Report Tauts Florida’s Vibrant VC Scene: $2.1 Billion for 332 Deals During H1 2024. Fintech Sector Most Active

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Florida, and the Miami region specifically, has emerged as a fast-growing startup/entrepreneur ecosystem. The warm weather (minus the occasional hurricane), combined with a business-friendly state government and no state income taxes, has helped shift activity from elsewhere to the Sunshine State. Some big firms have… Read More

 

 




Real Estate Investment Platform Groundfloor Offers “Evolution” in Fractionalized Real Estate

Real estate investment platform Groundfloor is now offering a “next evolution” in fractionalized real estate offerings. Groundfloor’s launch of its Flywheel Portfolio aims to support diversification into different real estate properties by enabling investors to invest in “hundreds” of loans – down to as little… Read More

Gnosis Launches Rewards Program Targeting GNO Holders

This week, Gnosis, architects of the fully EVM-compatible Layer-1 Gnosis Chain, announced the launch of a rewards program it believes will benefit GNO holders, accelerate the mainstream adoption of crypto payments, and generate further stakeholder engagement on the network. Following the recent approval of GIP-110… Read More

Small Businesses in the US Encounter Fiscal Challenges Due to Lack of Financial Literacy – Report

Research from global cloud-based small business platform Xero reveals a notable gap in financial literacy among U.S. small business owners. Despite 55% of small business owners rating their financial literacy as ‘high’, half (50%) actively face fiscal challenges in their business due to a lack… Read More

Netcoins USA Teams Up with APX (US) Lending to Provide Digital Assets Backed Lending Services

BIGG Digital Assets Inc, a firm focused on the digital assets space and owner of Netcoins, Blockchain Intelligence Group, and TerraZero, announced that Netcoins USA has signed a partnership agreement with APX Lending, which is said to be a “crypto-backed” lending platform, to provide crypto-backed… Read More

Digital Bank LendingClub, Pagaya Purchase Tally Assets

LendingClub (NYSE: LC) and Pagaya (NASDAQ: PGY) have announced the purchase of the assets of Tally Technologies. Tally, a Fintech that sought to support consumers in managing their credit card debt, shut down operations last August. The former CEO said at the time that they… Read More

After Receipt of Wells Notice, Crypto.com Files Lawsuit Against US SEC to “Protect” Future of Crypto in the US

Crypto.com has filed suit against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The legal move follows the receipt of a Wells Notice, which indicates that SEC staff are recommending an enforcement action against the firm. Multiple crypto focused firms have been sued or are in receipt… Read More

Northern Ireland Reportedly Leads UK Private Sector Growth as Autumn Budget “Dominates” Outlook

Business activity rose in all but one of the UK’s 12 nations and regions last month, following broad-based growth in the month prior, according to the latest NatWest Regional Growth Tracker. As noted in a blog post by NatWest, the Business Activity Index is said… Read More

Assetera and Archax to Enhance Distribution of Tokenized Real-World Assets (RWAs) across EU and EEA Regions

Assetera and Archax have launched a partnership to enhance the distribution of tokenized real- world assets across the EU/EEA. This collaboration enables access to digital assets, which is said to include Funds and Structured Products, listed on Archax, facilitating primary sales and secondary market trading… Read More

UK’s Digital Bank Monzo Invests in Ireland Division to Expand European Operations

UK’s digital bank Monzo has injected €4m in capital into its new Irish division. The update comes just several months following Monzo’s CEO,  TS Anil, stating that the Fintech firm was in the process of establishing its EU offices in Ireland. At the time of… Read More

Contactless Payments: Japan’s International Payment Provider JCB Reportedly Enables Google Pay for Clients

JCB Co., Ltd., Japan’s international payments provider, announced that it enabled Google Pay for its clients. Android(TM) smartphone users are able to now easily use Google Pay in stores where JCB Contactless is accepted, by adding credit/debit cards issued by the JCB Group in Japan… Read More


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Coreless Banking Fintech XYB to Assist Banks with Streamlining Core Systems

XYB, the Coreless Banking Platform business, has announced its plans to help banks enhance their core systems. XYB is working with global tech leader IBM to provide technologies and consulting expertise that can help financial services firms with addressing the increasing requirements for core modernization… Read More

Experian and Consumer Lender Oakbrook to Launch Debt Consolidation Loans

Experian Consumer Services announcing a partnership with Oakbrook, a non-bank consumer lender, to offer debt consolidation loans on the Experian Marketplace by reportedly using Paylink’s ReFi tech. This recently announced collaboration is said to mark a significant milestone in improving financial inclusion and unlocking access… Read More

Crypto.com to Enhance Digital Assets Liquidity and Custody Solutions for 21.co’s Wrapped Tokens

21.co, the parent company of 21Shares – one of the issuers of crypto exchange traded products (ETPs), and Crypto.com, announced that they have recently entered into a strategic partnership. With this partnership, 21.co Wrapped Bitcoin (21BTC) will source Bitcoin (BTC) liquidity from Crypto.com, leveraging the… Read More

Online Payments: Cashflows Brings Mastercard Click to Pay to UK Firms

Cashflows, the platform that for merchants to accept payments, announces its partnership with Mastercard (NYSE: MA) to offer its merchants Click to Pay. Mastercard Click to Pay is a described as a consistent way to make online payments, offering consumers a user-friendly guest checkout across… Read More

Abrigo Small Business Lending Celebrates Debut

This past week, Abrigo, a provider of commercial lending software and services for U.S. financial institutions, announced that Abrigo Small Business Lending has emerged from beta. The company said the increased automation improves lenders’ ability to manage increased volumes while still maintaining the human touch when needed…. Read More

Stablecoin USDT Issuer Tether Marks 10 Years of Operations, Reflects on Digital Assets Market Growth

Tether, which claims to be among the largest companies in the digital assets industry, marks a decade of pioneering advancements and innovation that have helped with transforming the landscape of digital assets. Since its launch in 2014, Tether claims it has enhanced finance by introducing… Read More

OwlTing, Visa Direct Ink Payment Partnership

This week, OwlTing Group, a global blockchain Fintech company, announced plans to implement Visa Direct solutions under a global agreement with Visa to provide real-time cross-border payments for individual and business customers. This agreement allows OwlTing to potentially reach more than 8.5 billion endpoints in… Read More

UK’s A2A Payments Market Continues to Evolve with E-Commerce and P2P Payment Options Becoming More Accessible – Report

The payments landscape has evolved considerably in the past decade, according to an update from Juniper Research. Juniper Research noted in a report that many payment methods rising to some of the most used solutions across retail, digital commerce, B2B, as well as P2P scenarios…. Read More

Retirement Planning: UK Consumers’ Options for Future FCA Regulated Pensions Dashboards are Growing

Fidelity International, Mercer, Penny and Pension Lab have reportedly joined the industry coalition of “potential” operators of commercial pensions dashboards, working with government and regulators in order help support the launch of various dashboards for UK consumers. As explained in the update, dashboards provide consumers… Read More