Global

October 22, 2019 @ 2:34 am By JD Alois  |  

creditshelf Aktiengesellschaft, a peer to peer lender providing financing options to German SMEs, says that more loans have been originated on its platform in the 9 months of 2019 than all of 2018. According to creditshelf, loan volume through the past 9 months stands at… Read More

October 22, 2019 @ 1:03 am By Cali Haan  |  

NOTE TO READERS: In the days following publication of this article, Oleg Bakatanov, CEO of Depos Technologies OU, “a company developing dBonds protocol and Depos (DUSD) stablecoin,” responded to our inquiry and stated that his company is, “not a part of Deutsche Bank team…doesn’t cooperate with… Read More

October 21, 2019 @ 1:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), part of the Judge School of Business at Cambridge University, has partnered with the World Bank to publish a report on the global regulation of alternative finance and innovative Fintech firms. According to the new report, the regulation… Read More

October 21, 2019 @ 11:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Today, 12 Canadian Fintech firms are in the UK on a 5-day trade mission led by the UK Department of Internation Trade (DIT). The visit is part of an initiative in support of these Fintechs seeking to enter the UK market. According to DIT, the… Read More

October 21, 2019 @ 10:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Goodbox has hit its funding goal of £1 million on Seedrs and now over funding. The funding round is part of a larger Series A round from earlier this year. Crowd investors are receiving the same terms as the institutional round. Goodbox is raising equity… Read More

October 21, 2019 @ 8:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, is topping far more established innovation hotbeds when it comes to tech startups and greenfield Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) projects, on a per capita basis. According to the Financial Times’ fDi Intelligence division, Vilnius beat out Tel Aviv, Singapore and… Read More

October 21, 2019 @ 1:20 am By JD Alois  |  

EY recently published its annual Fintech Adoption Index ranking 27 different countries on their willingness to part with traditional financial services and migrate to the new, shiny of digital financial services. Or, perhaps, Fintech services have simply filled a void providing a service where previously… Read More

October 20, 2019 @ 4:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zürich-based Apiax, a Fintech firm that transforms complex regulatory requirements into digital compliance rules, has raised $6.6 million through a Series A investment round. Founded in 2017, Apiax is a Swiss Regtech firm that builds and provides tools to transpose written regulations into binary, machine-readable… Read More

October 20, 2019 @ 3:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A group of automobile manufacturers will reportedly be testing a blockchain-enabled vehicle identification network in November.  According to the Nikkei Asian Review, BMW, General Motors, Honda, Ford and Renault have partnered with the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI) in order to develop a system that… Read More

October 20, 2019 @ 3:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Singapore division of CIMB Bank Berhad carried out a structured trade finance transaction on a blockchain-based and internet of things (IoT) platform, developed by iTrust. The transaction reportedly involved the financing of Chinese imported dairy products and may generate yearly transaction flows of approximately… Read More

October 20, 2019 @ 12:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bittrex International, the Malta-based international division of the US-headquartered digital asset exchange Bittrex, will reportedly halt operations in Venezuela and 30 other nations. Bittrex’s management sent an email to its Venezuelan customers, noting that the exchange operator would suspend accounts and trading access to the… Read More

October 20, 2019 @ 12:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The global Regtech market was valued at $2.45 billion in 2017 and is projected to reach an estimated $12.43 billion by 2026, at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.51%. Regtech refers to set of tools developed to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of… Read More

October 19, 2019 @ 7:00 pm By Xu Gao  |  

The 2019 Global Fintech Venture Competition Launched in Beijing On October 12th, the “2019 Global Fintech Venture Competition” (hereinafter referred to as “the Venture Competition”) was officially launched at the WDK Fintech Exchange Center in Beijing. The Venture Competition is a high-level fintech competition initiated… Read More

October 19, 2019 @ 3:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Archax, an institutional digital securities exchange, announced on October 18 that it had teamed up with enterprise blockchain developer R3. The partnership between the two companies involves using R3’s Corda Enterprise software to manage post-trade activities on Archax’s platform. Archax provides a globally accessible… Read More

October 19, 2019 @ 2:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

For the fourth year in a row, EY Australia has partnered with Fintech Australia to publish a “census” on the status of the Fintech industry. The census is the result of a survey of 120 different Aussie Fintechs. In this year’s report, EY states that… Read More

October 19, 2019 @ 11:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Proportunity, a Fintech firm for first-time property buyers, has raised £2 million (appr. $2.6 million) through a seed investment round in order to fund the development of its home equity lending platform. Proportunity’s management claims they’re the only help-to-buy challenger in the market that… Read More

October 19, 2019 @ 11:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Finland-based Municipality Finance (MuniFin), a credit institution that offers financial services to municipalities and central government-subsidized housing production, has chosen Temenos, a company that develops enterprise software for banks.  MuniFin will reportedly be using Temenos’ flagship core banking system T24 Transact. Following an “exhaustive” selection… Read More

October 19, 2019 @ 1:51 am By Cali Haan  |  

Dr. Matthias Lehmann, chair for civil law, private international law and international business law at the University of Bonn, has published a paper proposing localized legal solutions to problems posed by transnational distributed ledgers (DLT) and blockchains like Bitcoin. According to a blog post regarding… Read More

October 18, 2019 @ 7:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Santander InnoVentures, Santander Group’s venture capital fund focused on financial technology investments, is leading a €35 million (appr. $38.7 million) investment round in Berlin-based CrossLend, a cross-border marketplace lending platform for making pan-European investments. The Series B funding round in CrossLend includes investments from… Read More

October 18, 2019 @ 6:59 pm By Roman Buzko and Mariam Gordiashvili  |  

The new law regulating crowdfunding in Russia will enter into force on January 1, 2020. Existing platforms must comply by July 1, 2020. Federal Law No. 259-FZ “On Investments Through Investment Platforms and Certain Amendments to Other Laws of the Russian Federation” dated August 2,… Read More