General News

April 11, 2019 @ 3:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), the leading research group on all things Fintech, has launched a new Fintech collaboration network in partnership with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC). According to a release by the UK government,… Read More

April 11, 2019 @ 11:51 am By JD Alois  |  

The 7th annual LendIt Fintech took place this week in San Francisco and once again financial innovators from around the world showed up to listen and learn about disruption taking place in Fintech. As part of the annual conference, LendIt announced 21 winners for its… Read More

April 11, 2019 @ 8:17 am By JD Alois  |  

The Crypto Valley Association (CVA), Switzerland’s advocacy group for the advancement of digital assets, has announced the speakers for this year’s Crypto Valley Conference. The Association reports that representatives from IBM, Dfinity, University College London, LiquidityNetwork, ConsenSys, NEO, R3, the European Commission, Swiss National Bank,… Read More

April 10, 2019 @ 9:53 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

J.P. Morgan announced earlier this week it is advancing its real-time payments offering by launching SEPA Instant in Europe. The banking group reported that with this latest offering it is continuing on its mission to drive efficiency and add critical value to our clients’ business…. Read More

April 8, 2019 @ 11:07 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Sarah John, Chief Cashier at the Bank of England told Currency Conference 2019 attendees in Dubai this week that use of cash is declining in the UK but that bank notes are not yet passé. John cited statistics showing that cash use dropped from 61%… Read More

April 8, 2019 @ 3:44 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Millennium Trust Company, a provider of alternative asset custody solutions to institutions, advisors, and individuals, announced on Monday the launch of a new digital Application Programming Interface (API) functionality, which enables investment platforms and advisor systems to seamlessly integrate with Millennium Trust’s custody services. Millennium… Read More

April 8, 2019 @ 9:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Fresh from its new partnership with Nationwide, BlueVine, a provider of online working capital financing for small and medium-sized businesses, is adding term loan financing to its suite of online financing solutions. The BlueVine Term Loan seeks to provide small and medium-sized business owners fast… Read More

April 8, 2019 @ 7:39 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Standard Chartered Bank announced on Monday it has officially opened its Africa eXellerator Innovation Hub in Kenya. According to the digital bank, the innovation hub will serve asa platform to collaborated with fintechs in Kenya, as well as the broader African region to drive innovation… Read More

April 7, 2019 @ 9:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

 Plug and Play announced today the 150 startups participating in their Summer 2019 accelerator batches. Entrepreneurs from each startup will take part in one of the following programs, which are Enterprise 2.0, Health, Insurtech, Internet of Things, Mobility, Real Estate & Construction, and Travel &… Read More

April 5, 2019 @ 8:10 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdfunded brewery company BrewDog announced this week it has formed a partnership with British Airways to offer a new unique craft beer that will be available on the airline’s flights. The company noted its new brew, Speedbird 100, is cleared for take-off on May 1st…. Read More

April 4, 2019 @ 10:38 am By Cali Haan  |  

By most estimates, “cryptojacking”  and “shadow mining,” the secret mining of cryptocurrencies on other people’s machines, are increasing as hackers have started to favour them over confrontational ransomware and other hacks. But Security Information and Event Management firm Exabeam says that most IT professionals they… Read More

April 4, 2019 @ 8:30 am By JD Alois  |  

JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is out with his annual shareholder letter, a missive that is widely read not only for its insight into the future of JPM but for Dimon’s thoughts on other issues. As one would expect, Dimon covered a wide swath… Read More

April 4, 2019 @ 7:30 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

KoreConX announced on Thursday that 3iQ Corp. (3iQ), a Canada-based regulated multi crypto asset portfolio manager, has chosen the KoreProtocol for its Digital Securities Offering. According to KoreConX, 3iQ is claimed to be the first Canadian investment fund manager to fully comply with the terms and… Read More

April 4, 2019 @ 4:51 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Fintech innovator Fenixera has launched its reporting and tracking platform. Fenixera, a global debt recovery platform tool designed to protect people from having to write-off international debt, is based in Norway. The platform account software aims to enable users to check people’s credit and payment history… Read More

April 2, 2019 @ 10:21 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A number of high-profile ransomware attacks in the early months of this year have put a spotlight on the importance of firms working to prevent them. In March, operations at Norwegian aluminum producer Norsk Hydro and American chemical companies Hexion and Momentive were interrupted by… Read More

April 2, 2019 @ 8:30 pm By Cali Haan  |  

41% of cyber attacks are deployed against healthcare entities, Canadian Underwriter reports, whereas only 20% of attacks are leveled at financial firms. The information comes from specialist insurer Beazley in its Beazley 2019 Breach Briefing. The reason healthcare targets are preferred, says Beazley, is because unlike… Read More

April 2, 2019 @ 11:43 am By Erin Hobey  |  

€1 million….now in sight!  JIVR, the UK-based foldable, electric and chainless bike brand, has exceeded €944,670 during its Seedrs campaign with the confidence of more than 252 investors. To recap, funding from Seedrs will be used to establish a comprehensive sales channel mix of B2C, B2B and… Read More

April 2, 2019 @ 11:12 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Tokeny, the Luxembourg-based fintech compliant tokenization platform delivering institutional grade solutions in the issuance, lifecycle management and secondary trading of security tokens, has partnered with global law firm DLA Piper. Hedera Hashgraph recently cited DLA Piper as first members of the Hedera Hashgraph Governing Council,… Read More

April 1, 2019 @ 8:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK) has announced a “significant expansion” of its annual Hong Kong Fintech Week. Hong Kong has emerged as a leading center for financial innovation. Supported by government officials, Fintech disruption has gained velocity.  Just recently, Hong Kong announced the approval of the… Read More

March 29, 2019 @ 3:32 am By Cali Haan  |  

Operations at the American chemical firms Hexion and Momentive were disrupted March 12th when company computer systems were locked up by LockerGoga ransomware, Motherboard reports. LockerGoga is the same ransomware experts believe was used to cripple operations at American and European aluminum smelters run by… Read More