Global

February 17, 2020 @ 10:10 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based digital bank Starling Bank is investing in P2P loans originated on the Zopa platform, according to a report in AltFi. The write-up quotes a Starling Bank representative that explained the arrangement: “Starling is in a unique position among neobanks of having a very… Read More

February 17, 2020 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

William Russell, the Lord Mayor of the city of London, noted recently that the UK is planning to support Qatar in becoming a leading financial technology (Fintech) hub in the Middle East. Russell praised the new legislation and regulations being developed by the Qatari government… Read More

February 17, 2020 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dubai Multi Commodities Center (DMCC), an organization formed in 2002 by Dubai’s government to offer physical, market and financial infrastructure needed to establish a hub for global commodities trade, has committed to strategic membership agreement with Al Khaleej Sugar and Universa Blockchain.  According to the… Read More

February 17, 2020 @ 8:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Propifi, a UK-based peer-to-peer lending platform, announced on Monday the launch fo its new innovative Finance ISA (IFISA) eligible investment opportunity. Propifi revealed that this is the first investment opportunity launched through its P2P platform that is eligible for IFISA investment and will enable individuals… Read More

February 17, 2020 @ 7:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The London Stock Exchange Group-backed Fintech firm Nivaura introduced its highly-anticipated product, Aurora, on February 14 to an audience of around 150 financial market professionals including Dealers, Issuers, IPAs, Exchanges, Rating Agencies and CSDs. Avtar Sehra, CEO and chief product architect at Nivaura, noted: “The… Read More

February 16, 2020 @ 6:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hong Kong-headquartered Blue Cross, a major insurance services provider, is set to introduce its Travel Smart MultiTrip Insurance Package, which will allow clients to customize their travel insurance plans. The company has also introduced the Flight Delay Cash Allowance Extension, which reportedly comes with an… Read More

February 16, 2020 @ 6:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

SPiCE, the first tokenized VC fund, has partnered with Two Prime – a Fintech that focuses on the financial application of crypto in the real economy. Founded by Dr. Marc Fleury and Alexander S. Blum, Two Prime’s inaugural “FF Token,” the FF1, will be officially… Read More

February 16, 2020 @ 5:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ila, a Bahrain-based digital, mobile-only banking entity, has confirmed that it has appointed Mohamed Al Maraj as the company’s new chief executive. Established in November 2019 as a wholly-owned retail subsidiary of Bank ABC (the Arab Banking Corporation), a global bank with headquarters in the… Read More

February 16, 2020 @ 10:58 am By Timothy Li  |  

Part 7 of a series of articles covering the fast-emerging Fintech ecosystem in Latin America. First I want to thank FinnoSummit and LendIt and all the attendees to give us a glimpse of what’s coming to this all so important part of the world, Latin… Read More

February 16, 2020 @ 10:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

India-based CoinDCX, a leading digital asset exchange and liquidity aggregator, recently confirmed that it has teamed up with major multinational crypto-asset trading platform for futures and derivatives, OKEx.  As noted in a press release shared with Crowdfund Insider: “With this partnership, OKEx will gain access… Read More

February 15, 2020 @ 10:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

bZX, a leading Ethereum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol has reportedly been exploited. Although the exact amount of Ether (ETH) lost due to the exploit has not been confirmed, Kyle Kristner, co-founder at bZx, says “a portion of ETH [was] lost.” As reported by The… Read More

February 15, 2020 @ 9:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Swedbank AB, a Nordic-Baltic banking group headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, has reportedly chosen payment services and infrastructure company SIA to help it send instant payments via the EBA Clearing’s RT1 platform. Swedbank provides retail banking, asset management, and various other financial services. Swedbank has more than… Read More

February 14, 2020 @ 10:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Smartlands, a blockchain based Fintech that lays claim to tokenizing the first real estate offering in the UK, says it will revise and expand its legal framework by basing future projects on Lichtenstein law. Lichtenstein has created digital asset friendly regulation as it attempts to… Read More

February 14, 2020 @ 9:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of the Suterusu protocol are presently working on a scalable, privacy-preserving second layer solution for secure digital asset management. Any crypto-asset, including Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH), may soon be used to conduct fully anonymous transactions using the Suterusu protocol. Suterusu’s technology, ZK-ConSNARK,… Read More

February 14, 2020 @ 9:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Liquid.com, a globally accessible digital asset exchange, confirmed on February 11, 2020, that Two Prime’s inaugural FF Token, the FF1, will be officially introduced and be available for trading “exclusively” on the exchange, beginning February 25, 2020. According to Liquid’s website, the company has facilitated… Read More

February 14, 2020 @ 5:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

IHS Markit has confirmed that it has teamed up with Credit Benchmark in order to use the company’s credit risk analytics tools for its securities financing solution, which handles performance measurement and reporting for multinational lending platforms. Mark C. Faulkner, co-founder at Credit Benchmark, noted… Read More

February 14, 2020 @ 2:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bengalaru-based Innoviti, a payment technology developer, has confirmed that it’s updating its “self-healing” technology, which is supported by dual-SIM cards across retail point-of-sales (PoS) terminals in India.  Innoviti’s latest technology has been developed to de-risk the processing of payments made at PoS terminals that are… Read More

February 14, 2020 @ 1:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SBM Bank India recently confirmed that it has teamed up with Karbon in order to introduce the Karbon Card, which is notably one of the nation’s first corporate credit card designed specifically for startups or early-stage firms. All corporate credit cards issued will come with… Read More

February 14, 2020 @ 1:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

IOTA Foundation, a non-profit entity behind the ongoing development of the leading IOTA distributed network, confirmed on February 13, 2020, that electronic funds belonging to the users of the Trinity wallet software had been stolen. The Germany-headquartered organization revealed on Wednesday that it had turned… Read More

February 14, 2020 @ 12:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Fintech Paysafe, a specialized payments service provider, recently appointed Sujit Unni as the firm’s CTO in order to strengthen its core technology management team. Unni will lead Paysafe’s technology strategy and will be expected to assist with the design, and architecture of Paysafe’s end-to-end… Read More