December 2, 2020 @ 9:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers at Fuse.io, a Tel Aviv based Fintech firm that aims to leverage (decentralized finance) DeFi infrastructure to create a platform for entrepreneurs that allows them to turn “communities into economies,” have partnered with Monerium in order to bring regulated fiat money to the… Read More

 Tagged digital assets, digital money, distributed ledger technology, dlt, e-money, fuse.io, israel, monerium, open banking, tel aviv

December 2, 2020 @ 8:07 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

PingPong Payments, a payment service provider for e-commerce sellers, announced on Wednesday it has received its authorization as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) in Luxembourg. Founded in 2015, PingPong stated that its mission of helping global… Read More

 Tagged digital payments, e-money, license, luxembourg, pingpong payments

December 2, 2020 @ 3:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Money app Ziglu says that its equity crowdfunding round is the largest offering on Seedrs for all of 2020. The securities offering closed on Seedrs this past fall. The Fintech raised over £6 million backed by about 1250 investors. Ziglu set a low-end hurdle of… Read More

 Tagged john lake, seedrs, uk, united kingdom, yang li, ziglu

December 1, 2020 @ 10:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

China is reportedly planning to introduce “special” and “innovative” regulatory guidelines for  Fintech giants like billionaire Jack Ma’s Ant Group Co., which is a subsidiary of the Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA). Regulators in China aim to create new policies so they can eliminate monopolistic practices… Read More

 Tagged alibaba, alibaba group, alibaba group holding, ant group, china, fintech adoption, guo shuqing, initial public offering, ipo, jack ma, mainland china

December 1, 2020 @ 8:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Whitecap Consulting has released a new report titled, Northern Ireland Fintech Ecosystem Report 2020. It reveals that the region has a population of almost 1.9 million with over 36,000 professionals employed in the financial services or technology sectors. There are at least 74 tech firms… Read More

 Tagged allstate northern ireland, belfast, europe, fintech adoption, fintech careers, ireland, john healy, northern ireland, research, Research Report, Tech Firms, uk, united kingdom, whitecap consulting

December 1, 2020 @ 7:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital bank Revolut has announced an early salary feature available to UK customers. The new feature means that Revolut’s UK customers can access their salaries and all payments made over the Bacs payment scheme a working day earlier than usual. In the case where they… Read More

 Tagged modulr, revolut, uk, united kingdom

December 1, 2020 @ 3:39 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a little over a month after announcing its payment capabilities debuted in South Korea, B2B fintech-as-a-service provider Rapyd announced it has launched the capabilities in Thailand. According to Rapyd, the integrated solution is a comprehensive set of local and international payment methods that includes… Read More

 Tagged fintech, fintech as a service, payment capabilities, rapyd, thailand

December 1, 2020 @ 2:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Vivenu, an API-first and fully-featured ticketing platform, announced on Tuesday it secured €12.6 million through its Series A funding round, which was led by Balderton Capital with previous investor Redalpine also doubling down. Founded in 2018, Vivenu is on a mission to make sophisticated live… Read More

 Tagged api, balderton capital, fully-featured ticketing, investment, series a, vivenu

December 1, 2020 @ 11:58 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Yapily, a UK-based open banking infrastructure provider, announced on Tuesday it has appointed Martin Threadkall as its new COO. According to Yapily, Threadkall brings more than a decade of growing payment startup and scale-up businesses expertise. Prior to joining Yapily, Threadkall was notably the Co-Founder… Read More

 Tagged appointment, europe, expansion, martin threadkall, yapily

December 1, 2020 @ 11:47 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Backbase, an omni-channel banking solution provider, announced on Tuesday the launch of its next-generation platform, as well as the release of its enhanced Backbase-as-a-Service (BaaS) offering. According to Backbase, the product launches mark an “acceleration” of its move towards a technology-led, single platform play. “Backbase’s… Read More

 Tagged backbase, backbase as a service, banking, digital banking, engagement