Commenting on UK GDP rising by 0.8% Ian Warwick, Managing Partner at Deepbridge Capital, said: “Today’s data serves as a further reminder that the UK economy is not out of the woods just yet.

• Southeast Asia is the fastest growing region for mobile wallets in the world with 25.5% CAGR and overall growth of 311% in the next five years

Late last month the Bank for International Settlements issued a report which strongly supported the concept of CBDCs as the blockchain-based technological advancement which would change the way the world interacts with money. In the report, the BIS indicates that a Central Bank Digital Currency would offer protections against nefarious activity while still offering benefits in the realm of cross-border payments.

Mail.ru Group paid another reward within the framework of the vulnerability search program with international platform HackerOne: the researcher received $40,000. The total amount that the company paid in bounties under the program exceeded $2 million.

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DealShare, India’s fastest growing social ecommerce startup known for pioneering the community group buying (CGB) model in India, has announced that they have raised $144 Million in their latest funding round. The round was led by Tiger Global and was co-led led by WestBridge Capital, Alpha Wave Incubation (a venture fund backed by ADQ, and managed by Falcon Edge Capital) & Z3Partners with participation from Partners of DST Global, Matrix Partners India, and Alteria Capital.

Cascades Financial Solutions Inc., a PureFacts company, and Flinks announced today a strategic partnership to provide financial services firms with a best-in-class retirement income planning experience. The collaboration will see the integration of Cascades’ decumulation planning engine with Flinks’ financial data aggregation and analytics platform.