Canada

May 8, 2018 @ 12:30 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Bitfinex, a digital asset trading platform, has added Peter Warrack, former Director of AML (Fintech Advisory) and Compliance Officer at the Bank of Montreal, to its team as Chief Compliance Officer (CCO). With a reported daily trading volume of more than $1.2 billion USD, Bitfinex is a… Read More

May 3, 2018 @ 11:41 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Online P2P lender Lending Loop has partnered with the Ontario government to launch a pilot project that will provide $3M in loans over the next two years, according to the Globe and Mail. The article indicated that the Ontario government will boost Toronto-based Lending Loop’s… Read More

May 2, 2018 @ 3:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, fintech Quovo announced it is officially expanding into Canada with partial support by an investment from its partners at Portag3 Ventures. This news comes less than a month after Quovo rolled out new products to improve its lending value chain. While sharing details… Read More

May 1, 2018 @ 8:23 am By Cali Haan  |  

The Autorite Des Marches Financiers, regulator of financial markets in Quebec, has sanctioned the operators of two ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings). According to an April 19 press release from the AMF, after an ‘ex parte’ hearing on April 13th, the Administrative Financial Markets Tribunal (TMF):… Read More

April 29, 2018 @ 8:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Canada is on a determined path to legalize both medical and recreational use of Cannabis. At some point later this year, across all of the Canadian provinces Cannabis will be legally sold thus increasing legal demand and suppliers are rushing to accommodate expectations of a… Read More

April 27, 2018 @ 10:19 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) announced on Thursday it is set to host its inaugural Canada Technology Start-up Day at its Montreal Technology Centre today. The financial giant reported that the invitation-only event is providing some of Canada’s most promising emerging technology companies with the opportunity for… Read More

April 27, 2018 @ 8:24 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Boston-based fintech FinMason announced on Friday its Canadian launch with the rolling out of the Canadian dollar version of its investment analytics as a service platform. FinMason reported that the enhancement marks the first step in its international expansion efforts. According to FinMason, the new… Read More

April 26, 2018 @ 3:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

iComply Investor Services has announced a new strategic partnership with Cointaxes, a platform for Canadian taxpayers to help manage their tax liability for crypto. The software has been available for US citizens for some time (tax day was April 15 in the States) but now… Read More

April 22, 2018 @ 2:00 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Soft spoken computer scientist Adam Back, one of the most important figures in the technical history of Bitcoin, had a hard act to follow after Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert burned down the stage presenting their gleeful and anarchic brand of Bitcoin-boosting. “The era of… Read More

April 21, 2018 @ 5:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

National Bank of Canada (NBC) announced on Friday, with the support of J.P. Morgan, it issued a $150 million one-year floating-rate Yankee certificate of deposit, with a parallel simulation of the issuance using blockchain technology. According to the banking group, this blockchain test involved the parties… Read More

April 21, 2018 @ 4:49 pm By Cali Haan  |  

  Before Alena Vranova became one of Bitcoin’s early entrepreneurs in 2013, this cofounder of Satoshi Labs and Trezor Hardware Wallets spent ten years innovating in the insurance industry in her native Czech Republic. There, she learned her first lesson in industry disruption: “Don’t listen to people… Read More

April 20, 2018 @ 3:01 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Well-known “Bitcoin Maximalist” and despiser of ICO’s (Initial Coin Offerings) Tone Vays has lately been so deluged with idiotic requests to advise on ICO’s that he has updated his LinkedIn profile to the following: “I am NOT interested in your ICO/Token Sale. Please send all requests… Read More

April 17, 2018 @ 10:41 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A CryptoKittie trader has made $210,000 trading digital cartoon cats in collector markets, reports Kevin Pan at tokendaily.co. The trader, known as “DapperKittie,” bought his or her first Bitcoin in 2012 for $20, and by 2017, was familiar enough with crypto to make strong early… Read More

April 17, 2018 @ 11:19 am By Erin Hobey  |  

CAN Capital, a tech-driven small business specialty finance company, has hired Tom Davidson as its new Chief Financial Officer. Davidson brings 25 years of financial services experience to the company, including deep expertise in capital markets, securitization, treasury, investor relations and risk management. “I couldn’t be more… Read More

April 13, 2018 @ 10:19 am By Cali Haan  |  

Press tracking events in crypto have been reporting on talent migrating from traditional tech and finance into blockchain and crypto for some time now. The latest news concerns an announcement that Richard Kim, formerly VP London at Goldman Sachs, is now CEO at Mike Novogratz’s new… Read More

April 12, 2018 @ 4:00 am By Cali Haan  |  

Shortly into CryptoChicks Female-Focussed Hackathon and Conference held April 6-8 in Toronto, Neufund CEO Zoe Adamovicz called out the insignificant presence of females at most blockchain conferences she attends. The North American Bitcoin Conference, for example, held January in Miami, featured just 3 out of… Read More

April 11, 2018 @ 12:57 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, ATB Financial announced the city of Alberta will get a boost in its contribution to the national artificial intelligence (AI) industry through a four-year partnership between it and the University of Alberta. According to ATB Financial, a group of students, paired with selected… Read More

April 11, 2018 @ 10:30 am By Cali Haan  |  

  Speaking Saturday at the Cryptochicks Conference in Toronto, Zoe Adamovicz, CEO of Neufund, an online equity token-investing platform based in Germany, characterized the current regulatory crackdown in the US as as much about “protecting investors” as a matter of “jurisdictional competition,” where countries, negotiate… Read More

April 9, 2018 @ 1:37 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

FrontFundr, the leading Vancouver-based Canadian online investing platform, utilizes its online exempt market dealer (EMD) status plus its modern technology to enable users across Canada to invest in innovative growth businesses in under 12 minutes and starting from $250. “We are pleased to announce that… Read More

April 9, 2018 @ 1:03 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Nova Credit, based in San Francisco and backed by Index Ventures, First Round Capital, NYCA and Core Innovation Capital, has partnered with Transunion to serve creditworthy newcomers to Canada who may otherwise miss out on credit opportunities due to a lack of Canadian credit history…. Read More