European Shares Slide Amid Delta Variant Concerns
European stocks declined on Monday, as inflation worries persisted and COVID-19 cases spiked across Asia over the weekend. Closer home, the Delta strain, which has already taken hold in the U.K., is becoming more prevalent elsewhere across Europe. The pan-European Stoxx 600 dropped 0.3 percent to 456.50 after closing 0.1 percent
Prepaid card delay leaves asylum seekers ‘near destitution’
The Home Office gives asylum seekers £39.63 a week via a prepaid card, called an Aspen card. Late last month, the contract to administer the funds was passed from Sodexo to Prepaid Financial Services, with has been sending out replacement cards. Thousands of asylum seekers in the UK have been left without access to money [&helli
Synctera raises $33m to connect community banks and fintechs
Gaingels, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Diagram Ventures, SciFi Ventures, and Scribble Ventures joined the round, as did angels including Omri Dahan (CRO, Marqeta), Nuno Sebastiao (CEO, Feedzai), Tim Sheehan ( CEO, Greenlight). Synctera is the brainchild of CEO Peter Hazlehurst, former head of Uber Money, head of Google Wallet and