Openpay, the UK’s latest next-generation, interest-free payment solution, has found that due to the pandemic, Brits now shun the payday treat - with nearly half (46%) now waiting until the end of the month to treat themselves after assessing finances. Almost two fifths (38%) said that the pandemic had permanently changed their outlook on spending.

A panel of industry experts has selected Banking Circle’s SME lending initiative, delivered by Cardstream, as winner of the 2020 Tech Ascension FinTech Award for Most Innovative FinTech Solution.

Volante Technologies Inc., a leading provider of payments and financial messaging solutions in the cloud, today announced that 

Avelacom, the high-performance global connectivity and IT infrastructure provider for the financial services industry, is announcing the launch of a new Chicago <> Tokyo back-up route, supporting efforts to ensure robust trading systems among banks, exchanges and trading firms as they prepare for expected volatility in light of the upcoming US election.

Panxora Digital Ventures, part of the Panxora Group today launched its hybrid seed funding solution to stimulate the stagnant capital market for new blockchain token projects.

TransferGo, one of the world’s fastest growing money transfer companies, today partners with Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, to bring real-time international money transfers to consumers’ bank cards. This service is currently live in 32 markets, including Germany, Spain, Romania, Poland, Ukraine and Turkey and has the potential to expand to a total of 178 countries in the future with additions such as the UK, Italy and Nigeria.
 

The Emerging Payments Association (EPA), which promotes collaboration and innovation across payments, has today published a paper containing the community’s responses to HM Treasury's Payments Landscape Review: Call for Evidence, detailing recommendations on how to ensure the UK’s payments industry becomes progressive, world-leading and secure, and effective at serving the needs of everyone who pays and gets paid.

LUNU Solutions, the Berlin-based tech startup closing the gap between cryptocurrencies and the real world, announced their support for TBA21–Academy and its long-term commitment to fostering a deeper understanding of the ocean through the lens of art, science, and technology. Lunu becomes an official supporter of the Academy’s “Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation” exhibition synthesizing three years of intersectional research and its results, opening from August 27–November 29 at Ocean Space in the Chiesa di San Lorenzo in Venice and at 

83% of UK SMEs believe it’s vital to commercialise IP, but there are too many barriers hindering these efforts, according to new research by R&D and IP specialists, GovGrant. From the responses of SME decision-makers across seven different sectors, the findings show 26% believe the lack of opportunity to patent and scope to innovate is to blame, while 21% claim it’s insufficiency of expertise.

Genesis, the global financial markets software firm, has appointed sales and product strategist, Martin Sreba as Global Head of Strategic Accounts.