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Last year was volatile. Many industries struggled, while some found their legs. One space, in particular, found the spark to propel their own business and serve as a support system to the global economy. Meet Buy Now, Pay Later, known as BNPL in the payments industry – an afterpay financing option empowering consumers and merchants alike.

Working from home has been an adjustment for everyone this year. With many new factors to keep in mind, employees have taken on additional responsibilities to create a space that is safe and productive.

Very Good Security wants to help! At VGS, one of our company values is “Empowered to find a way,” meaning the People team has come up with a variety of ways to support our employees so that they can focus on their best work regardless of their location.

In 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas. Today, with one bitcoin selling for over $60k, those same coins are worth over half a billion dollars. Hopefully the delivery guy or gal hung on to those coins!

Stilt launched their new product 80% quicker than they could have without VGS, and achieved PCI Level 2 compliance in just 1 week.

Accounting is one of the oldest professions. Archeologists have studied financial records that are four times older than the Great Pyramids of Egypt. “Tally marks” were etched into the thigh bone of a baboon 20,000 years ago as a form of “correspondence counting.” Of course, the earliest forms of accounting were relatively slow, insecure, and probably didn’t travel very far.

Very Good Security customer Flutterwave recently shared some excellent news! They raised $170 million in a recent Series C round, led by U.S. hedge fund and investment firm Tiger Global and New York-based private investment firm Avenir Growth Capital.

One truth we’ve all had to grapple with: COVID-19 forced almost every company to start working remotely.

Before the pandemic, our VGS team always believed it was more effective to work from the office. Although our company was distributed between two countries and had a positive attitude towards working remotely, we were an ‘office first’ culture.

If you’re reading this blog, you already know what PCI is. Chances are, you also have some inclination that it’s a pain in the you-know-what too. Just how severe that pain can be is something else altogether.

Welcome to the new and improved VGS dashboard.

As part of our mission to constantly make sure our users have a simple and easy-to-navigate experience on our platform, we are thrilled to announce our new personalized user experience called Personalized Next Steps.

Have you ever wondered where your data really goes when you send it to the cloud? If you followed the bits, there is a good chance that you would find your scientific research, shopping carts, and personal emails on a hard drive in the world’s largest data depot, inside northern Virginia’s Data Center Alley.