With more than 2 million customers, Starling is growing fast. The campaign showcases Starlingʼs award-winning app to the UKʼs 2 million online banking users and 3.2 million self-employed workers.

Starling is the leading digital bank, aiming to make banking easier, fairer and more human than banks of the past. Ekstasy wanted to shine a light on the customer centric humanity that is at the core of it all. In the ad, they have focused on Starling's application process. Showing it off in all itʼs speedy do-it-just-aboutanywhere glory.

Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) has become an increasingly vital factor for investors in making their decisions and it is becoming increasingly mainstream. The days of small dedicated funds or bundling ESG in with impact finance are long gone and the data supports this. One study found that ESG funds captured $51.1 billion of new money in 2020 – more than double the previous year. 

David Jones, Chief Market Strategist at European investment trading platform Capital.com, said: "As Wednesday saw the England football team entering territory uncharted for the past 55 years, the US stock market was doing the same thing, although on a somewhat less spectacular scale. Wednesday was the ninth day on the trot that the broader S&P 500, an index of the stocks of 500 leading companies in the US economy, hit fresh all-time highs. 

Multi-award winning provider of business applications and cloud services, Codestone, poised for growth with funding from specialist lender Shawbrook.

Headquartered in Poole, Dorset, with offices in London and Cheshire, the technology implementation and services business was founded in 1997 by Jeremy Bucknell, CEO, and Dan Hobson, CCO.

EasyEuro announced today the launch of its digital Wallet, called OuiTrust. OuiTrust aims to serve millions of European SMEs, traders and freelancers bringing them new levels of payment efficiency to global trade.

The EU is one of the world's largest trading block, and SMEs are the backbone of the trade-driven EU economy, accounting for 99.8% of numbers of enterprises.

Softline, the global leading digital transformation and cybersecurity solutions and services provider, announces today that it´s been recognized in four countries with the Microsoft 2021 Partner of the Year Award.

 The Mauritius Commercial Bank Ltd (MCB) (www.MCB.mu) is adopting MITECH's system TRAC (Trade Risk Active Control) to support a continuous and significant growth in its Commodity Trade Finance (CTF) business. TRAC is a Trade Risk and Collateral Management system supporting Structured Trade Commodity Finance.

Hudson Fintech, the London-based Capital Markets technology firm, has partnered with 1066NOW, an Oracle Partner, to make the Hudson Edge platform available to financial institutions using Oracle’s suite of products.

Commenting on UK GDP rising by 0.8% Ian Warwick, Managing Partner at Deepbridge Capital, said: “Today’s data serves as a further reminder that the UK economy is not out of the woods just yet.

• Southeast Asia is the fastest growing region for mobile wallets in the world with 25.5% CAGR and overall growth of 311% in the next five years