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October 22, 2017 @ 8:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the International Financial Centre in Abu Dhabi, has announced its second batch of Regulatory Laboratory or “Reglab” participants including 11 local and international Fintech startups. ADGM says the participants were selected from a pool of 22 applications for their Sandbox… Read More

October 22, 2017 @ 10:30 am By Xu Gao  |  

  The State Council of China Encourages the Development of a Smart Supply Chain The State Council on October 13, 2017, released a guideline on promoting the innovation and application of the supply chain. The document was aimed at establishing a smart supply chain system… Read More

October 21, 2017 @ 3:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Boston based law firm Block & Leviton has initiated an investigation into the Tezos Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Tezos raised about $232 million in one of the largest ICOs of all time several months back. Since the date of the ICO the price of Crypto… Read More

October 21, 2017 @ 11:50 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

FAT (Fresh. Authentic. Tasty.) Brands Inc., a global multi-brand restaurant franchising company, announced on Friday completed its Regulation A+ Initial Public Offering (IPO). The initiative, which raised $24 million throughthe sale of 2,000,000 shares priced at $12.00 per share, was launched earlier this summer and sought to achieve… Read More

October 21, 2017 @ 11:07 am By JD Alois  |  

The inaugural FinTech Abu Dhabi event will kick-off tomorrow (October 22nd) with a group of regional and international leaders from the global Fintech community. The creation of the event is in recognition of the growing importance of Fintech for financial centers and the financial services… Read More

October 21, 2017 @ 8:10 am By Therese Torris  |  

On October 20, at its 6th Convention in Vilnius, Lithuania, the European Crowdfunding Network (ECN), the European association of alternative finance platforms, released its Third Edition of the Review of Existing Regulations of crowdfunding and related alternative financing in the 28 countries of Europe, as… Read More

October 20, 2017 @ 3:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Everyone was talking about the Tezos Initial Coin Offering when it raised $232 million this past summer. Now everyone is talking about Tezos for all of the wrong reasons as an internal squabble has called the entire project into question. Tezos (ancient Greek for “smart-contract”), just… Read More

October 20, 2017 @ 3:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Alipay has partnered with Marqeta on real-time payment processing for millions of Chinese travelers visiting North America. Marqeta is an open API payment card issuing platform. Alipay, part of Alibaba, is the world’s leading third-party payment platform with more than 520 million users. Through the partnership,… Read More

October 20, 2017 @ 8:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Following the first full year of operations of the Fintech Sandbox, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a report outlining lessons learned. The UK has been the trailblazer in the concept of creating a regulatory sandbox to allow innovative financial firms to work… Read More

October 20, 2017 @ 7:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Portugal’s fastest growing digital only bank Banco BNI Europa and Parcela Já, a Portuguese Fintech firm, have partnered to launch an innovative solution for the Portuguese market to enable any retailer to offer its customers installment loans for any purchase without cost to the consumer…. Read More

October 20, 2017 @ 12:24 am By JD Alois  |  

The Australian Government has passed legislation crafted to remove the double taxation on cryptocurrencies. Industry participants welcomed the step as indicative of the maturing Fintech policy environment in Australia. The government has sought to position itself as Fintech friendly as the pace of financial innovation… Read More

October 19, 2017 @ 12:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Regtech platform iComplyICO has hired Piotr Piasecki, known in the crypto world as “ThePiachu” to serve as its “decentralization manager.” Piasecki is a grey beard in the Bitcoin community having wrote a master’s thesis on Bitcoin security in 2012 in the Technical University of Lodz… Read More

October 19, 2017 @ 12:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

LATTICE80, the world’s largest Fintech hub based in Singapore, will launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) at some point next year. Specific details on the ICO were not made available. LATTICE80 did disclose the ICO would only be made available in regulated environments including Singapore,… Read More

October 19, 2017 @ 11:25 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the International Financial Centre in Abu Dhabi, and Al Ansari Exchange, a leading foreign exchange and worldwide money transfer company in the UAE, have established a new partnership to promote and support the growth of FinTech industry in Abu Dhabi… Read More

October 19, 2017 @ 10:55 am By Erin Hobey  |  

PayKey, a fintech startup which aims to bridge the gap between banking and social, officially closed a $10 million Series B funding round, led by MizMaa, and joined by SBI Group, Digital Ventures – the fintech subsidiary of Siam Commercial Bank, SixThirty, Fintech71, The FinLab,… Read More

October 19, 2017 @ 9:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Sberbank and SWIFT have signed a memorandum of cooperation to develop and market Fintech products created and promoted by SWIFT. Sberbank is Russia’s largest bank and holds almost one third of aggregate Russian banking sector assets, it is the key lender to the national economy… Read More

October 18, 2017 @ 11:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) in New Zealand and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have re-affirmed their collaboration on the expanding opportunities in Fintech innovation. The two agencies originally entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) back in 2012. Since that time, much… Read More

October 18, 2017 @ 10:30 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

  Fausto Zanetton, the founder and CEO of Tifosy, is living a sports fan’s dream. He helps athletic clubs raise funds online by connecting them with their global fanbase.  He works with the some of the most revered clubs in the most celebrated stadiums in… Read More

October 18, 2017 @ 2:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Invesdor, a Finland based investment crowdfunding platform, has completed their 100th successfully funded offering.The platform the 100th funding round was completed by Seafire, a cross border IPO marketed in both Sweden and Finland. Seafire has been active in the Venture Capital space for the past 15… Read More

October 18, 2017 @ 10:29 am By JD Alois  |  

CBInsights has published their Q3 report on the global Fintech sector. According to their research, VC backed Fintech firms raised $4 billion into 278 deals during the quarter. While the number of deals held steady, the funding amount dipped from Q2 2017 which was a… Read More