The feature—available in the UK, Ireland, and parts of continental Europe—lets SMB customers create, send, and track customized invoices. Additionally, Revolut is giving SMBs several choices to accept payments, including from bank transfers, credit or debit cards, and Apple Pay.

Ireland and Germany, which scored 9 and 8, respectively, also saw strong supervision, and both relied on Berlin Group’s API, “the most prescriptive” standards after UK Open Banking, per Yapily. France, Spain, and Italy are stuck at the group stage.

The two largest cryptos by market cap, Bitcoin and Ether, are mined via a process called “proof of work,” which uses tremendous amounts of energy: Bitcoin mining consumes more electricity annually than Argentina, while Ethereum’s energy use is on par with all of Ireland.

Bux is currently available in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, France, and Belgium and plans to use the funding to expand to Ireland in the coming weeks and eventually to the UK. Bux established itself as one of the largest neobrokers in Europe after adding features to bolster user engagement and fund transfers amid the pandemic.

Zego received a broking license from Dutch regulator AFM last December, allowing it to continue partnering with European firms, including escooter startup Dott in France and ehailing app FREE NOW in Ireland, just as UK licenses became invalid post-Brexit on January 1, 2021.

Third-party financial services providers in eight new markets including Portugal, Ireland, and Lithuania can now access consumers’ bank account information via the fintech’s API, per AltFi. Launched in 2019, the API processes over 150 million transactions every year.

That was roughly equivalent to the shares in France and Romania (61.6% and 60.5%, respectively) but well below the reach of SVOD in many other countries surveyed, including Canada (76.2%) and Ireland (79.2%). Growth in time-shifted and digital viewing did help to boost overall adoption of video-on-demand (VOD) in Israel to 79.3% of internet users.

In Belgium, Germany, and Ireland, for example, ownership has been above 40% since 2019, and in Denmark it reached 49.9% this year. Daily time spent with larger digital screens (desktops, laptops, and tablets) remained considerably higher than time spent with mobile devices, at an average of 3 hours, 12 minutes (3:12) and 2:10, respectively.

To help assuage regulators in Europe, TikTok said in an August company statement that it is building a data center and operations hub in Ireland, where it plans to store the data of its users in Europe once the facility opens in 2022. But it is likely that the company will continue having to answer to regulators about its practices in Europe in 2021. UK and Ireland.