethink enterprise data delivery. His model centres on faster outcomes, stronger foundations, and scaling a Newcastle consultancy around Seriös ONE.
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Land Registry and Ordnance Survey are deepening property-data integration nationwide. Their three-year agreement will connect ownership and geospatial information more closely across a property market worth trillions of pounds.
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Project Gigabit has expanded rural broadband availability across northern England. The £127m Quickline programme now reaches 60,000 homes and businesses while supporting apprenticeships and technical skills.
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Open banking is becoming deeper financial infrastructure. The UK has passed one billion open banking payments and 100 billion API calls, strengthening its role in payments, cash flow tools, and connected finance.
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Prediction markets are colliding with UK gambling and finance rules. Regulators are examining whether event-based trading platforms should be treated as betting, financial products, or both.
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Marketers remain trapped between execution pressure and strategic ambition today. Optimizely research finds 74% of UK marketers say the industry is stuck in survival mode.
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Denodo is expanding its data layer for agentic AI deployment. Platform 9.5 expands knowledge graphs, metric views, assistant reasoning, and governed connectivity across enterprise data estates.