May 25, 2018 @ 3:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, while New York City saw thousands of cryptocurrency enthusiasts discuss the benefits of digital assets and blockchain, a House Financial Services subcommittee reviewed initial coin offerings with the leaders of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Enforcement Division. The Congressional Hearing provided a… Read More

 Tagged arisebank, bill huizenga, brad sherman, carolyn maloney, centra tech, enforcement, initial coin offerings, sec, securities and exchange commission, stephanie avakian, steven peikin, tom emmer

May 25, 2018 @ 10:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Avaloq, an international fintech providing services and digital solutions to banks and wealth managers, announced on Thursday that Deutsche Bank Luxembourg has adopted its Avaloq Banking Suite. According to Avaloq, more than 150 customers and wealth managers manage $4 trillion in assets with Avaloq, helping everyone from… Read More

 Tagged avaloq, deutsche bank, luxembourg, onboarding

May 25, 2018 @ 8:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

VersaPay (TSXV: VPY),  a provider of cloud-based invoice-to-cash solutions including electronic invoice presentment and payment, automated accounts receivable, cash application and collections management, announced on Friday it has entered into a Global Payments Facilitator partnership with First Data. According to VersaPay, First Data serves over 6 million customers… Read More

 Tagged first data, global payments, invoice, partnership, versapay

May 24, 2018 @ 4:16 pm By Cali Haan  |  

After a fairly flat quarter of stock performance in Q1 2018, PayPal CFO John Rainey sat down with CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer last week to discuss growth of the company, plans for its mobile payment app Venmo and the possibility of enabling crypto… Read More

 Tagged cnbc, jim cramer, john rainey, paypal

May 24, 2018 @ 1:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Potential legislation is currently being circulated that may create a new Fintech Council to advocate on behalf of innovation in the financial services industry. The bill, entitled the “Financial Technology Act,” would mandate the creation of a “Federal Financial Technology Council.” (FFITC) As the language… Read More

 Tagged federal financial institutions technology council, the financial technology act

May 24, 2018 @ 11:06 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Stryking Entertainment GmbH will host its upcoming STRYKZ Token Sale Event in collaboration with the Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX). Stryking will be among the first companies to issue a token through the GBX GRID, with the token being listed on the GBX Exchange after the… Read More

 Tagged bloxpo, bundesliga, d10e, dirk weyel, fifa, football, gbx, gbx grid, hong thieu, soccer, stryking, strykz, token sale

May 24, 2018 @ 9:22 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) announced on Thursday it has made a strategic investment in YellowPepper, a mobile payments platform in Latin America, to help accelerate innovation in digital payment technology. Visa reported that this is the first of its kind for the credit card giant in… Read More

 Tagged caribean, digital payments, investment, latin america, visa, yellowpepper

May 24, 2018 @ 8:46 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Alternative lending observes a continuously increasing number of Millennials and Generation Z, according to the Latvian P2P platform Robo.cash. This growth is supported by the interest of young investors in a “simple and comfortable source of additional income” and the positive experience gained at the… Read More

 Tagged latvia, millenials, p2p lending, robo.cash, robocash, sergey sedov

May 24, 2018 @ 7:22 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Earlier this week Digital challenger bank Revolut asked customers to help name its new and exclusive metal card. Now the maverick platform has moved again from metal to crypto: Revolut customers can buy, hold and sell two more cryptocurrencies instantly within the app. In December last year,… Read More

 Tagged bitcoin, bitcoin cash, btc, crypto, cryptocurrency, litecoin, london, revolut, vaults, vlad yatsenko, xrp

May 24, 2018 @ 6:58 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) and the Astana Financial Service Authority of Astana International Financial Centre (AFSA-AIFC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) during the Annual Conference of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) held in… Read More

 Tagged adgm, afsa-aifc, astana financial service authority of astana international financial centre, financial services regulatory authority of abu dhabi global market, fsra, mukhtar bubeyev, philippe richard