Tag: COVID-19

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.

Stock-trading app Robinhood went down for some users during Wednesday amidst the trading chaos surrounding GameStop, according to a Motherboard report.

The measures put in place to ensure regulated businesses have enough time to publish audited financial reports are still valid, remind two UK regulators.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore's deputy managing director is confident in Asian markets' ability to recover past the pandemic, but warns that there are still challenges ahead.

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that policyholders should have their coronavirus losses covered by insurers and the InsurTech industry is welcoming the decision.

Almost 4,000 regulated firms in the UK were at risk of failing in October and 59% of companies believe Covid-19 will have an adverse effect on their business, according to research from a City watchdog.

Lithuanian identity verification company Ondato has scored $2m in seed capital to fuel its continued European growth, which has been powered by Covid-19.

FinTech startup Object Astra has leveraged the Covid-19 crisis by launching a new sweat equity platform that can tap into the skills from professionals furloughed due to the pandemic.