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April 15, 2024 @ 10:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

dLocal, the cross-border payment platform, is announcing its partnership with payroll and payments platform Papaya Global. The new partnership sees the two platforms join forces to “enable companies to easily handle workforce payments globally, including across emerging markets.” The partnership between dLocal and Papaya Global… Read More

April 15, 2024 @ 10:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Investment platform TWINO is announcing the suspension of lending operations in the Asia-Pacific region. TWINO says that it is reaching out to provide clients “with an important update regarding TWINO Group’s lending operations in Vietnam and the Philippines, part of the joint venture with VIA… Read More

April 15, 2024 @ 10:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HeavyFinance has recently shared its latest platform performance review for the month of March 2024. In March, a total of €843,000 was “invested and distributed across 29 agricultural projects” available on the HeavyFinance platform. As of the end of March 2024, a significant sum of… Read More

April 15, 2024 @ 9:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Debitum Investments has reportedly received an “A level” taxpayer rating from the Latvian State Revenue Service. The team at Debitum further noted that as part of the long-term strategy platform have launched a new financial instrument – Debitum Notes. Debitium also mentioned in a blog… Read More

April 15, 2024 @ 9:49 am By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd, a global online investment platform, commented on the success of the Iron Dome following the unprecedented attack by Iran, which launched hundreds of missiles and drones on Israel. The weekend attack by Iran was in response to claims that Israel bombed its consulate in… Read More

April 15, 2024 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Investment platform Bondora has shared its latest performance and statistics for March 2024. The European investment platform has shared key insights into their ongoing growth and performance. In March 2024, Bondora claims that it welcomed 2,077 people who reportedly “created their investor accounts with them.”… Read More

April 15, 2024 @ 7:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

bolt, the insurtech with the country’s largest technology-enabled insurance exchange, announced the appointment of Matt More as CFO for North America. More joins from ThoughtSpot, a leader in enterprise business intelligence SaaS, “where he was VP of Finance and Strategy.” In this role, he built… Read More

April 15, 2024 @ 7:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DynamEat explains that it helps restaurants boost their profit by applying dynamic pricing and smart menu strategies. DynamEat has so far raised 62% (€169,481 from 38 investors) of its fundraising €270,005 target with 27 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding campaign, carried out via Seedrs…. Read More

April 15, 2024 @ 7:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European megafunds raised record amounts of capital in 2023, according to an update from PitchBook. Most notably, the top five funds contributed “to a record concentration of over half the year’s fundraising figure in Europe, with CVC Capital Partners raising a global record €26 billion… Read More

April 14, 2024 @ 11:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With summer fast approaching, Lloyds Bank is warning hopeful holidaymakers they could fall victim to a scam when booking a trip. These scams have reportedly “risen 7% over the past year, with people losing £765 on average, with those aged 35 to 44 – often… Read More

April 14, 2024 @ 11:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New data from one of Europe’s largest small business lenders, iwoca, reveals how SMEs are exploring social media influencers as an avenue for marketing. More than two-thirds of SME owners (70%) are “active on social media platforms, and one in eight (13%) have used an… Read More

April 14, 2024 @ 10:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cyberattacks have more than doubled since the pandemic, according to a recent update shared by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). While companies have historically suffered relatively modest direct losses from cyberattacks, some have “experienced a much heavier toll,” the IMF report notes. US credit reporting… Read More

April 14, 2024 @ 4:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at OKX are pleased to announce their investment in Tomo, a Web3 social finance (SocialFi) protocol. This investment underpins OKX‘s commitment to “supporting innovative blockchain technology and Web3 social platforms that redefine the way users connect and interact with each other online.” Tomo’s… Read More

April 14, 2024 @ 3:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNY Mellon (NYSE:BK), the global financial services company, is collaborating with Accenture (NYSE:ACN), a professional services company, “to modernize financial services offerings with an initial focus on data management and analytics product development and delivery.” The companies will use technologies to unleash the power of… Read More

April 14, 2024 @ 2:12 pm By Michael Wong  |  

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced that Bulgarian economist Kristalina Georgieva has been selected to serve a second five-year term as its managing director, beginning October 1. The IMF’s executive board praised Georgieva for her “strong and agile leadership,” which has steered the institution through… Read More

April 14, 2024 @ 1:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Barclays has reportedly led Funding Xchange’s (FXE) Series B round, which is said to be open to a number of FXE clients. The fundraising is bringing together key investors and will aim to enhance FXE and its ability to drive ecosystem adoption. This reportedly includes… Read More

April 14, 2024 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pactio, the digital infrastructure for private markets, has raised $14 million (£11 million) in a Series A round led by EQT Ventures. Private equity industry insiders and tech angels also participated in the oversubscribed round, “including former Stripe Europe CEO Matt Henderson and Volt founder… Read More

April 14, 2024 @ 10:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Satago, a Fintech that provides Working Capital solutions, and mmob, the universal API adaptor, announced the launch of a new partnership. This collaboration enables lenders and corporates “to embed Satago’s flexible Invoice Finance and Cash Flow solutions, using mmob’s hyper-efficient integration capabilities.” Designed to take… Read More

April 13, 2024 @ 8:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LeadBlock Bitpanda Ventures (LBV), a €50 million EU investment fund, and Mantle, a burgeoning on-chain ecosystem built around the high-performance modular Ethereum layer-2 (L2) scaling solution Mantle Network and Ether liquid staking protocol Mantle LSP, have announced a strategic collaboration for Europe. The partnership comes… Read More

April 13, 2024 @ 8:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The CMA has outlined 3 key risks to effective competition on AI Foundation Models and has set out plans for further action in the market. The move from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) follows its initial report on AI Foundation Models (FMs) last year…. Read More