FCA research reveals 1.1 million spike in crypto asset buyers and many were convinced...
An estimated 2.6 million UK consumers have bought cryptoassets at some point, new research from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) reveals.
Cybersecurity platform Cynet closes its Series B+ on $18m coming two years after its...
Cynet, an autonomous breach protection platform, has closed its Series B+ round on $18m.
Why Si Consult decided to rebrand into SecurityHQ
Cybersecurity company Si Consult has rebranded itself to be called SecurityHQ.
Challenger bank Knab taps facial biometrics company iProov for its customer authentication services
Dutch online bank Knab prides itself on supplying a human service backed by the latest technology. To that end, it has just teamed up with biometrics company iProov.
BIS Innovation Hub to launch four new centres in Toronto, London, Paris and Stockholm
The Board of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is going to open four more BIS Innovation Hub centres across North America and Europe.
Hunters collects $15m in Series A round
Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity company Hunters has bagged $15m in a Series A funding round from Microsoft’s M12 and U.S. Venture Partners.
The state of cybersecurity in the remote workforce
Over the past few months, the world has had to get used to a new normal. Offices are now largely ghost towns and employees have been settling into a working-from-home lifestyle.
Zimbabwe bans mobile payments over accusations of “economic sabotage”
Digital payments and trading on the stock exchange has been suspended in Zimbabwe in response to what President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government called “criminality and economic sabotage," Reuters reported.
Pockit accounts are back in service after FCA lifts Wirecard restrictions
Neobank Pockit was one of the FinTech startups that had to halt its services after the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) froze all of Wirecard's regulated activities, but now it is back in business.
FCA allows Wirecard to resume operational activities
Last week the UK's top financial markets watchdog ordered Wirecard to freeze all of its regulated activities in the country. Now it has lifted the ban.
