UK finance announcing contactless card spending limit to rise to £45 from 1 April, to reduce contact due to #COVIDー19, though individual retailers may take longer to process. Of course contactless limits often don't apply for payments via mobiles.

We got Valentina Kristensen 🦄 for breakfast this morning!! 💪🍳 How is oaknorthbank reacting to the crisis? Bring your coffee and tune in live 👇 linkedin.com/video/live/act…

Welcome positive news that London has maintained its position as the world’s leading centre for the quality of our green finance offer. This work will remain vital both during the current COVID-19 outbreak and after. 🌍 cityam.com/london-number-…

Last week our 2 newest team members were fully onboarded remotely🧑‍💻Luckily we tested a virtual onboarding process with a new data engineer just the week before! Front-end engineer Dorota joins the product delivery team and describes what it’s like to start a new job from home:

Lots of considerations going into Govt. in how to support pre-Product Market Fit startups, given they don't qualify for the loan scheme (need to be profitable) + some cannot take on debt without permission of investors (all doable but another complication). We'll get there.

Daily blog just updated. Includes survey results from 100+ scale-ups, up to last Fri. New survey out since: tech-nation.typeform.com/to/OaPyuF to compare & contrast given number of Govt. announcements. Do share your thoughts. technation.io/news/covid-19-…

Good list of UK govt support for business and other tech-related initiatives collated by ⁦Tech Nation⁩ 🦠 technation.io/news/covid-19-…

This is the sort of support all governments need to give their startups unless they want the innovative part of their economies to collapse as cash runs out, VCs stop investing, coworking spaces collapse and customers hold back cc Rishi Sunak Rt Hon Lord Alok Sharma Oliver Dowden

Great piece, and demonstrates how the Coronavirus is going to bring forward changes that were already underway in the economy.

UK's Tech Nation is doing a survey for startups about COVID-19. Responses will be sent to the Government. tech-nation.typeform.com/to/OaPyuF So what issues do you as a tech startup face now? (Apart form the obvious personal problems)

France pledges €4bn liquidity support to startups via Sifted sifted.eu/articles/franc… Hopeful that more will be done in the UK too and across Europe for startups.

The UK fintech community, including Fronted rohan agarwal and 11:FS have created a proof-of-concept tool to help self-employed workers demonstrate loss of income from COVID-19, using #OpenBanking 💕💸 hubs.ly/H0nSdqR0

It's not often I say this, but well done @RBS and NatWest Business . They have just confirmed to me they will not be asking for personal guarantees in support of emergency coronavirus loans. Over to you Barclays Bank

Last week Akriti Dokania joined a panel put together by Tech Nation to discuss fundraising in a lockdown. Here’s the practical advice that was shared. bit.ly/3ahfnx6

"Bristol is one of the top European scaling tech cities - VC investment increased by 45% between 2018 and 2019 from £220mn to £320mn" via Tech Nation 2020 Report bit.ly/2Uj2b3P

We’ve just opened up Founders News - From Founders Forum Group - algorithmically generated newsletter, each issue is entirely tailored to you using your LinkedIn and Twitter connections. newsletter.ff.co/person/subscri… Personalised news on what top founders are up to with a community spirit

Coordinated by Tramshed Tech, a new Tech Sector Taskforce has been launched in Wales to bring together organisations from across different sectors and industries to share resources on best practise of dealing with Coronavirus pandemic. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 More details 👇 hubs.ly/H0nVyDr0

The total number of #scaleups in the UK has increased: 36,510 businesses are #growing their turnover or employee numbers by more than 20% a year, an increase of 3.7% since 2016. Find out more from ScaleUp Institute hubs.ly/H0nF32v0

Going out on the street to clap people was quite extraordinary. I haven’t seen anything like that before in the UK 🇬🇧 It feels as though a new civic pride is being unleashed.

Even from bottom of my tucked away cul-de-sac I could see - and most definitely hear - people joining in #clapforourcarers. Lovely to exchange a few words with neighbours from their windows, and see smiles on faces. And now see similar WhatsApp messages from across #streatham.