May 25, 2018 @ 5:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase grew this week. The digital currency exchange acquired Paradex, a platform that describes itself as “an elite, peer-to-peer trading platform focused on speed, reliability and non-custodianship.” This also becomes a way for Coinbase to broaden its reach into more crypto. Paradex posted a comment… Read More

May 25, 2018 @ 12:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

ArchOver, the UK P2P business lending platform, announced this week the launch of its Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA)to both new and existing lender. ArchOver reported that the IFISA allows individuals to earn tax-free returns by investing over P2P lending platforms using their annual ISA allowance of… Read More

May 25, 2018 @ 11:41 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book announced earlier this week it is working with LendingTree to offer more auto lending options. While sharing details about the new collaboration, Jai Macker, Senior Vice President of Product at Cox Automotive, the mother company of Autotrader and Kelley Blue… Read More

May 25, 2018 @ 10:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Avaloq, an international fintech providing services and digital solutions to banks and wealth managers, announced on Thursday that Deutsche Bank Luxembourg has adopted its Avaloq Banking Suite. According to Avaloq, more than 150 customers and wealth managers manage $4 trillion in assets with Avaloq, helping everyone from… Read More

May 25, 2018 @ 9:38 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nanusens, a Spanish technology startup, is set to complete its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube with nearly £900,000 from more than 775 investors. The funding round was launched last month and quickly secured its initial £400,000 funding target. Nanusens reported it raised £89,206 prior to launching its… Read More

May 25, 2018 @ 9:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. announced last week it has agreed to sponsor Neutrino, Japan’s first blockchain1 coworking space. According to the firm, Neutrino, which located in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward, was established by Omise Japan (CEO: Jun Hasegawa). It was reported: “One of the key features… Read More

May 25, 2018 @ 8:16 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based peer to peer lending platform RateSetter has topped £2.5 billion in loan originations, according to a note from the company. The online lender provides credit to both individuals and UK SMEs. The milestone comes just as RateSetter announced that it had generated £100… Read More

May 25, 2018 @ 8:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

VersaPay (TSXV: VPY),  a provider of cloud-based invoice-to-cash solutions including electronic invoice presentment and payment, automated accounts receivable, cash application and collections management, announced on Friday it has entered into a Global Payments Facilitator partnership with First Data. According to VersaPay, First Data serves over 6 million customers… Read More

May 25, 2018 @ 7:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Huobi.Pro, a cryptocurrency exchange, says it wants to make Vietnam a strategic fortress. The comments came during a keynote speech at the Blockchain Festival Vietnam. Huobi claimed an annual turnover of $850 million in 2017 – so it is pretty big. While some jurisdictions have… Read More

May 25, 2018 @ 7:41 am By Cali Haan  |  

Hackers have successfully executed attacks on three cyrptocurrency blockchains in the past week. Verge, Bitcoin Gold and MonaCoin were all robbed of coins in the attacks. The network of a purported privacy coin called Verge was successfully hijacked last weekend when hackers hijacked the network… Read More

May 24, 2018 @ 9:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

1854 Media, a digital media business, successfully secured its initial £400,000 funding in just 24 hours on equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube. The company previously raised nearly £400,000 through the funding portal in 2016 under the name British Journal of Photography. As previously reported, the publication has… Read More

May 24, 2018 @ 4:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Mobius (MOBI) has partnered with Producers Market to create a blockchain powered agricultural market where crypto is being accepted for purchases. Mobius says their collaboration creates the first of its kind market where cryptocurrency is accepted between farm and food processor. Producers Market represents farms… Read More

May 24, 2018 @ 4:16 pm By Cali Haan  |  

After a fairly flat quarter of stock performance in Q1 2018, PayPal CFO John Rainey sat down with CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer last week to discuss growth of the company, plans for its mobile payment app Venmo and the possibility of enabling crypto… Read More

May 24, 2018 @ 2:33 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A group of prison abolitionists in New York are asking the public to donate a small amount of computer processing power to mine a cryptocurrency called Monero to benefit a project that bails out prisoners stuck in pretrial detention because they cannot afford bail. “Bail Bloc”… Read More

May 24, 2018 @ 1:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Potential legislation is currently being circulated that may create a new Fintech Council to advocate on behalf of innovation in the financial services industry. The bill, entitled the “Financial Technology Act,” would mandate the creation of a “Federal Financial Technology Council.” (FFITC) As the language… Read More

May 24, 2018 @ 1:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

European Tour professional golfer, Scott Jamieson, announced this week that he is being sponsored by a digital currency company. The deal with LIFElabs.io is effective immediately and will see the athlete raise the profile of its digital currency, LIFEtoken and support its numerous charitable initiatives around the globe. Founded in 2017,… Read More

May 24, 2018 @ 12:28 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Spectacular spoofing and wash-trading practices largely regarded as par-for-the-course among early crypto traders are coming under the scrutiny of the US Department of Justice and its partner, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Bloomberg reports. Better regulation of the cryptocurrency markets is largely regarded as a… Read More

May 24, 2018 @ 12:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Caspian, the full-stack crypto trading, portfolio and risk management platform for institutional and sophisticated investors, announced on Thursday it has formed a partnership with BitMEX (Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange) a bitcoin peer-to-peer trading platform, in order to further support and facilitate institutional investment’s move into crypto… Read More

May 24, 2018 @ 11:06 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Stryking Entertainment GmbH will host its upcoming STRYKZ Token Sale Event in collaboration with the Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX). Stryking will be among the first companies to issue a token through the GBX GRID, with the token being listed on the GBX Exchange after the… Read More