Finastra has established a new office space at Cyberport in Hong Kong as part of an evolution of its workplace strategy. This strategic move will place Finastra at the heart of Hong Kong’s fintech community, enabling it to build relationships with new and existing partners and facilitating innovative co-creation. 

Zumo, Scotland’s cryptocurrency wallet and payments platform, has grown its employee numbers again with the addition of four female appointments in key roles and a total of seven new team members, taking the team to 24 with recruiting still open for another five new roles. The most recent appointments come shortly after Zumo’s £1.6m Seedrs crowdfund, and the launch of their app’s cryptocurrency exchange functionality.

iwoca, one of Europe’s largest small business lenders, announces that its invoice payments product – iwocaPay – will be free throughout the UK’s second national lockdown to support small businesses impacted by coronavirus.1

According to the analysts of the international financial group UnaFinancial, neobanks in the Philippines will serve 51.4 million customers by 2025. At the same time, their cumulative loan portfolio will amount to $15 billion and the number of active deposit accounts will reach 10 million.

McAfee Corp. (Nasdaq: MCFE), the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, released its McAfee Labs Threats Report: November 2020, examining cybercriminal activity related to malware and the evolution of cyber threats in Q2 2020. During this period, McAfee saw an average of 419 new threats per minute as overall new malware samples grew by 11.5%.

Dosh, the fastest-growing cash back platform that connects thousands of brands and retailers to millions of consumers, announced the expansion of its integration of Button, the leading mobile commerce technology company, on its platform. By integrating Button’s leading mobile commerce capabilities into Dosh’s SDK, financial services companies using Dosh to power their rewards programs will be able to provide consumers with instant cash back rewards for online, in-store, and mobile purchases.

SteelEye, the compliance technology and data analytics firm, has won the Best Market Surveillance Platform in the 2020 WatersTechnology Buy-Side Technology Awards.

The award reflects the flexibility of SteelEye’s surveillance platform, which enables firms to strengthen their market abuse detection, improve their oversight and continuously demonstrate compliance across all asset classes.