February 23, 2016 @ 6:15 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The Mobile World Congress 2016 continues today in sunny Barcelona.  PayPal announced its new global partnerships and product updates that showcase its vision of using technology to reimagine financial services to be faster, simpler and more inclusive, whether online, in-app, in store or in new contexts. “We… Read More

February 23, 2016 @ 5:57 am By Erin Hobey  |  

myPINpad, UK based technology company which enables multi-channel and multi-factor authentication via the Cardholder PIN has appointed a new Head of Global Partnerships, Dheeraj “DJ” Ahluwalia. The appointment signals an exciting period of growth for the business. Following the announcement of a partnership with VocaLink late last year,… Read More

February 23, 2016 @ 5:42 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Safe Cash, an end-to-end secure digital payment technology for banks, merchants, and consumers, has announced that it is able to handle up to 25,000 transactions per second on its blockchain – more than 3,000 times as many as Bitcoin. The time to complete and final settlement… Read More

February 18, 2016 @ 7:03 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Twelve Canadian startups have been selected from across the country to pitch to investors like OMERS, Whitecap Venture Partners, YEDI, Extreme Venture Partners, DMZ at Ryerson University at the 2016 Canadian Crowdfunding Summit. This year’s theme is “The Future is NOW.” With the newly released equity crowdfunding regulations in Canada and… Read More

February 18, 2016 @ 6:42 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Invesdor officially initiated its operations in Norway with a Norwegian-based equity offering, insurance sector software platform Cloud Insurance. The launch will officially be announced and the crowdfunding round will open at the TechLive! Financial Disruption event in Oslo today. “Until now, Norwegian companies have had no way to raise funds in… Read More

February 18, 2016 @ 6:14 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Racefields, an FCA authorized corporate finance house, today launched the Racefields Research Service, which will investigate businesses looking to raise finance on P2P and crowdfunding platforms. The independent service will provide over one hundred in-depth reports on individual businesses every year, which subscribers can access… Read More

February 18, 2016 @ 5:40 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Coinprism, which last year released the blockchain platform Openchain, is joining the Accenture Fintech Innovation Lab, reported IBT. Accenture and a panel of banks in charge of selecting promising FinTech startups recognised the potential of Openchain and selected Coinprism to be amongst the six companies to join… Read More

February 16, 2016 @ 7:25 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Every dog may have its day, but not many have an equity crowdfunding venture loan campaign.  Sure, we’ve seen Exploding kittens and BorrowMyDoggy fetch success; the pet sector is booming with interesting ideas and hot products. Now Hundemaxx, Germany’s largest chain of dog supply store, with approximately 35,000 products sold… Read More

February 16, 2016 @ 6:37 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Kwanji, the emerging market payment specialist, has closed its first crowdfunding round, exceeding its initial target and finishing 123 per cent overfunded having raised £496,682 on the UK equity crowdfunding platform,  SyndicateRoom. “Kwanji is a fantastic UK-based fintech business, which helps SMEs save significant amounts of money… Read More

February 16, 2016 @ 6:10 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Spanish Bank BBVA is banking on fintech’s success. Having launched the BBVA Ventures fund in 2013 with $100 million to invest in digital fintech startups, the bank recently added $150 million in funds. The bank will be partnering with Propel Venture Partners, according to Money Market UK…. Read More

February 16, 2016 @ 5:49 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The KU Endowment Association is trying to raise money for smaller projects across campus with a new crowdfunding campaign called Launch KU. The School of Engineering’s first crowdfunding project is seeking $100,000 to recruit and support minority and female engineering students. Because it is by far the… Read More

February 11, 2016 @ 5:45 am By Erin Hobey  |  

“As the first regulated equity crowdfunding platform in the world, Seedrs has always focused on doing equity crowdfunding the right way. Our mission is to build a sustainable industry with a business approach focused on a combination of scale and professionalism. We create a world-class… Read More

February 11, 2016 @ 5:10 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Y Combinator announced that the five year partnership with Imagine K12 has taken its next step on its Posthaven blog, the original edtech accelerator, has joined Y Combinator to form an edtech vertical within YC. Agreeing that 2016 was the right time to create YC/Imagine K12, the team decided to… Read More

February 11, 2016 @ 4:34 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Mumbai-based P2P lending fintech startup, Capzest, has raised $200K in seed funding from LionVentures, a seed investment and innovation platform founded by Anurag Mehrotra founder of LionVentures; Varun Dua, co-founder and CEO of Coverfox; Amit Tambe, former senior partner of Trilegal India and Vikas Jhunjhunwala, a Mumbai-based textile businessman reported VC Circle…. Read More

February 9, 2016 @ 10:01 am By Erin Hobey  |  

National Funding, a private lenders of small business loans, today announced that industry veteran Geoff Howard has joined its executive team as Executive Vice President of Technology. Howard joins National Funding from Intuit during the company’s fastest-growth period, which has experienced a 172% revenue growth surge… Read More

February 9, 2016 @ 6:06 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Switzerland’s potential as a European fintech hub is being damaged by lack of Government and bank support and a shortage of investment capital, according to a new report by Ernst & Young and Swiss Finance + Technology Association. Despite the advantages incurred by the country’s skilled… Read More

February 9, 2016 @ 5:43 am By Erin Hobey  |  

UK FinTech firm Hello Soda, headquartered in Manchester, has launched ‘Hello Soda Asia’, its new South East Asian venture. The new FinTech venture which gives the firm a strategic foothold in South East Asia, will operate out of Bangkok, Thailand and Singapore, and will specifically… Read More

February 9, 2016 @ 5:17 am By Erin Hobey  |  

NovitasPartners and FTCL, two UK boutique corporate finance firms specialising in the fintech sector, today announced their merger to meet the growing demand for corporate finance advisory services from clients within the payments, data, financial software, market infrastructure, business process outsourcing, and securities services subsections…. Read More

February 9, 2016 @ 5:06 am By Erin Hobey  |  

KPMG has acquired fintech platform Markets IT for an undisclosed sum, in an effort to expand its “big data” capability and help banking clients grapple with a barrage of regulatory change, according to the Financial Review. KPMG Australia CEO Gary Wingrove referred to the merger as a “timely… Read More

February 9, 2016 @ 4:11 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Bond Street, an online lending platform for small businesses, and Booker, an all-­in-­one local service commerce platform, today announced a partnership to provide fairly­priced lending capital to help facilitate the growth of companies on the Booker platform. “Bond Street shares Booker’s mission to minimize the… Read More