Global

June 24, 2020 @ 7:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Global tech firm Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd has announced a partnership between Samsung Pay, the digital banking Fintech Curve, and Mastercard to launch the Samsung Pay Card. Curve is a Fintech service that allows users to manage and consolidate cards into a single app providing… Read More

June 24, 2020 @ 7:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brazil’s reserve bank has reportedly instructed Mastercard and Visa to suspend processing transactions on behalf of WhatsApp. As reported on June 15, 2020, the Facebook-owned WhatsApp messaging platform began facilitating payments in Brazil. However, the Central Bank of Brazil (BC) has now taken action against… Read More

June 24, 2020 @ 7:41 am By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest, a property finance marketplace, has introduced a range of updates to its Buy-to-Let product including several special offers available for a limited time.  In a release, LendInvest said it is now offering its two year fixed 75% LTV product at a rate of 3.49%,… Read More

June 24, 2020 @ 12:41 am By JD Alois  |  

The European Union initiated a consultation on its retail payments strategy last April. The deadline for comments is this Friday, June 26, 2020. The consultation addresses the digitization of payments and the belief that Europe needs a “strategic vision to ensure that consumers and companies… Read More

June 23, 2020 @ 11:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Egyptian Fintech firm MoneyFellows has secured $4 million in capital through a Series A round from Paris-based global VC company Partech and Sawari Ventures, an international VC investor. The investment has come after MoneyFellows acquired more than $1 million in funding via a pre-series A… Read More

June 23, 2020 @ 11:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

Binance China Blockchain Institute, the research institute of crypto exchange Binance, has announced a partnership with Xinyuan Group (NYSE:XIN), a Chinese real estate company working on incorporating blockchain technology in the global real estate industry including in New York City. Xinyuan Group previously launched “UPRETS,” a… Read More

June 23, 2020 @ 10:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ampleforth, a crypto-asset protocol for “oraclized” money, revealed on June 23, 2020, that it will introduce a new Liquidity Incentive Program, Geyser, which will target Uniswap 2.0, a widely-used non-custodial Ethereum token exchange. As mentioned in a press release shared with Crowdfund Insider: “After providing… Read More

June 23, 2020 @ 9:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Max Chuard, CEO at Temenos (SIX: TEMN), a Switzerland-based banking software company, notes that the COVID-19 outbreak has accelerated the demand for the latest banking technologies and other cost-cutting performance efficiencies. Chuard says Cloud technologies and AI could potentially help banks weather significant socio-economic changes… Read More

June 23, 2020 @ 8:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum based Opyn, an options issuance platform, has secured $2.16 million in capital via a round led by Dragonfly Capital, a cross-border crypto-asset investment firm. Other investors in Opyn’s latest round included 1kx, an early-stage token fund focused on remittances, computation, storage, prediction, and the… Read More

June 23, 2020 @ 7:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

After an extensive regulatory journey, Zopa has been awarded a full bank  license as it transitions from a top online lender to a Fintech offering a growing portfolio of financial services. Zopa Bank will sit alongside its existing peer to peer business (Zopa Limited), as part… Read More

June 23, 2020 @ 5:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A new type of user reward scheme to distribute the Compound governance tokens (COMP) has led to a significant increase in the amount of value locked into the leading decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol. Traders using Compound are now “farming” COMP tokens. Notably, the total value… Read More

June 23, 2020 @ 3:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

nCino is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) as the company has filed an S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) indicating its intent to trade shares on an exchange. nCino is a Wilmington, North Carolina based Fintech that offers a cloud banking… Read More

June 23, 2020 @ 11:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) announced on Tuesday it has entered into an agreement to acquire Finicity, a real-time financial data and insights access provider providing open banking tools – an area of growing importance for financial services firms.. Mastercard revealed the purchase price was $825 million,… Read More

June 23, 2020 @ 9:53 am By JD Alois  |  

HM Treasury’s weekly update on the COVID-19 business support schemes indicates that lenders, both traditional banks and Fintechs, have provided a growing amount of financing to both smaller and larger firms impacted by the Coronavirus. The main government programs include; the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan… Read More

June 23, 2020 @ 9:25 am By JD Alois  |  

The British Business Bank has distributed data on the Future Fund indicating £236.2 million worth of convertible loans have been approved for 252 companies. Launched on May 20, 2020, the Future Fund is a government plan designed to aid entrepreneurial young firms that did not… Read More

June 23, 2020 @ 8:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Markus Braun, former CEO of Wirecard (WDI:DE) has been arrested by Munich authorities according to multiple reports. Braun apparently turned himself into local police as the Fintech attempts to unravel what exactly happened to the missing €1.9 billion. Last week, Wirecard halted a scheduled financial… Read More

June 23, 2020 @ 8:08 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

PayPal and Venmo are planning to roll out cryptocurrency buying and selling options through their digital payment platforms, Coindesk reported on Monday. The media outlet revealed that although it is not confirmed which crypto will be offered, sources close to the project have stated they… Read More

June 23, 2020 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Landbay, a buy-to-let mortgage marketplace lender that provides various borrowing opportunities, has reportedly joined the Lender Exchange, in order to streamline its conveyancing process. Lender Exchange has been developed by Decision First. It aims to facilitate effective communication between lenders and solicitors. Lender Exchange’s… Read More

June 22, 2020 @ 11:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jemma Xu, co-founder and partner at RedBlock Capital, a provider of digital investment services with a presence in Asia, Australia, and the US, says that we now have many technologically advanced securities issuance platforms and secondary exchanges. However, she points out that technology alone doesn’t… Read More

June 22, 2020 @ 10:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sparrow, an options trading platform has raised USD$ 3.5 million in a Series A funding round, according to a company release. The round was led by HDR Group, the parent company of BitMEX – a crypto exchange. The funding also included participation from Signum Capital, Du… Read More