Tag: COVID-19

Research by mobile analytics platform App Annie has discovered mobile FinTech apps outperformed banks by a factor of up to 10.8x during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The UK could be increasing the contactless payments limit from £45 to £100, as one of its first moves away from the European Union.

The number of women at the UK’s five biggest financial companies plummeted by 3% during 2020, posing a serious question to the sector’s diversity pledges.

The UK FinTech community has welcomed Ron Kalifa's review, but stakeholders argue the government must do more to take the sector seriously and protect the nation's position as an industry leader.

To counter the economic effects of Covid-19, Italian and German banks have drawn up a document highlighting ways for financial banks across Europe to mitigate the risk of further loss.

A recent report commissioned by Mobiquity has underlined the key priorities for UK wealth managers at this current time.

The UK’s top financial markets watchdog has found that 27.7 million people in the country have been left in a financially vulnerable state in the coronavirus aftermath.

Klarna's CEO and co-founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski has been diagnosed with the coronavirus and now urges the Swedish government to step up its fight against the pandemic.

Challenger bank Revolut will give its employees the option to work remotely permanently after having asked its staff for its thoughts on the matter.

Irish InsurTech company Blink has teamed up with Allianz Partners to support a major distribution of its travel disruption insurance platform in the UK this month.