This Week in Fintech: TFT Bi-Weekly News Roundup 21/12

This Week in Fintech: TFT Bi-Weekly News Roundup 21/12

New research from Crypto Head reveals that less than five per cent of crypto entrepreneurs are female. The research also reveals that San Francisco is the crypto company capital of the world, with eight of the 50 companies in the study from the city. More than 3,000 self-assessment tax returns are expected to be filed on Christmas Day this year, according to tax app untied. Figures also indicate that every day in January between 30,000 and 700,000 people scramble to submit their forms in time. Financial services organisations are struggling to keep up with digital transformation, according to Dynatrace . It has also found that siloed team culture, manual approaches and increasingly complex tooling in financial IT departments are slowing innovation and making teams more reactive than proactive. AstroPay, the online payment provider, has further strengthened its partnership with Burnley Football Club by becoming Burnley FC Women’s front of shirt sponsor for the remainder of the 2021/22 season. It has also sponsored the newly installed dugouts at Turf Moor. A stroPay is already the men’s team official sleeve sponsor. Swarm Markets GmbH, the degulated decentralised financial infrastructure provider, is to launch a peer-to-peer contract for high value transactions in Q1