• Partnership means that Status Money will now offer a credit card that automatically invests rewards in cryptocurrency

 Railsbank, the leading global Embedded Finance platform, and Status Money, the New York-based personal finance company, are partnering to launch an industry-leading cashback credit card that automatically invests rewards in cryptocurrency.

The Tech Nation Global Talent Visa reaches a milestone of 4,000 applications 

Diasoft, the software company listed in the TOP100 global fintech vendors by IDC, today announced it has achieved Red Hat Container Certification. The certification confirms that Diasoft’s application container images are built and certified using Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI), assuring customers that container applications are supported on the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

Only 14% of UK Finance departments report a primary focus on cash flow during the COVID-19 pandemic -

New research has shown that just 14% of UK Finance decision-makers focused on cash flow during the most recent Covid-19 lockdown. 

The majority of businesses focussed on cost-cutting exercises and the use of Government support. For example, 41% confirmed they had furloughed accounts payable staff over the past 12 months.

GBT Technologies Inc.

• Fundraise: Rocket Academy raises $1.1m in pre-seed funding from consortium of business angels 
• Demand: Over the past 3 months, demand for their Coding Basics course has increased 10x 
• Growth: Rocket Academy is actively hiring to double its headcount by end 2021 to address global talent shortage of developers, expected to reach 85.2m in 2030 
• Impact: 100% of students who graduate from Rocket Academy bootcamp course secure jobs 

  One-stop-shop platform empowering retailers to modernize trade and accelerate digital adoption

•  Aims to offer host of tech-enabled trade offerings to drive mass acceptance

•  To offer an all-inclusive digital payment hub that ensures easy acceptance across different form factors, simplified for both retailers and customers

•  A store management tool to offer one-click process to take stores online, digital ledger for better credit management and unified platform offering wholesale procurement options

Proficient European P2P investors choose liquidity on the secondary market

According to the investment platform Robo.cash, 62% of European P2P investors support the opportunity of buying loans on the secondary market. The growing demand for this option is primarily driven by experienced customers with sufficient funding.