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UK banks face rising challenges from the Dark Economy
23 June 2025
New research underscores the escalating difficulty UK banks encounter in combating financial crime, with criminal enterprises becoming increasingly adept at laundering money and evading detection.
A survey of 800 financial crime professionals across 17 countries, published in BioCatch’s ‘Dark Economy Survey,’ reveals that 65% of UK fraud and compliance leaders believe criminals are now more skilled at laundering illicit funds than banks are at catching them.
Find out more Streetwave survey reveals mixed mobile coverage inside London’s St Mary’s Hospital
20 June 2025
Network analyst firm Streetwave has released findings from a recent survey assessing the signal coverage and data performance of the UK’s leading mobile networks — EE, Three UK, Vodafone, and O2 — within St Mary’s Hospital in London.
Conducted on June 17, 2025, the survey focused on the hospital’s public walkways, specifically around the QEQM Building, with data collected via portable equipment at 12:33 pm. While the results are anecdotal due to the limited survey scope, they provide a useful snapshot of indoor mobile network performance in a critical public healthcare setting.
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TCCA appoints new TETRA interoperability certification partner
19 June 2025
TCCA’s world-leading TETRA Interoperability (IOP) testing and certification process underpins the ongoing success of the TETRA standard, and the independence of the process ensures the ongoing strength of the market. TCCA is pleased to announce the appointment of DEKRA, the world's largest independent, non-listed expert organisation in the field of standards-based testing, inspection and certification, as the new TETRA Certification Body that will oversee the IOP testing process and issue the certificates.
Find out more National Security Review to include a wider array of categories
18 June 2025
The UK government is reportedly planning to broaden the scope of its upcoming National Security Review (NSR), set to be published next week, to include a wider array of spending categories.
According to The Telegraph, this expanded definition would encompass not only traditional defense elements like a potential third runway at Heathrow Airport but also critical infrastructure such as food prices and rural broadband initiatives — including schemes like the £5 billion Project Gigabit.
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