As Mastercard reveal that 66 per cent of all transactions across the UK are now contactless, new research released today identifies consumer habits and viewpoints that mean this is a consumer change that will stand the test of time.

In the UK contactless adoption was already high and Mastercard has recently worked with the industry to enable the limit for contactless payments to increase from £30 to £45 to help people benefit from the fastest and simplest way to pay.

Meniga, a leading provider of digital banking technology for the world’s largest banks, has closed a €8.5m strategic investment led by customers Groupe BPCE, the second-largest banking group in France and lead investor in this round, Portugal’s Grupo Crédito Agrícola and long-standing strategic partner UniCredit. Other participants in the round include current institutional investors Velocity Capital, Industrifonden & Frumtak Ventures.

The Stellar Development Foundation ("SDF") has made a strategic investment of $550,000 by way of convertible loan notes. This investment marks the third investment made by SDF through its Enterprise Fund and will support SatoshiPay to continue to develop its B2B solution for commercial, cross-border payments and its digital wallets. SatoshiPay was one of the first businesses to use Stellar commercially and has, to date, processed €650,000 in payments from over 200,000 accounts.

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today announced that Banco Itaú (Suisse) SA and Banco Itaú International, affiliates belonging to one of the world’s largest private bank groups, Itaú Unibanco Holding SA (Itaú), have extended their relationship with Temenos  to rapidly deploy Temenos Infinity Wealth and Temenos Transact on Temenos SaaS.

Maas Global, the leading Mobility as a Service provider, has partnered with Enfuce – Finland’s largest fintech startup – to launch a card payment offering in Whim, MaaS Global’s all-inclusive mobility app. The partnership enables MaaS Global to issue Mastercard prepaid cards securely, and expand its offering to new markets.

Today Revolut, the Financial Super App with over 10 million customers in the U.K and Europe, reveals figures outlining how the cryptocurrency market has changed on a week by week basis during the lockdown period.

Volksbank Bielefeld-Gütersloh is expanding its successful cooperations with Fintechs from the German start-up scene. The cooperative bank is now the first regional institute to cooperate with the Berlin company Penta. The customers of the digital platform for business banking are primarily small and medium-sized enterprises, some of them from the East Westphalia-Lippe region. The aim of the cooperation is to provide them with urgently needed liquidity support during the Corona crisis.

Findr has launched operations in London with the vision of becoming the leading global technology platform for automating and accelerating the creation of commercial partnerships. The company will initially focus on the UK fintech market – the second largest in the world.