Canada

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

April 5, 2018 @ 4:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Canadian fintech lender PayBright announced on Thursday its e-commerce financing solution is now available for merchants operating the IBM Websphere Commerce platform. According to PayBright, the e-commerce solution integrates with merchant’s e-commerce platforms and provides Canadian customers with an additional payment option at checkout. Upon selecting PayBright… Read More

April 5, 2018 @ 8:47 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Etherparty Smart Contracts Inc., a Vancouver blockchain tech company, is now accepting applications for its Rocket Three for Free contest, which will offer three projects or startups the opportunity to win full use of Etherparty’s new cryptocurrency crowdfunding platform, Rocket, free of charge. Founded by Lisa… Read More

April 4, 2018 @ 3:17 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, Canada’s OneEleven announced the participants of their Insurtech Growth Program. The startup community announced in January it was joining forces with insurance company Aviva Canada to support the success of growing Canadian insurtech companies. The program, which runs for four months, will provide the… Read More

April 4, 2018 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

  Last month, the TMX Group (the operator of the Toronto Stock Exchange) announced that its subsidiary, Shorcan Digital Currency Network, will be working with Paycase Financial to launch a new cryptocurrency brokerage service initially focused on Bitcoin and Ether. Shorcan DCN is expected to launch… Read More

April 3, 2018 @ 8:55 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Tech-focused e-trailer Newegg announced last week it will now give customers in Canada the option of paying for their purchase with bitcoin. The company reported it first offered a bitcoin payment option to its U.S. customers in August 2014 and since that time bitcoin transactions have represented… Read More

April 1, 2018 @ 3:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Canada’s leading investment crowdfunding platform, FrontFundr, is seeking female investors to help them grow. Frontfundr is in the midst of a self-crowdfunding campaign seeking a minimum raise of $750,000 (and a max of $1.5 million). Frontfundr is offering common stock in the company at a… Read More

March 30, 2018 @ 8:38 am By JD Alois  |  

While the Bank of Montreal (BMO) has not made any public pronouncements we are aware of, the Canadian Bank has apparently decided cryptocurrency is too dodgy for their customers. This week a poster on Reddit shared a BMO Bulletin (#632) entitled Blocking Cryptocurrency Transactions for… Read More