Hewlett Packard’s effective declaration of war on Autonomy, a company it spent over $10bn acquiring last year, is a dramatic, but by no means novel, development in the context of the tech giant’s chequered recent history.

AIM-listed Monitise has become a market leader in the highly competitive world of mobile banking and payments. Co-founder Alastair Lukies reflects on the challenges and rewards of taking his company global.