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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.
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YouTube is bringing shopping through creators deeper into UK retail. Boots, Debenhams, Etsy, M&S, Next, and Wayfair are among the early partners for its Shopping Affiliate programme.
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Ocado has secured a new European automation contract this week. The deal will see its latest fulfilment technology deployed for an unnamed fast-growing national retailer.
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Poor data is delaying major UK strategic projects by months. Ordnance Survey research finds leaders are revisiting decisions as AI increases the premium on trusted information.
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Small business hiring is now more digital and compliance led. First Advantage has launched a self-service screening platform for UK employers managing recruitment risk.
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Public sector AI savings face a harder workforce planning test. Auditors say staffing, skills, and operating models must be understood before efficiency targets can be relied on.
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Council finance systems risk becoming an LGR afterthought today. Access PaySuite research points to payment, income, and legacy IT pressures.