Contactless payments have taken a leap forward during 2020, in part driven by concerns around the potential spread of COVID-19. In the Nordics, the contactless payment ratio has grown from around 57 per cent in early January to 75 per cent of all in-store card payments in late October this year, according to data from Nets, a leading Nordic payment provider.

London-based cryptocurrency firm Koinal reaches agreement with Huobi to integrate its fast checkout system.

Landmark Information has today launched its new Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) management platform - RiskHorizon™ - focused on delivering rich, comprehensive assessments to a broad audience of investors, property asset owners and managers, from private equity and investment houses to corporates and their lawyers. The platform provides thorough and actionable global ESG due diligence of their corporate investments and acquisitions.

Bittrex Global GmbH. announced that 7 new DeFi tokens will be listed this week including:

Marqeta, the global modern card issuing platform, and Uber, the multinational ridesharing pioneer and delivery platform, announced today that the two companies have entered into a strategic global card-issuing partnership. Marqeta is already supporting the global growth of Uber Eats through this new partnership, and will serve as Uber’s card issuing partner for future projects.

Feedzai announced today its new fully packaged Feedzai Solutions that can assess risk for single and cross-channel transactions in real-time.