The conversation around Bitcoin’s negative environmental impact isn’t new, but as its value soars past $64,000 (as of 14th April), and, most importantly, its trading volumes are at a record high, it is becoming harder to ignore.

According to research published by cryptocurrency economist Alex De Vries, Bitcoin's energy use this year will rival that of all cloud-computing data centres globally. 

SimplyBiz Mortgages has added new lender MPowered Mortgages to its lender panel.

MPowered Mortgages, brought to you by MQube, offers lending for buy-to-let individual, limited company and portfolio landlords, now available to members of SimplyBiz Mortgages.

Having built a strong initial reputation in the rapidly growing open banking space of Northern Europe, Nordic API Gateway is announcing that its fully rebranding to Aiia to reflect the company’s pan-European focus of delivering open banking ‘that simply works’. 

ikigai, the new premium fintech bringing self-care to personal finance, today announced it has extended its relationship with WealthKernel, choosing them as custodian to safeguard the financial assets of its clients in line with the current permissions of the FCA. Prior to selecting WealthKernel as its custodian, ikigai’s clients’ assets were held by investment platform, Third Financial. 

Digital payments provider, Paydoo, has partnered with technology company Tribe Payments to provide processing, gateway and POS services across the UK and Europe. Under Tribe’s acquirer processing programme, Paydoo will gain instant access to the latest technology to manage their merchants’ success and support ongoing growth.

Modulr, a leading Payments-as-a-Service applications programming interface (API) platform, has secured new investment from FIS Ventures, the corporate venture arm of global financial technology leader FIS, for an undisclosed amount.

FIS plans to leverage Modulr’s API-based payments infrastructure to facilitate and automate realtime, business-to-business, payments in the U.K. and Europe as part of FIS’ broader real-time payments strategy.

CloudMargin, creator of the world’s first and only collateral and margin management solution native to the cloud, today announced the appointment of industry professional Helen Nicol to the role of Senior Vice President, Head of Product. Nicol has more than 20 years of experience in collateral management, financial markets and law, including senior positions at two global banks.

Specialist RegTech provider Shield today announces the addition of further security layers which ensure its complete communications compliance lifecycle platform is one of the most secure RegTech solutions on the market. The latest version of the Shield platform has been enhanced specifically to address the additional needs of remote working in the new compliance normal.

Digital payments expert PayPoint has completed the acquisition of RSM 2000 Ltd, a leading provider of innovative digital payment services. The move marks a further step change in PayPoint’s strategic delivery; RSM 2000 boasts a significant portfolio of clients across sectors such as charities, not-for-profit organisations and SMEs in the UK, organisations which will bolster PayPoint’s market reach.

Simplilearn, the world's number one Online Bootcamp for digital economy skills training, today announced a collaboration with KPMG in India to offer postgraduate programs in the field of digital business transformation & process excellence, starting with