Successful year supports IDnow’s journey towards becoming the European leader in identity verification and authentication

Bybit, one of the world's fastest-growing cryptocurrency exchanges, will soon release its USDC perpetual contracts. The new product will allow users to trade using their USDC balance on Bybit's derivatives exchange.

Bybit's new USDC perpetual contract will first open to whitelisted traders, allowing them to use USDC as collateral and place long or short contracts with up to 100x leverage and no expiration date.

Challenges for digital merchants emanating from the pandemic, such as restrictions to movement, continue to ease as we move further into 2022. Within a context of economy recovery and digital acceleration there are five significant trends which we believe are most likely to affect online retailers this year, namely: innovation, consumer behaviour, cross border payments, competition and regulations.

Technological innovations

- Accounts Payable activity for the fashion brand now only takes 10-15% of the finance team’s time -

Coinbase, the world-leading cryptocurrency exchange, today announces support for Ledger hardware wallets in its Wallet extension. The move provides an added layer of security to users of the service and further reinforces the self-custody experience for Coinbase customers. 

• Rory Maclean joins from fundraising platform Givergy and will lead on expansion of programme enabling charities to increase donor base
• Currensea’s ‘powered-by’ charity branded card programme allows cardholders to roundup UK spending and convert savings made on overseas foreign exchange charges into charitable donations
• Currensea’s money-saving card can also be used as part of an employee benefit package by corporate partners

1. Please tell us a little about Bdeo’s history and explain what is the current business.

Having both spent more than a decade working in the insurance sector, my co-founder Manuel Moreno and I spotted an opportunity to help insurance providers manage claims workloads. We realized that approximately 70% of claims are only minor claims that can be easily assessed with technology and without a physical person present.

1. Please tell us a little about ViewTrade Holding Corp's history.

In 1999, ViewTrade Securities, which is now a subsidiary of ViewTrade Holding Corp., was founded to provide turnkey solutions to meet the technology, information and brokerage needs of brokerage firms and banks worldwide. A few short years later, to expand on that success and provide more solutions for our clients, we invested in our fintech subsidiary Orbis Systems.

Seasoned telecoms HR specialist to support company’s strategy and growth

Colt Technology Services has appointed Catherine Leaver as its new Chief People Officer, with immediate effect.

A seasoned telecoms industry HR executive, Leaver comes to Colt from Telefónica Group, where she has spent the last 16 years in senior HR leadership roles, latterly as HR Director and member of the Executive Team at Telefónica UK - O2.

The new platform combines Deep & Dark Web Monitoring with Evidence Creation, Digital Risk Protection and Threat Intelligence for exceptional visibility into dark web risks