EY and Innovate Finance announced the launch of a FinTech secondment programme.

ExperienceLab, Serco’s user experience design agency, and Vipera, the specialist digital financial services provider, has today announced a worldwide non-exclusive partnership to collaborate on next generation, mobile centric, user experience design, leveraging each other’s highly complementary offerings in their respective markets.

In today’s hectic business world, it’s never been more important for entrepreneurs to stay on top of their cash flow and ensure they have the financial stability needed to run a business. However, with UK companies owed £41.5 billion in late payments, business leaders are turning to loans to avoid bankruptcy.

A third (30%) of UK adults have admitted to using something personal, such as their date of birth, maiden name or home address to create their password, much of which is easily accessible online. Almost half (44%) said they rarely or never change their online password – further increasing the risk.

Linedata, (NYSE Euronext: LIN) the global solutions provider dedicated to the investment management and credit industries, announces the launch of its digital Linedata Mobil'Ekip solution. With this application, key tasks and information can be managed and accessed from mobile platforms, such as smart phones and tablets. It operates in conjunction with the core Linedata Ekip³⁶⁰ system.

Elliptic, the leading blockchain intelligence company, today announced its Board of Advisors: David Harris, Martine Niejadlik, Richard Brown and Nadav Rosenberg.

Elliptic CEO, Dr. James Smith, said, “We have carefully and thoughtfully selected these advisors, and we are humbled to be working with them. Each advisor is among the very best in the world at their discipline, and each brings a unique strategic perspective to Elliptic.”

British cybersecurity pioneer Solfyre has been selected as a finalist in global startup awards scheme the Tech Trailblazers Awards, with recognition in multiple categories: FinTech Trailblazers, Mobile Trailblazers and the Firestarter Award for early stage startups.

JMC Capital Partners through its portfolio company, CIVIQ Smartscapes, has acquired elevate DIGITAL, located in Chicago, IL.  Elevate DIGITAL is a leading developer of street-level, interactive software technology that engages with people and devices within verticals that include; smart cities, IoT, hospitality, transportation, and entertainment. The elevate DIGITAL platform can be customized to the audience, municipality, attraction and also engaging the consumer through content and services.

 Zapper, the fast growing global data insights platform enabled by mobile payment has partnered with PayPal, the renowned worldwide online payments system. The partnership will provide customers with an alternative payment option to quickly, securely and seamlessly pay their bill using PayPal’s new One Touch™ Technology.

paysafecard, the global market leader in prepaid online payment methods and member of Paysafe Group Plc, has, following comprehensive usability tests, updated its app to meet concrete user requests regarding its visual layout, as well as adding additional services and extended features.

All essential features are displayed on the app’s home screen, allowing users to immediately access those services they need from the entire range available: