Toluna’s ‘Understanding the 2020 Consumer’ Global Barometer Study is a bi-weekly index that taps into a community panel of 30+ million members providing accurate and timely information on the world’s current perceptions. The latest research surveyed 1,093 respondents in the UK.

KEY FINDINGS

The Coronavirus pandemic has now lasted 8 months, and our financial health is certainly suffering. Out of those surveyed:

JCB International Co., Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., today reveals substantial growth of JCB Contactless usage by cardmembers and adoption by retail partners.

Leading payments issuer processor, Global Processing Services (GPS), has been selected by the Department for International Trade (DIT) to become a London Export Champion. GPS joins a prestigious cohort of Export Champions who operate across various sectors, ranging from fintech to sustainable transportation, innovative food and drink products, to events management.

The financial services sector is experiencing significant commercial disruption coupled with rapid innovation as established institutions strive to become more agile and meet evolving customer demand. As a result, financial services organisations are undergoing rapid digital transformation to meet changing customer needs and preferences, and to compete with a new generation of digital-native competitors.

Envoy has partnered with leading trade digitalisation technology provider Bolero International to use Bolero’s electronic bill of lading (eBL)  as-a-service in its highly-advanced digital trade platform built on R3’s Corda.

Envoy employs blockchain technologies to bring significant efficiencies to global supply chain and trade finance – while injecting vital and once-unobtainable liquidity into the system by decentralising finance (DeFi) and smart contract controlled escrow on R3’s corda.

According to WTO experts, platforms built on decentralized technologies can help world trade not only overcome the current crisis, but also accelerate market development  while helping us  better prepare for and manage the inevitable crises of the future. A big part of helping make that happen through  2020 and beyond is  blockchain.

Beyond Analysis, the leader in GlobalTech, AI & Machine Learning, announces the launch of its sister company Beyond AML; which has been built to revolutionise the regulated sector. Beyond AML deploys the latest in AI technology and synthetic data techniques, to build insights into client & transaction activities and behaviours to fix and optimise end-to-end AML processes.