Global

February 5, 2020 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The addition of Molo, UK’s first, all-digital mortgage lender, Underpinned, a career management platform for freelance workers, and accounting services provider Paystream to the Starling Business Marketplace will take the digital bank’s business integrations count to 14. The integrations aim to build on services that… Read More

February 5, 2020 @ 8:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Regulatory technology (Regtech) firm Encompass has reportedly won a £2 million grant from the Scottish Enterprise, in order to create an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced engine to complement its existing know-your-customer (KYC) product offering. The latest funding is part of an initiative with a total value… Read More

February 5, 2020 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital Asset, the firm behind the open-source DAML smart contract programming language, has reportedly acquired investments from Salesforce Ventures and Samsung Venture Investment Corp, as part of the second closing of its Series C financing round. As mentioned on Digital Asset’s official website, the company… Read More

February 4, 2020 @ 11:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Barclaycard, a major brand for credit cards at Barclays, a leading London-based multinational investment bank and financial services company, has confirmed a deal in which it will reportedly become the preferred payments partner for 60,000 e-commerce retailers hosted on BigCommerce’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) online platform. The… Read More

February 4, 2020 @ 5:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stephen Pair, CEO at BitPay, a leading cryptocurrency payments processor, recently revealed that the platform will begin supporting additional digital assets. Pai confirmed that BitPay was also looking into integrating the Lighting Network (LN), a protocol for a layer-two payments network aimed at expediting Bitcoin… Read More

February 4, 2020 @ 11:02 am By JD Alois  |  

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, has published a new report on artificial intelligence (AI) and the future of financial services. CCAF is the leading research entity covering the global ecosystem of Fintech from online capital… Read More

February 4, 2020 @ 8:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Security Tokens and Real Estate. Recently the University of Oxford published a paper on digital assets and real estate. Entitled, “Tokenization: the Future of Real Estate Investment?“, the document believes there is potential in tokenizing the popular asset class but also sees certain challenges. For… Read More

February 4, 2020 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Enterprise-grade distributed ledger tech (DLT) platform Insolar is launching its own main network (mainnet), while introducing its native Insolar Coin (XNS), in order to replace its previously used Ethereum-based digital token INS. Following the successful trial period of its testnet last year, Insolar has introduced… Read More

February 4, 2020 @ 7:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Asset management firm Mindful Wealth has re-domiciled in Singapore to benefit from the new “Variable Capital Companies” (VCC) framework. Mindful Wealth currently claims over $600 million in assets under management (AUM). The company originally started in Switzerland providing wealth management and other corporate services. Mindful… Read More

February 4, 2020 @ 7:19 am By JD Alois  |  

Targeting global growth, Bankable, a “Banking as a Service” provider, has formed a partnership with Visa, according to a company release. Bankable said it seeks to provide Visa’s U.S. clients, including corporate customers, access to its real-time and modular banking solutions. Bankable says this will… Read More

February 4, 2020 @ 7:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-headquartered digital real estate investment platform BrickVest has reportedly been acquired by Patrizia, a Germany-based firm. Details regarding the terms of the deal and the amount paid for the purchase have not been shared publicly. Established in 2014, BrickVest allows customers to invest in pre-screened… Read More

February 4, 2020 @ 6:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dublin-headquartered regulatory planning firm Corlytics is reportedly set to book a €10 million capital injection by the end of Q1 2020. This, after the firm has recorded its most successful financial year. The trained artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform for regulation leverages human expertise and combines… Read More

February 3, 2020 @ 11:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ajay Banga, CEO at payments giant Mastercard, recently talked about why his company decided to leave the controversial Facebook-led Libra global payments and stablecoin project. Banga claims his firm doesn’t quite understand Libra’s business model. He told the Financial Times: “When you don’t understand how… Read More

February 3, 2020 @ 10:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Federal Bank, a private bank with a branch network of 1,251 branches and about 2000 ATMs, has issued a release that it has opened its first “digital branch” called “Fed-e-Studio .” This digital branch was announced at an event last week at Rajarhat Bhatenda. Dr…. Read More

February 3, 2020 @ 7:31 pm By Timothy Li  |  

Part 6 of a series of articles covering the fast-emerging Fintech ecosystem in Latin America. When we look at Latin America’s Fintech scene, it conjures up memories of the U.S. Fintech evolution that took place during the past decade. Or perhaps, the past decade and… Read More

February 3, 2020 @ 3:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The fourth quarter of 2019 saw Russia’s citizens perform more digital payments than transacting with cash (for the first time ever), state-owned Sberbank confirmed. Moscow-based Sberbank conducted the market research as part of its SberData initiative, revealing that Russian residents performed 50.4% of total transfers… Read More

February 3, 2020 @ 11:32 am By JD Alois  |  

iSTOX, a blockchain-based platform, is now the first digital securities issuance, custody, and trading platform, licensed in Singapore. iSTOX recently “graduated” from the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Fintech Sandbox program and has received regulatory approval to operate and provide digital asset issuance and trading. This… Read More

February 3, 2020 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based OakNorth, a digital bank for small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) that offers business and property loans, has confirmed that OIMIO, a commercial real estate SME-focused lender, has established operations in the Netherlands. The lending firm will be launching a supplier’s credit analysis and monitoring… Read More

February 3, 2020 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jumio, an established provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced end-to-end identity verification and authentication services, has teamed up with CIMB Bank Philippines’ all-digital bank to offer a convenient and user-friendly digital onboarding solution to Filipinos. Having completed its first full year of business operations, CIMB Bank… Read More

February 3, 2020 @ 8:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Denis Pitcher, Chief Fintech advisor to the Premier of Bermuda, confirmed recently that the island country’s government has been focusing on encouraging blockchain and crypto adoption. Bermuda aims to enable greater financial inclusion with its national virtual currency in an area where residents are reportedly… Read More