Global

June 10, 2020 @ 8:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Caixabank, a retail banking group in Spain, will be introducing facial recognition technology at 100 ATM locations across the country. The bank’s customers will be able to make withdrawals without having to enter their PIN codes. Facial recognition tech is also being used at the… Read More

June 10, 2020 @ 8:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lenders, Envestio and Kuetzal, have both filed for bankruptcy according to publicly available information. Last January, Crowdfund Insider reported that Envestio and Keutzal were both under duress with some observers calling the online lenders scams. Soon both peer to peer lenders had… Read More

June 10, 2020 @ 1:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

  The Libra Association continues its push to create a fortress management team with another high-profile appointment. Today, Libra has announced Sterling Daines as its Chief Compliance Officer. Daines is said to be an expert in financial crime and compliance. Currently, Daines is the Managing… Read More

June 10, 2020 @ 11:35 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global payments provider Verrency announced on Wednesday the launch of its new product feature “Pay Later.” According to Verrency, the feature enables bank customers to instantly move any regular purchase transaction to a longer-term installment payment plan. “Consumers can select to pay in multiple installments… Read More

June 10, 2020 @ 11:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Filecoin, a digital asset issuer that raised a whopping $205.8 million in 2017 in a Reg D coin offering, has announced an “incentivized testnet” designed to boost participation prior to the launch of its mainnet. Filecoin said a collaborative competition will run over a three… Read More

June 10, 2020 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  The ETC Group, a company established by experienced financial services professionals, announced on June 9, 2020 that they will be listing the world’s first “centrally cleared” Bitcoin ETC, BTCetc Bitcoin Exchange Traded Crypto – (BTCE) on Deutsche Börse’s XETRA platform. As noted in a… Read More

June 10, 2020 @ 7:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Seedrs, a leading UK based investment crowdfunding platform, has experienced five company exits since January. Meanwhile, platform investment has grown by 49% during 2019 – even during the midst of a global pandemic. Seedrs states that each exit has generated positive returns for investors. Seedrs’… Read More

June 10, 2020 @ 7:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London’s Fintech sector has been growing steadily during the pandemic as significantly more consumers begin to use all-digital financial services. Nearly 40% of VC investments made this year in London’s tech startups involved Fintech projects, according to a report from Tech Nation and Dealroom for… Read More

June 10, 2020 @ 6:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Switzerland will be introducing QR-bill payments by the end of this month. They will reportedly have a digitally readable code that will hold all payment data. QR-bill payments will be offered along with seven other existing paper-based payment slips that are used to process transactions…. Read More

June 9, 2020 @ 11:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Centralized digital asset exchanges such as CoinDCX and WazirX in India have been aggressively marketing their services to the nation’s residents, after the Supreme Court of India struck down the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) blanket ban on crypto-asset businesses in March 2020. Peer to… Read More

June 9, 2020 @ 10:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Philippines based Ayannah, an online financial services provider, and India’s payments firm Equity Capital Advisors (ECAPS) have merged their operations in order to provide cost-effective and more accessible financial services to South Asia and Southeast Asia’s growing middle-class population. The merged entity will aim to… Read More

June 9, 2020 @ 10:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

Prospa (ASX: PGL), an online lender serving Australian and New Zealand SMEs, has reported March quarter performance with $122.8 million of total loan originations, up 21.5% on the prior corresponding period, and $37.4 million of revenue – a 13% increase versus the same period the… Read More

June 9, 2020 @ 3:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

  Matrix Exchange Ltd., based in Abu Dhabi, has received a license to operate a “global virtual asset MTF and custody service.” The license is known as a “Financial Services Permission” (FSP), that allows holders to operate a regulated virtual asset Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF)… Read More

June 9, 2020 @ 12:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Paysafe Group, a global payments provider, announced on Monday the U.S. launch of its Skrill Money Transfer service. According to Paysafe, existing and new Skrill customers in the U.S. may now use the solution to transfer money for free to friends and family in Mexico,… Read More

June 9, 2020 @ 11:47 am By JD Alois  |  

DeFiner, a non-custodial peer-to-peer network for digital savings, loans, and payments, has integrated with Conflux Network, according to a company release. DeFiner and Conflux are said to be working toward the goal of supporting the development of DeFi on a global scale. DeFiner’s DeFi platform… Read More

June 9, 2020 @ 10:48 am By JD Alois  |  

  OurCrowd portfolio company, MigVax Corp., an Israeli company developing a vaccine for COVID-19, has selected Eyal Desheh as chairman of its board of directors. Desheh has previously served as an executive at Teva Pharmaceuticals, Check Point Software Technologies and currently is on the Board… Read More

June 9, 2020 @ 9:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digibee, a “no-code” integration platform, has reportedly secured $5 million in capital from GAA Investments and Laércio Albuquerque of Cisco Brazil. The Brazilian company says it will use the funds to enhance its technology stack and further expand its operations into the US. Notably, no-code… Read More

June 9, 2020 @ 9:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Molinari Media PBC has announced that Rachel Pether has joined Fintech.TV as a host in Abu Dhabi.  Pether will focus on financial, digital and sustainability-related topics in the United Arab Emirates and surrounding countries.  The company said she will be reporting on a weekly basis… Read More

June 9, 2020 @ 9:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Nium, a Singapore based Fintech platform, has become a Visa issuer in Australia due to its partnership in Visa’s Fintech Fast Track program. In a release, Nium explained that it will be able to provide end-to-end issuing, processing, and onboarding services, and shorten the lead… Read More

June 9, 2020 @ 8:35 am By JD Alois  |  

HM Treasury is out with its weekly update on COVID-19 lending schemes designed to support businesses impacted by the pandemic. According to the update, over 830,000 UK businesses have provided £34.9 billion through the three major government-backed lending programs. £3.6 billion has been granted to… Read More