January 22, 2021 @ 10:30 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digital asset marketplace OKEx announced on Friday the team behind the open-source blockchain OKExChain has launched two decentralized applications, OKEx Swap and OKEx Farm, on the protocol. According to OKEx, both these new features, along with the opening of the OKT/USDT Farm Pool commenced today at 10:00… Read More

January 22, 2021 @ 6:51 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Diginex Limited, a digital assets financial services company, announced on Thursday it has completed a $38.6 million private placement with certain institutional investors. According to Diginex, an aggregate of 2,571,669 ordinary shares along with warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 2,571,669 ordinary shares… Read More

January 21, 2021 @ 9:36 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Uhive, a UK-based cryptocurrency-powered social network, has successfully secured its £500,000 funding target through its Seedrs campaign. The funding round, which recently made its debut on the equity crowdfunding platform, has already attracted 310 Seedrs investors. Founded in 2018, UHive describes itself as a… Read More

January 21, 2021 @ 9:25 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Australasia’s peer-to-peer lending marketplace Harmoney announced this week it has exceeded its loan origination forecasts for the six months to 31 December 2020 (on an unaudited basis), delivering total loan originations of NZ$194m for the period, 2% ahead of Prospectus forecasts. The marketplace also revealed… Read More

January 21, 2021 @ 9:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  BBVA announced on Wednesday it has signed the sale of a portfolio consisting of loans and real estate assets from Unnim for a gross total of approximately €700 million. BBVA reported it closed an agreement with global investment fund company KKR (primarily through its KKR… Read More

January 21, 2021 @ 4:39 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  InsurTech NY, a global InsurTech hub, announced on Thursday it has joined forces with the Bermuda Business Development Agency (BDA), Bermuda’s independent economic development public-private partnership, to launch the 2021 InsurTech Early-Stage Competition. According to the duo, this competition attracts up to 100 promising… Read More

January 21, 2021 @ 4:09 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Plaid announced on Thursday it has launched FinRise, an incubator program to empower early-stage entrepreneurs that are Black, Indigenous, or People of Color. “During an internal hackathon, Plaiderdays, last summer, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, a group of us got together to… Read More

January 21, 2021 @ 9:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Paystone, a payments and integrated software company, announces it secured $69 million in strategic financing from the Canadian Business Growth Fund (CBGF) and the National Bank of Canada. Founded in 2009, Paystone claims to be a leading payment and software company redefining the way merchants… Read More

January 21, 2021 @ 9:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

iCapital Network, a fintech providing access to alternative investments, announced on Thursday it is set to acquire the assets of AI Insight, Inc., an alternative investment education and compliance platform. According to iCapital Network, the AI Insight platform offers financial advisors investment research, training, qualification,… Read More

January 21, 2021 @ 8:16 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Temenos (SIX: TEMN), a banking software company, announced on Thursday it has hit a new milestone by supporting a total of  60 challenger bank clients. Temenos reported that digital banks, such as Alba, Alpian, Banco del Sol, Flowe, FlowBank, Lunar, Next Commercial Bank, Pepper, Varo Bank, and WeLab Bank, have selected the company’s… Read More

January 20, 2021 @ 3:58 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Trovata, a U.S.-based cash management platform, announced on Tuesday it raised $20 million through its Series A funding round, which was led by Wells Fargo Strategic Capital with participation from Capital One Ventures, Pivot Investment Partners, J.P. Morgan, and FINTOP Capital. Founded in 2016, Trovata… Read More

January 20, 2021 @ 2:53 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Cryptocurrency payments platform BitPay announced on Wednesday the integration of WalletConnect into the BitPay Wallet app. BitPay reported that BitPay Wallet app users have direct access to the decentralized exchange, decentralized games, and all the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) space has to offer. According to BitPay,… Read More

January 20, 2021 @ 1:46 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  CoinShares, a European digital asset investment firm, announced on Tuesday the launch of a new physically-backed Bitcoin Exchange-Trade Product (ETP), CoinShares Physical Bitcoin (Ticker: BITC). According to CoinShares, BITC will be the first product released on CoinShares’ new institutional-grade ETP platform and will launch… Read More

January 20, 2021 @ 1:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Celsius Network, a cryptocurrency lending and borrowing platform, announced on Wednesday it now holds more than $5.3 billion worth of cryptocurrency assets. This news comes just a couple of months after Chainalysis was able to validate over $3.3b in total assets held by Celsius Celsius reported it… Read More

January 20, 2021 @ 1:01 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Plastiq, a U.S.-based intelligent payments solution for small businesses, announced on Wednesday it has fully integrate Intuit QuickBooks Online into its payments platform. Plastiq reported that the integration will help businesses save time and money with a claim of an even more seamless, automated way… Read More

January 20, 2021 @ 11:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Brigit, a U.S.-based financial health mobile app, announced on Wednesday it not only has helped its members save more than $250 million since its platform’s launch, but it also raised $35 million through its Series A funding round, which was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners,… Read More

January 20, 2021 @ 10:06 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Wealthpilot, a Germany-based wealth management platform, announced on Wednesday it secured €8 million through its latest investment round. According to Wealthpilot, the total amount includes a contribution of €3.4 million from investor Seventure, with the remainder coming from previous investors Bayern Kapital, MIG Fonds,… Read More

January 20, 2021 @ 8:22 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Austria-based digital investment platform  Bitpanda announced on Wednesday it is now taking pre-orders for their first physical product, the Bitpanda Card. According to Bitpanda, the Bitpanda Card is a debit card facilitated by Visa and is linked to any asset in a user’s Bitpanda… Read More

January 19, 2021 @ 4:01 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Worldline, (Euronext: WLN) a European payments and transactional services firm, announced on Tuesday it has formed a co-operation partnership with Gold Global Currency Corp to offer the “DaVinci Gold” token, which is notably based on Worldline’s stablecoin management infrastructure. According to Worldline, the initiative further… Read More

January 19, 2021 @ 3:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), a banking software company, announces its next-generation Temenos Enterprise Pricing solution, which enables banks to design, manage and price innovative products, services, and product bundles using their own and third-party products. Accordingto Temenos, Temenos Enterprise Pricing can be deployed on Temenos Transact… Read More