To help businesses meet customer needs and provide greater support for the financially vulnerable, PayPoint is stepping up the benefits for its digital solution, PayByLink. 

The Bitcoin price nears $50,000 and will continue to reach new highs in this first quarter of 2021 – but investors should also expect volatility due to increasing regulatory scrutiny.

This is the warning from Nigel Green, CEO and founder of deVere Group, one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and fintech organizations. 

It comes after the cryptocurrency hit more than $49,700 for the first time in history on Sunday.

The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), the global industry group for exchanges and CCPs, has responded to the EU’s proposals for a Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) for Financial Sectors.

The WFE welcomes the ambitions of the EU Commission in seeking to improve and harmonise operational resilience requirements across the financial ecosystem – especially those purely operating in digital-based environments.

Post Office is expanding its presence in the identity services market with the roll-out of a suite of online and in-branch products in a new partnership with digital identity company Yoti. The rollout includes a free-to use app that will combine customers’ personal data and biometrics to create a secure, reusable ID on their phone, and in-branch services for those customers who do not have access to a smartphone or who prefer face-to-face contact when asked to confirm their identity. 

As of today, more than 106 million coronavirus cases have been reported until now across the world. The staggering numbers are terrifying everyone across the world and new variants of the virus have been identified too. The first variant B.1.1.7 evolved in the UK and studies suggest that this is 70% more lethal for humans than the parent virus. Due to the same reason, many countries are under strict lockdown once again. Travel has been banned for any recreational purposes.

57.18 million of us now make digitally-enabled transactions, bringing the total value of digitally enabled payments annually to a staggering $188.3 billion, this is an increase of 19.7% when compared to 2019.

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