CoinCorner, one of the UK’s leading Bitcoin exchanges, has recently launched a new service that will reward customers with Bitcoin when they shop online.

The Bitcoin cashback service is the first-of-its-kind to launch in the UK and CoinCorner has partnered with more than 400 top UK retailers, including household names such as Burton, Twinings, Confused.com, Tails.com, Ninja, Royal Doulton, New Era, Morphy Richards and more, to enable customers to earn Bitcoin when they shop online for their everyday products and services.

Finastra, a global financial technology firm headquartered in the UK, has today announced a strategic partnership with Hundsun Technologies (Hundsun) to co-develop and deliver a Chinese version of Finastra’s investment management software, Fusion Invest. The new version of Fusion Invest will be tailored for China’s regulatory and local requirements and be available to customers in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau.

NICE Actimize, a NICE business (Nasdaq: NICE) and leader in Autonomous Financial Crime Management, today announced that two new X-Sight Marketplace partners are offering a range of free tools and services designed to boost operational efficiency of AML investigations during the onslaught of COVID-19 related demands. The two partners focus on automation and screening requirements, leveraging advanced next-generation technologies.

Enterprise Software as a Service (SaaS) vendor, My Digital Accounts, has appointed Nic Scott, former CEO and co-founder of Fairsail, as its chairman with immediate effect.

ITI Capital, the FCA-regulated, UK-based global financial services provider for institutional investors and private clients, today announces it has acquired the client book from SVS Securities, which was placed in Special Administration on 5 August 2019. The vast majority of SVS’s clients will become client of ITI on June 11^th 2020, and they will have access to their money and assets again from as early as mid-July.

Button, the leading mobile commerce technology company, today announced its partnership with Bnext, the biggest mobile-first neobank of Spain. Starting today, Bnext users can seamlessly shop and save money with the largest brands including AliExpress, Groupon, and Black Limba, powered by Button’s technology.

Actions speak louder than words. If there is any silver lining to the Covid-19 pandemic, it would be that uncertainty and volatility reveals truth about how financial technology firms function and respond in turbulent waters. Our technologies are built to handle extreme volatility, volumes, and complex scenarios – that’s what we do and have demonstrated though this crisis. FlexTrade’s client services teams are on call 24/7 to jump in to assist our clients when they are in need – and we were fully prepared to jump into action.

As the world comes to understand blockchain technology better, we’re beginning to see it applied in more and more places. It’s affecting business-to-business transactions across borders, impacting commodity trades, and changing banking services. And just recently, we learned that blockchain is easing further into supply chains, which could impact innumerable industries worldwide.