On February 20th 2020 the markets began to react to Covid-19, as one country after another was plunged into lockdown. On the 11th March the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a pandemic and by March 23rd the S&P had lost 34% of its value.  

Fast forward twelve months and the trading landscape has changed forever – but not necessarily as a consequence of the virus. Instead, the retail trading revolt of Reddit users has been the true catalyst to change the game entirely. Even more so than a global pandemic. 

SoePay, a FinTech subsidiary of Spectra Technologies Holdings Co. Ltd., today announced the launch of the SoftPOS solution for accepting contactless Visa and Mastercard card payments on any NFC-enabled Android smartphones that will revolutionize the customer experience of small and micro-merchants in Hong Kong.

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CubeLogic, the market leading provider of award-winning enterprise risk and compliance solutions announces the availability of S&P Global Market Intelligence data on its platform.

 Boku Inc., (AIM: BOKU), the world's leading provider of mobile payment and identity solutions and DAZN, the leading global sports streaming platform, today announced the launch of mobile payments for NTT Docomo. For 80 million NTT Docomo subscribers, they can now purchase DAZN subscriptions with just their phone number.

Today Nordic API Gateway further scales its fintech reach in Norway by empowering one of the fastest growing fintech companies Horde. With the open banking collaboration, Horde is making it possible to manage loans and receive better loan opportunities by consolidating credit card debt. Alongside that Horde has launched a social lending platform in which friends and family can lend each other money in a structured way based on open banking payments.

Hudson Fintech, the London-based Capital Markets technology firm, today announced the launch of Trade Hospital. A key component of the Hudson Edge technology platform, Trade Hospital acts as an advanced workflow management service which filters, aggregates and reconciles trade messages before sending optimised submissions to back office systems for confirmation and settlement.

Modularbank, the Estonian-founded next-generation core banking platform, and HAWK:AI, the German-founded money-laundering detection and investigation platform, have today announced a new partnership which sees HAWK:AI’s AML software added as an out-of-the-box integration to Modularbank’s core banking suite. 

Tinkoff Group Holding, Russia's leading provider of online financial and lifestyle services via its Tinkoff ecosystem, today announces its consolidated financial results for the three months and twelve months ended 31 December 2020.