August 5, 2024 @ 6:27 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Cartona, a B2B platform digitizing and empowering stakeholders of Egypt’s traditional trade market – including mom-and-pop stores, hotels, restaurants, ​​cafes, FMCG companies, ​​and ​wholesalers – has completed an $8.1 million ​​Series A extension ​fundraise. The round was led by Algebra Ventures, an Egyptian tech venture… Read More

August 3, 2024 @ 5:32 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

YouHodler chief of markets Ruslan Lienkha and risk manager Sergei Gorev were asked about recent movements in the cryptocurrency world, including Circle’s IPO and Solana price movements. YouHodler is a firm that offers a wide range of Web3 Fintech services to ensure a seamless connection… Read More

August 3, 2024 @ 5:20 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Florida is the top state for mobile banking, a new study from software company Vention finds. The study utilized Google Keyword Planner to analyze the nationwide Google search volume behind various keywords related to mobile banking—including “mobile banking,” “mobile banking app,” and “best mobile banking… Read More

August 3, 2024 @ 5:16 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

New research from Ravelin reveals that failing to tackle online fraud increasingly damages the brand reputation and bottom line for thousands of businesses worldwide. Almost two-thirds of all e-commerce brands (61%) have found themselves at the centre of highly damaging public media storms when fraud… Read More

August 3, 2024 @ 4:53 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Forensic Risk Alliance, an independent forensic consultancy specializing in regulatory investigations, compliance and disputes, has named US-based cryptocurrency specialist Thomas Hyun as a director in the firm’s global Cryptocurrency Investigations and Compliance practice. Hyun brings years of experience building and leading anti-money laundering (AML) compliance… Read More

August 3, 2024 @ 4:48 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Agri-Business Capital Fund this week announced an investment of €1.1 million in MiCreditoYa Microfinanciera SAS, a microfinance institution operating in the Nariño department in the southwest of Colombia. Access to finance remains a significant challenge in many parts of the world, particularly in rural… Read More

August 3, 2024 @ 2:34 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

deVere Group CEO Nigel Green said this week that Donald Trump’s keynote address at the 2024 Nashville Bitcoin Conference could force Kamala Harris to finally embrace the crypto industry or risk her campaign’s failure. Green made the comments following Trump’s speech at a Nashville cryptocurrency… Read More

August 3, 2024 @ 5:03 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Bank of England’s decision to cut interest rates for the first time since the pandemic began has been hailed as “a welcome step in the right direction,” by deVere Group CEO Nigel Green. Green made the comments as the UK central bank unveiled a… Read More

August 1, 2024 @ 11:53 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The evolution of Earned Wage Access, or, in Marqeta’s (NASDAQ: MQ) case, Accelerated Wage Access (AWA), is part of a larger opportunity for employers to provide more efficient financial services to people they know better than most lenders – their employees. Chief revenue officer Todd… Read More

July 29, 2024 @ 6:39 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Fintech firm Electronic Merchant Systems has hired Dan Stanbridge as chief risk and compliance officer. Stanbridge has more than 15 years of experience in the financial services industry. He was chief risk officer at Flexfactor and SVP of merchant risk at Paysafe. He led efforts to mitigate risk and… Read More

July 28, 2024 @ 5:10 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Kasheesh, a digital payment platform that allows anyone to split payment for online purchases across multiple credit cards, this week launched Multi Use Card. Kasheesh’s Multi Use Card offers one, reusable card that can split purchases across up to five debit, credit cards, and gift… Read More

July 28, 2024 @ 4:53 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Crypto specialist Bitwise Asset Management this week launched Bitwise Ethereum ETF on the New York Stock Exchange. ETHW has a management fee of 0.20%, with the fee set to 0% for the first six months on the first $500 million in assets. The fund invests directly in… Read More

July 28, 2024 @ 4:50 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

StakeWise, which provides liquid staking for DeFi natives, solo stakers, and institutions on Ethereum and Gnosis Chain, this week released the latest iteration of its liquid staking protocol, StakeWise V3, on Gnosis Chain. The deployment of Stakewise V3 on Gnosis Chain, which comes less than a year after it went… Read More

July 27, 2024 @ 1:09 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bitlayer Labs, a Bitcoin Layer 2 based on the BitVM paradigm, has completed an $11 million Series A funding round. The round is led by Franklin Templeton and ABCDE, who, alongside Framework Ventures, led Bitlayer’s seed round funding. This latest round of investment brings Bitlayer’s total funding to $16 million…. Read More

July 27, 2024 @ 1:05 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, the British Business Bank disclosed 10 additional companies in which the Future Fund holds an equity interest. That gives them an equity interest in 711 companies with a total investment of £708 million as of June 30. That’s one company less than in… Read More

July 27, 2024 @ 9:43 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

NordPass’s head of product research and development, Sorin Manole, said Mastercard’s recent commitment to reaching full e-commerce tokenization by 2030 in Europe enables better security through the increased use of passkeys. In practice, this means that cardholders can enable passkeys to authenticate e-commerce transactions. “From… Read More

July 21, 2024 @ 11:38 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Executives from two Fintech companies believe this week’s system outages could hurt SMEs the most and highlight the need for additional resiliency in an increasingly connected world. The past seven days began with an outage at CHAPS. While it was temporary, it significantly affected European… Read More

July 21, 2024 @ 10:02 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

april, an AI-powered tax-filing product built to be embedded with financial services providers, this week appointed Raj R. Doshi as its president and chief operating officer. Doshi brings more than 20 years of experience with organizations including Google, TaxAct and Avantax. Doshi’s focus will be… Read More

July 21, 2024 @ 6:49 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The co-founder of a cloud platform for global card processing insists that recent payment systems outages are the price the world pays for widely used yet outdated infrastructure. Robert Kraal is the CBDO of Silverflow, which offers a cloud-native solution with a single API for… Read More

July 21, 2024 @ 6:47 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Episode Six, a payment processing provider and digital ledger infrastructure, has announced that its cloud-based solution, offering payments-as-a-service, is now available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. The company operates across 14 AWS availability zones, including regions such as the United States, Europe, Singapore, Australia,… Read More