Productivity stories - Page 8

European B2B buyers increasingly value seamless invoicing, onboarding and payment experience over price when choosing repeat suppliers.

Origin secures USD $30 million to scale its AI-driven platform simplifying fragmented global employee benefits for large multinationals.

OFX appoints former PayPal Australia marketer Liz Lord as chief marketing officer to spearhead its shift beyond cross-border payments.

SUSE expands Rancher Prime with AI agents and deeper virtualisation, unifying VM and container management to streamline modern workloads.

Major UK and US professional services firms are shelving AI projects as skill shortages bite, exposing a gap between tech spend and staff readiness.

In-house legal teams see themselves driving strategy, but a new report shows most C-suite leaders barely recognise their contribution.

Nasdaq links Calypso and Trade Surveillance to Talos to streamline tokenised collateral, uniting risk and compliance across on- and off-chain assets.

Cloudinary unveils AI-driven image moderation to enforce brand visual guidelines at scale, auto-flagging off-brand logos, colours and quality.

UK legal professionals emerge as global AI leaders, with 62% regular users and strong training seen as key to boosting profitability.

iD Mobile's self-service app has surged past two million registered users as more of its 2.5 million subscribers switch to digital support.

Managing 600+ SonicWall firewalls, Sourcepass turns routine upgrades into a strategic weapon for security, efficiency and client trust.

Energy and chemicals groups target 80% autonomous operations by 2030 as AI-led automation accelerates amid costs, labour gaps and demand.

OpenAI selects Brex to run global spend and finance operations, as automation tools vie to serve the fast-growing AI sector's complex needs.

Open banking has swiftly evolved from a regulatory fix into core UK infrastructure, transforming payments, lending and everyday money management.

IBM will triple US entry-level hiring in 2026, redesigning junior roles around AI oversight and human judgement despite automation pressures.

WorkFusion's AI agent Tara has been named AML Solution of the Year by FinTech Breakthrough for streamlining sanctions screening workloads.

Firms are freezing hiring on the promise of AI gains, despite scant proof of returns and patchy training in how to use the technology.

AI now underpins day-to-day transport planning for most European shippers, with just 3% yet to deploy it, Descartes survey finds.

European fintech is maturing as G+D's Sofiane Chouane charts a future shaped by stricter regulation, AI, and bank-startup partnerships.

NIIT MTS secures a sixteenth straight spot on Training Industry's Top 20 custom content developers list for 2026, citing AI-led design.