IT infrastructure services provider Kyndryl and Legal & General (L&G), leading financial services group and major global investor, have announced they will extend their partnership to accelerate L&Gs technology transformation. In an announcement, L&G said it had engaged Kyndryl to transition the hosting of its IT systems to a new data centre, reducing technical debt, simplifying architecture, accelerating cloud transformation, and consuming services in a more carbon-efficient way. The new seven-year agreement will enable L&G to scale its operations to support its growth ambitions, and gain greater technical and commercial flexibility

At 22 Rue Chapon, in Paris's ever-trendy third arrondissement, within a converted 18th-century mansion surrounding a cobbled, vine-covered courtyard, researchers from Meta and OpenAI are building the next generation of artificial intelligence. These machine learning specialists cut their teeth at the perhaps less picturesque offices of Silicon Valleys most powerful Big Tech companies, and theyve now flown the nest to work on their own startups

BEFORE the pandemic ushered in a widespread adoption of financial technology (fintech), it was the norm to dedicate time and effort to banking, payment processing and filing taxes.