Add Florida and Israel to the list of places willing to let fintechs roam a little freer as both locations are opening up new sandboxes for companies to explore. In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed into law new legislation, HB 1391, to create a financial technology sandbox through the state’s Office of Financial Regulation.

CNBC released its eighth-annual list of startup companies whose innovations and products are driving the market and rapidly influencing business across the globe. This year, its Disruptor 50 rankings also take into account companies’ ability to thrive as the world prepares to come through the COVID-19 pandemic, which has drastically altered both the world’s economy and what constitutes “normalcy.”

Investment in the U.K.’s fintech sector is vastly outpacing Europe and the U.S., as the former has seen a 500% increase over the last three years. That's according to a white paper from Robert Walters.

Fintech financing has been turned on its head, and a new report from CB Insights illustrates some dramatic shifts in both the number of deals taking place and the total funding being thrown around in the sector. The report considers partnership activity, public company earnings transcripts, vertical financial analysis and the full amount of money included in deals taking place worldwide.