Global

January 29, 2020 @ 5:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Belgium-headquartered SettleMint, an enterprise blockchain firm, has reportedly secured €1.9 million (appr. $2.04 million) through a new investment round. KPN Ventures and Medici Ventures took part in the firm’s latest funding, SettleMint’s management confirmed on January 28. Following the capital injection, the company is planning… Read More

January 29, 2020 @ 4:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Nashik Merchant’s Co-op Bank (NAMCO), a Maharashtra-headquartered co-operative bank has decided to go digital. The Indian co-op bank has reportedly teamed up with India Transact Services Limited (ITSL), in order to introduce point of sale (PoS) terminals for all of its merchant accounts. This… Read More

January 29, 2020 @ 4:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Switzerland has approved the first articles of incorporation hosted on blockchain, according to a note from advisory firm Andriotto Financial Services. Overfuture expects to have is class A shares hosted on blockchain as well as it moves forward with an initial public offering (IPO), or… Read More

January 29, 2020 @ 4:16 am By JD Alois  |  

BCB Group, a global digital financial services firm, has announced that its operating subsidiary, BCB Payments Limited, has received an Authorised Payment Institution (API) license from the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). BCB says this is the first and only crypto-focused Authorised Payment Institution. BCB… Read More

January 29, 2020 @ 4:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Philip Hammond, former Member of Parliament and Chancellor of the Exchequer, has reportedly joined SoftBank-backed Fintech firm OakNorth as the company continues to focus on its international expansion efforts. Hammond will be serving as a member of OakNorth’s advisory board, beginning on January 27. He… Read More

January 29, 2020 @ 3:48 am By JD Alois  |  

The Paris Fintech Forum, an annual conference bringing together Fintech leaders from around the world, will not take place in 2021, according to an announcement by founder and CEO Laurent Nizri who opened day 2 of the event with the news. Nizri told attendees his… Read More

January 29, 2020 @ 3:16 am By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd, the leading global investment crowdfunding platform, has announced a presentation by Dr. Ferid Murad, 1a 998 Nobel prize winner in medicine, to take place at its upcoming Global Investor Summit (Israel – February 13). Dr. Murad will address the topic of China’s Coronavirus and… Read More

January 29, 2020 @ 2:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The venture capital division of the most profitable firm in the world, Saudi Aramco, has reportedly invested $5 million in a blockchain-enabled oil trading platform, called Vakt. Vakt’s management confirmed the news on January 28, noting that Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures is now among its… Read More

January 29, 2020 @ 2:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

India-based consumer lending firm MoneyTap has secured around $7.14 million through a  Series B equity and debt financing round from investors, including Aquiline Technology Growth (ATG), RTP Global and Sequoia India. Additionally, several Korea and Japan-based investors took part in the round. Existing investors Prime… Read More

January 29, 2020 @ 2:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Funding Circle (LSE:FCH), an online lender servicing SMEs in the UK, US, Germany and the Netherlands, has securitized $252 million in US business loans, according to a note from the platform. This is Funding Circle’s 7th securitization and the second to take place in the… Read More

January 29, 2020 @ 2:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Urgent action is required in order to address a serious skills and talent shortage in the United Kingdom’s financial services sector, an independent review commissioned by HM Revenue has revealed. The review has issued a warning to industry participants stating that the UK’s financial sector… Read More

January 28, 2020 @ 3:41 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Western Union (NYSE: WU) announced on Tuesday that it and La Banque Postale, the banking subsidiary of France’s postal services’ operator, La Poste Group, is now planning to expand its digital payments. Western Union reported that the integration of its global cross-border, cross-currency digital money… Read More

January 28, 2020 @ 12:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Westpac-backed VC fund Reinventure aims to increase its presence in Asia’s Fintech economy. Reinventure has reportedly joined a $90 million investment round for Kredivo’s owner, Indonesia’s fast-growing “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) platform. Asia Growth Fund and Square Peg led Reinventure’s latest round for FinAccel,… Read More

January 28, 2020 @ 12:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Takepayments is the now the new company name for Payzone’s card terminal and electronic point of sale (EPOS) business. The firm has relaunched as a new Fintech company this year in order to disrupt the existing card payments industry and perhaps gain from the collective… Read More

January 28, 2020 @ 6:05 am By Therese Torris  |  

French Fintech Anaxago pioneered alternative finance by launching an equity crowdfunding platform in 2012. Profitable since year one, the company entered real estate investing in 2014. In 2018, it launched an asset management arm, Anaxago Capital. Not one to be standing still, the company’s co-founders, Joachim… Read More

January 28, 2020 @ 2:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Germany-based Fintech firm Heidelpay is reportedly seeking acquisitions and might launch an in initial public offering (IPO), according to its CEO, Mirko Huellemann. He recently stated: “An IPO is of course always an option for fresh capital.” Huellemann’s comments regarding the firm’s business plans are… Read More

January 28, 2020 @ 1:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Rnwl, an Insurtech created by serial entrepreneur Gonçalo de Vasconcelos who founded top UK crowdfunding platform SyndicateRoom, is having a dilemma. Committed to raising capital via the industry where he got his start, de Vasconcelos is it torn between using Seedrs or Crowdcube to raise… Read More

January 27, 2020 @ 12:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A newly launched Israeli virtual bank founded by experienced tech professionals Amnon Shashua and Marius Nacht will begin offering banking services to clients at some point next year, according to an update posted by the financial institution on January 27. As of this report, no… Read More

January 27, 2020 @ 7:00 am By Timothy Li  |  

Part 5 of a series of articles covering the fast-emerging Fintech ecosystem in Latin America. Technology is often the driver for massive social and economic change. We’ve seen this play out in North America, Asia, Africa and Europe. Particularly in Asia and Africa, the pervasiveness… Read More

January 27, 2020 @ 5:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Australia-based digital banks Xinja, Judo Bank and 86 400 have been attracting millions of dollars worth of savings from the nation’s banking clients after the introduction of their high interest rate accounts. Traditional industry players like ANZ, Westpac, NAB and Commonwealth Bank have reportedly lost… Read More