Tag: the UK

Wirex, a crypto and payments ecosystem, has expanded its Wirex Credit program to new regions and developed additional features.

Voting in the UK’s Conservative Party leadership election has been delayed after government cyber experts raised concerns over potential hacking of members’ ballots.

The UK Government has introduced legislation to ‘enhance the competitiveness of the UK financial services sector’ to Parliament.

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed it is set to open an office in the UK to ‘boost international cooperation and collaboration’. 

Changes to UK internet safety laws will mean social media platforms will have to proactively look and remove disinformation harmful to the UK from foreign state actors.

Openpay, an Aussie buy now, pay later (BNPL) company, has ended operations in the US market and laid off the majority of its staff in the country, Reuters has claimed.

The UK government has revealed it is planning to scale back its requirements for gathering data from both the senders and recipients of crypto sent to unhosted wallets.

With the rise of cryptocurrencies showing no signs of slowing down, the growth of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) appears to be another trend on the ascendancy. Will 2022 prove to be a red-letter year for CBDC adoption?

The upgrading of the UK’s payments infrastructure and real-time payments adoption has been forecasted to boost the UK economy by $3.8bn by 2026, research has found.  

The UK government has unveiled its plans to make the country a global centre for cryptoasset technology.