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Finastra has appointed Wissam Khoury to lead its Asia Pacific (APAC) business.

Monevo, Europe’s largest lending marketplace and platform, has announced it has partnered with yet another brand seeking to improve their customers’ access to credit, usave.

For the first time, mobile users can open a German bank account with an integrated bitcoin wallet and trading on their smartphone within minutes. Bitwala, Germany’s cryptocurrency flagship, makes this possible with the launch of its new Bitcoin banking app for iOS and Android. What is more, the account opening process is reduced to just a few minutes. It was never safer, easier, and faster to manage Bitcoin.

equensWorldline, a subsidiary of Worldline, European leader in the payments and transactional services industry, announces the early renewal of its service agreement by Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW). Under the agreement, equensWorldline will provide SEPA payment services for LBBW and process more than 1 billion transactions per year.

Ingenico ePayments, the ecommerce division of Ingenico Group (Euronext: FR0000125346 - ING), the global leader in seamless payment, announced that it will provide payment services to YOOZOO Games, the distributor of popular games such as Game of Thrones Winter is Coming and Saint Seiya Awakening: Knights of the Zodiac. Ingenico’s payment systems will support the global gaming company to expand internationally.

The Cryptix AG, a Swiss full-service provider in the blockchain and DLT sector, has completed the acquisition of Blocktrade, a Liechtenstein digital assets exchange. As part of this acquisition, the team of the Vaduz-based company remains with Blocktrade and will be expanded in the coming months. In the future, both companies want to grow the existing structure and features of the digital asset exchange. The acquisition will not affect customers, who can continue to use the services and rely on the high quality and security standards of the platform.

According to research, poor cash flow is responsible for up to 90% of small business failures. Often, a huge contributing factor to this is the vast number of businesses lacking visibility and control of their spending, with Fraedom also finding that almost a third of UK SMEs have a clear picture of business spend at the end of each month but little visibility on a day-to-day basis.

Responding to the rapid and unprecedented decline in cash usage by UK consumers, LINK, the country’s main cash machine network, has announced that funding will be made available to protect free access to cash for every high street in the UK.

From today, should a high street be threatened with the loss of an ATM or Post Office, LINK will step in to ensure that an ATM is made available and paid for with funding from all the UK’s main banks and building societies.