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Revolut launches as a bank in ten more European markets 04 March 2021
Source: Revolut Revolut, the global financial platform with more than 15 million customers worldwide, has operationalised its European specialised banking licence in 10 European markets. Customers in Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Malta, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia who upgrade to Revolut Bank for additional services will now have their deposits protected under the deposit guarantee scheme.
Customers in the 10 eligible European countries are now able to upgrade to Revolut Bank for additional services from within the app. The upgrade process will only take customers a few minutes. Revolut is confident that deposit accounts, alongside its wide range of products and services, will provide customer
It s no revelation at this point that people played video games in 2020. And in France, that helped the games market generate an all time high of €5.3 billion.
As reported by French games industry body SELL in its annual report yesterday, there were 27.5 million physical and digital games sold in the country in 2020, alongside 2.3 million consoles and seven million accessories.
In five years the French market has grown by 40%, from turnover of €3.6 billion in 2016. But SELL president Julie Chalmette a GI 100 alumnus believes that this growth is not all down to COVID-19. I think we were just in a specific year a year where we would be releasing two new consoles, [which is] one of the main reasons why we were expecting such growth, especially on the hardware side. And we were also expecting quite a lot of big new releases in terms of software. [In 2019], we had this slight decrease on the market compared to 2018, but we had anticipated that 2020 would mark a comeback to g
If it seems like more and more people are posting pictures of the Northern Lights to their social media feeds right now, there’s a scientific reason for that.