Global

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

January 27, 2020 @ 3:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Linked Finance, a peer-to-peer lending platform based in Ireland, has launched five-year unsecured business loans for Irish SMEs, according to a company release. Linked Finance will now offer unsecured loans of up to €300,000 to Irish companies “with more complex funding requirements.” The company describes… Read More

January 27, 2020 @ 3:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Cardlay, a Danish Fintech company, provides a white-label frontend for banks and their corporate clients. Cardlay helps companies automate business processes, including applications, integrated and real-time travel expense management, and more. Last October, Cardlay raised $10 million in funding while announcing a partnership with Eurocard…. Read More

January 26, 2020 @ 4:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

It seems like there’s some good news finally for freelancers based in Pakistan. Global payments company Payoneer has teamed up with local firm JazzCash, a mobile payment provider, in order to allow Pakistani residents to receive funds from their Payoneer accounts directly into their JazzCash… Read More

January 26, 2020 @ 3:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank of England (BoE) is reportedly looking for a cloud build partner, which will be a part of its One Bank Service Transformation strategy. The UK’s reserve bank notes that it is planning to work with “an experienced partner to assist in design, construction… Read More

January 25, 2020 @ 12:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, Crowdfund Insider covered a report on the UK and how European financial services firms were being compelled to open new offices in light of Brexit. While a good amount of digital ink has covered the number of firms shuttering offices or lowering headcount… Read More

January 25, 2020 @ 11:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Fintech Hive has announced the introduction of their investment-focused accelerator program for startups and other small companies in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) regions. The Fintech Hive Scale Up program will provide partnership and investment opportunities for… Read More

January 24, 2020 @ 2:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas has teamed up with Tink in order to improve its account aggregation, payment initiation and personal money management services. The partnership between the two companies will involve Tink working with BNP Paribas’ Italy-based retail network Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL). Tink’s solutions will… Read More

January 24, 2020 @ 1:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Deutsche Bundesbank and Deutsche Börse have joined forces in publishing a study on the uses of distributed ledger technology (DLT) or blockchain. The bank and exchange believe that “DLT solutions can deliver substantial benefits” and “tokenized securities and baskets substantially improve collateral mobility.” The pro-blockchain… Read More

January 24, 2020 @ 12:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New Jersey-based NICE Actimize, a subsidiary of Israel-headquartered NICE Ltd, recently confirmed that CipherTrace, a leading provider of digital currency intelligence and blockchain security, has joined the X-Sight Marketplace – which is an established platform for combating financial crime and ensuring compliance. The X-Sight Marketplace… Read More

January 24, 2020 @ 12:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Barclays Bank has teamed up with Fintech accelerator graduate and Insurtech platform Nimbla, which provides small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) the option to take out insurance against individual invoices, instead of the whole book. By using Nimbla’s platform, clients will be able to insure individual… Read More

January 24, 2020 @ 11:50 am By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Conduct Authority’s Executive Director of Strategy and Competition, Christopher Woolard, has been selected as the Interim Chief Executive of the FCA. HM Treasury announced the appointment today as current FCA Chief Executive Andrew Bailey has been tapped to take over the role of… Read More

January 24, 2020 @ 11:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Digital Asset Human Capital Trends Report was recently commissioned by the Blockchain Association, an organization of active industry participants who promote efforts related to innovation and the collaboration needed to support US leadership of the crypto-assets sector. The companies included in the research sample… Read More

January 24, 2020 @ 11:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MoneyGram International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MGI), a leading international peer-to-peer (P2P) payments and money transfer service provider, revealed on January 23 that it has teamed up with the Suez Canal Bank, an established financial institution that will allow MoneyGram clients to send funds directly to the… Read More

January 24, 2020 @ 9:36 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global blockchain payments provider BitPay announced on Thursday it has formed a fiat-to-crypto transaction platform Simplex to give Bitpay mobile app users the ability to purchase Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies directly in-app using a credit card. BitPay reported that through the partnership users may now… Read More

January 24, 2020 @ 6:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube is the largest investment crowdfunding platform in the UK and the first platform to launch in the robust UK crowdfunding market – a market that in many ways leads the rest of the world. Founded in 2011, Crowdcube has helped to raise growth capital… Read More

January 24, 2020 @ 6:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (BoE) will reportedly be running a public/private forum that will go into the relevant technical and public policy issues related to bank adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies and software…. Read More

January 23, 2020 @ 9:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Poland-based Fintech firm Autenti has secured $4.48 million in funding from three banks including Alior Bank, BNP Paribas and PKO Bank Polski. Autenti offers a platform for digital agreement signing and provides a workflow for electronic documents. The firm’s management says that the capital will… Read More

January 23, 2020 @ 9:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Funding Circle (LSE:FCH) posted an update on investor returns earlier today. Currently, the online lender offers two different investment opportunities for investors: Conservative or Balanced. The update effectively included no new news as projected rates remained the same as previously expected: Balanced: 4.5% to 6.5%… Read More

January 23, 2020 @ 8:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Payments giant Visa is reportedly set to take its “access to cash” program industry-wide by teaming up with several financial institutions, in order to provide high street retailers in remote areas a fee for handling over the counter (OTC) cashback transactions. The launch of the… Read More