Weekly Headline Roundup: 14-03-2025

Headline Update 14-03-2025 :

-> AI, Machine Learning, and RPA in Debt Collection and Credit Management | by Med Mahdi Maarouf | Mar, 2025

-> AI heralds a new era for debt collection and credit management – IT News Africa

-> still a central focus for the FCA and firms must do more — Plain Numbers

-> Barclays set to pay out millions in customer compensation after IT outage

-> Consumer credit borrowing rises to £1.7bn

-> 5.7m struggling to keep up with credit card repayments

-> FCA considering motor finance compensation scheme

-> Payment Systems Regulator to be merged into FCA

-> Mistral, Europe’s biggest AI startup, is blowing hot

-> The behaviour that annoys colleagues more than any other

-> From chatbots to intelligent toys: How AI is booming in China

-> Exploring Synthetic Data Validation – privacy, utility and fidelity

-> Can synthetic data enable data sharing in financial services?

-> Research Note: Review of Maximal Extractable Value and Blockchain Oracles