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Much has been said about the rise of the cashless society, and that was even before the pandemic. Over the course of 2020, cash has shifted from being just a passé mode of payment to becoming a breeding ground for a killer virus.
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Anton Komukhin
27.04.2021
ikigai is establishing a place for better financial health in the world of UK fintech. Still reeling from its March launch, the challenger is now crowdfunding.
13.04.2021
Ire Aderinokun is a frontend web developer and user interface designer from Lagos, Nigeria. She is the cofounder and COO of BuyCoins (YC S18), a cryptocurrency exchange for Africa.
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Ire Aderinokun
07.04.2021
Money is inextricably linked to our mental, emotional and physical health. In fact, the Office of National Statistics Opinions and Lifestyle survey has outlined that emotional wellbeing, unemployment and financial stability are the top three worries that affect people across the UK.
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Jeppe Rindom
31.03.2021
Dealroom has released its annual ranking of its most prominent venture capital investors for 2021. It follows another record-breaking year in 2020, where VC investment surpassed more than €38B in Europe.
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Maddyness UK
22.03.2021
On the face of it, online payments appear to be a pretty well-solved problem. Payment pioneers such as Paypal, Adyen & Stripe have come to prominence over the past 15 years, and are so ubiquitous that they now have a combined market cap of $440B.
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Tom Lambert
04.03.2021
Putting the finance team of any business at the centre of its strategy could help it become more resilient in tough times. Grace Child, senior product marketer at business software and services company Advanced, explains why.
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Grace Child
03.03.2021
Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) as tools for the gathering and analysis of business data was already a prominent trend before the pandemic, but its relevance and increasing adoption is even more accelerated now.
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02.03.2021
The way we are saving, accessing and investing our money has never been more diverse than in the modern day. Jonathan Hughes, CEO of Pollinate Horizons, explores the rise in banking innovation and what this means for the original bricks-and-mortar banking world.
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Jonathan Hughes
25.02.2021
Rapper-entrepreneur Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, teamed up to form a new Bitcoin fund, focused on developing the cryptocurrency’s adoption initially in Africa and India.
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January Barnes
24.02.2021
The electricity consumption of bitcoin mining is around 121.36 TWh annually – greater than Argentina's – according to research from Cambridge University. The value of bitcoin has been hitting record highs, bolstered by news Elon Musk’s Tesla has invested in the cryptocurrency. These price rises have encouraged bitcoin miners to ramp up mining – driving increased energy consumption. (BBC News)
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22.02.2021
Every week, Maddyness curates articles from other outlets on a topic that is driving the headlines. This Monday, we look into news surrounding bitcoin – which recently hit the $50,000 per coin European trading landmark.
22.02.2021
For the UK’s 4.5M renters, the largest rental barrier is the upfront deposit. Almost £5B is locked in deposit protection schemes, preventing renters from moving.
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Kirstie Pickering
19.02.2021
If you’re reading this on the day of publication, it’s exactly a decade since Crowdcube, the UK crowdfunding platform, launched. Since then, it has accrued over 1M members and has helped businesses raise a total of more than £1B. Not bad, right?
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15.02.2021
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