General News

March 24, 2021 @ 1:53 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Plaid announced on Wednesday the inaugural cohort of five early-stage fintech startups for FinRise, which is Plaid’s incubator program to empower early-stage entrepreneurs that are Black, Indigenous or People of Color.  As previously reported, FinRise is a nine-month program designed to support early-stage founders… Read More

March 24, 2021 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lending platform RateSetter explains that a debt consolidation loan might be a good or suitable way to make managing your funds easier by “rolling your existing borrowing into one simple monthly payment.” RateSetter, which was once a leading P2P lender that has now sold its… Read More

March 23, 2021 @ 2:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Hong Kong-based Crypto.com announced on Tuesday its virtual cards are now available in Europe. Crypto.com reported its app users may now apply for a Crypto.com Visa Card and once approved, make online purchases before their physical cards arrive. The card is issued by PayrNet Ltd… Read More

March 23, 2021 @ 11:31 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Canadian fintech Mogo Inc. (TSX:MOGO) (NASDAQ:MOGO) announced on Tuesday it is set to acquire Moka Financial Technologies, a Canada-based saving and investing app, in an all-stock transaction.  Launched in 2017, Moka (originally Mylo) is on a mission to help its users achieve their financial… Read More

March 23, 2021 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Robo.cash, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace, says the top asset classes for investing in 2021 are gold, crypto followed by peer to peer loans. Robo.cash says that researchers analyzed 10 popular assets and ranked them in 7 different criteria. All assets were given a score of… Read More

March 22, 2021 @ 11:29 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

      Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), an international financial hub in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia (MEASA) region, has received approval to join the World Alliance of International Financial Centers (WAIFC). WAIFC is described as a non-profit association registered in Belgium,… Read More

March 22, 2021 @ 10:16 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Kaleyra, Inc. (NYSE:KLR), a Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS), announced on Monday it has formed a new agreement with Visa in the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Kaleyra reported that as part of the agreement its innovation lab, k-lab, will be creating communication… Read More

March 22, 2021 @ 7:03 am By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd portfolio company SaNOtize Research & Development Corp. has received interim approval to sell its COVID-19 treatment Nitric Oxide Nasal Spray (NONS). The spray is said to protect users from viruses that enter the body through the upper nasal pathways. The spray will be sold… Read More

March 21, 2021 @ 8:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Payoneer Inc., the global payment and commerce-enabling platform, has published a blog post in which it argues that freelancing or the gig economy is “here to stay.” Kareen Friedman (from Payoneer), who focuses on the freelance and service providers sector, writes that it should be… Read More

March 20, 2021 @ 7:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Qatar Development Bank (QDB) and M7, a creative start-up hub that’s operated under Qatar Museums, are introducing Scale7, which is a business incubator for MENA region entrepreneurs. Scale 7 aims to support a creative and artistic ecosystem. The initiative will help Qatari entrepreneurs, local… Read More

March 20, 2021 @ 4:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Divvy, a modern payment and expense management platform for businesses, which notably secured $165 million through its Series D funding round, has published a blog post that looks into how small businesses can settle their tax payments. Divvy confirms in its blog post that the… Read More

March 20, 2021 @ 3:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE:MA) reveals that February 2021 was yet another huge month for digital commerce, which increased 54.7% year-over-year (YOY). Mastercard pointed out that despite the “inclement weather” felt across many parts of the country this past month, US retail sales (excluding automotive and gasoline) surged… Read More

March 20, 2021 @ 1:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa confirms that a year into the Coronavirus pandemic, digital payments continue to “keep money moving.” The company’s latest report reveals that consumer behavior is changing how businesses sell or market their products in a post-COVID environment. Visa notes that due to the COVID outbreak,… Read More

March 19, 2021 @ 3:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Research and Insights team at PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) notes that when the COVID-19 pandemic began, Jennifer Vaughan started noticing a visible change in her business’s customer base. Usually, Jennifer’s “high-end” paper store, Mulberry Paper and More, had been appealing to professional artists. However, Jennifer… Read More

March 19, 2021 @ 3:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

uBiome was once a promising biotech startup that generated over $350,000 from over 2,500 individuals in a rewards offering in 2013, The company went on to raise capital on AngelList. Soon, uBiome was accepted into Y Combinator. Almost immediately uBiome raised a Series A funding… Read More

March 19, 2021 @ 1:55 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Noyo, a U.S.-based API platform for improving the speed and accuracy of health insurance data exchange, announced earlier this week the launch of its new API product, Noyo Sync, which enables automated, flexible, and embeddable benefits data. According to Noyo, the product allows users to… Read More

March 19, 2021 @ 10:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brian Brooks, Former Acting Head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), has now joined the board of Spring Labs, a firm that develops innovative tech for exchanging data securely and in an anonymous manner via a shared blockchain or distributed ledger… Read More

March 18, 2021 @ 10:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Miami-headquartered JAG Insurance has reportedly issued its very first policy using cryptocurrency. JAG Insurance Group, which is well-known for being a digital tech pioneer and challenging the standards of the insurance industry, has decided to take its first steps into the crypto-asset space by issuing… Read More

March 18, 2021 @ 4:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

The US Federal Government is in the process of sending helicopter money around the country. Individuals may receive $1400. Families could receive more. The stimulus money (or stimy) phases out as incomes go higher. So what will Americans do with this windfall money? A recent… Read More

March 17, 2021 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Six New Hampshire residents are reportedly facing federal indictment because of an elaborate scheme that allowed people to exchange over $10 million for digital currencies like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). The US District Court indictment alleges that the co-conspirators had tricked or deceived financial… Read More