Global

August 23, 2023 @ 7:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Zorrz, a UK-based Fintech that has created an AI-powered tool for credit analysis, has partnered with BNPL Sileon. Sileon is based in Sweden and specializes in “card-based Buy Now Pay Later” offerings. Sileon is listed on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market and has approximately… Read More

August 23, 2023 @ 7:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Steve Hulme, CFO at Zopa Bank, has shared an update on their financial performance. Last year was an “exceptionally” strong year for Zopa Bank that reportedly “laid the foundations for their strong profitable growth.” The firm’s management added that as people in the UK continued… Read More

August 23, 2023 @ 7:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Swift announced strong progress toward goals set by the G20 for enhancing cross-border payments, reporting that 89% of transactions processed on its network reach recipient banks within an hour. That’s ahead of speed targets “set by the Financial Stability Board to achieve one-hour processing for… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 9:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

USDC is launching on six new blockchains, and Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) says that it is increasing its support for stablecoins with an investment in Circle. Circle will reportedly “take full control over USDC issuance and governance.” Meanwhile, Coinbase and Circle will also “maintain a commercial relationship.”… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 9:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The International Cricket Council (ICC), together with official fintech infrastructure partner and real-time global payments platform, Nium, invited all cricket-loving technologists to enhance the world of cricket through innovation as part of the second edition of the Next In hackathon. The “Next In” hackathon is… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 5:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Institutional trading platform DMALINK has surpassed its funding target of £425,000 on Seedrs. UK-based DMALINK aims to service institutions trading in FX and crypto globally. According to the offering page, DMALINK is raising equity capital at a pre-money valuation of £17.3 million. The investment is… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 5:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Two of the most “trusted” brands in Web3 and payments integrate in order to help users explore crypto. The teams at PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) and Ledger are pleased to announce “an on-ramp integration with PayPal, allowing users to explore crypto in a convenient, simple and secure… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 2:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

EchoPay and Token.io have partnered to offer “account to account” (A2A) payments for wholesale merchants in the UK. Token.io is an open banking provider for the payments industry. The company reports that it processes payments for millions of merchants worldwide, including HSBC, Mastercard, BNP Paribas,… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 11:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The global economic slowdown has hit SaaS startups hard, according to an update from Capchase. With their customers looking for ways to reduce costs, many have “experienced increased churn, longer sales cycles, and tougher price negotiations.” But these effects have “not been felt evenly across… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 11:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, has invested in Delphinus Lab, an infrastructure provider that has implemented the first known open-source zkWASM virtual machine that supports trustless computation and application SDKs. zkWASM technology enables developers “to craft zero-knowledge (ZK) applications using… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European digital asset fund manager CoinShares (Nasdaq Stockholm: CS) has released its digital asset fund flows Weekly report. As noted in a blog post by the firm’s management, disappointment from SEC ETF decisions has impacted sentiment. According to the update from CoinShares, digital asset investment… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 10:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FluidAI, the fintech making tokenized market access more efficient for institutions, trading platforms, and retail investors, has announced a partnership with I-X, Imperial College London’s artificial intelligence (AI) initiative. It marks the “first-known” AI partnership at “a globally renowned university to be partially funded by… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 9:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Treasury Prime, a embedded banking software company, today announced its strategic partnership with Liberty Bank, N.A., a full-service commercial bank supporting markets across California, to offer innovative embedded banking solutions to customers in the fintech space. Through the collaboration, Liberty Bank, N.A. will work “with… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cynergy Bank announces that it has secured a £20 million Tier 2 capital facility from British Business Investments. The capital will be deployed “across Cynergy Bank and Cynergy Business Finance.” The new funding from British Business Investments, “a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the British Business… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 8:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Anthony Leutenegger, Head of Growth at Aragon, the DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) platform that grows with you and allows users to mint tokens, set governance, and easily onboard members, recently shared his views and insights with Crowdfund Insider. Anthony Leutenegger of Aragon discussed the launch… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 7:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Property finance platform LendInvest has added automatic decisions in principle (DiP) in its latest platform update, according to a note from the firm. The goal is to streamline the financing process for residential mortgages further. LendInvest says that the DiP process is applicable for applications… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 4:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FloQast, a provider of accounting workflow automation software created by accountants for accountants, released the results of its latest survey, Controller’s Guidebook – When Accountants Dare to Dream. This installation of FloQast’s research series “asked accountants to dream about how the profession might be different… Read More

August 21, 2023 @ 11:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Addepar recently held a discussion with Three Bridge Wealth Advisors and Navigator’s Rajiv Sharma. Recently, Addepar sat down with the co-founders of Three Bridge Wealth Advisors, Brett Sharkey and Eric Thurber, and product lead for Navigator, Rajiv Sharma, in order “to glean… Read More

August 21, 2023 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In order to make it possible for companies from all over the world to connect with Latin America to do business, Bitso —the financial services company powered by crypto in Latin America, with more than 1,500 institutional clients globally— announced “that it is expanding its… Read More

August 21, 2023 @ 8:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DLocal Limited (Nasdaq: DLO), a technology-first payments platform enabling global enterprise merchants to connect with billions of consumers in emerging markets,  announced earlier this month that Pedro Arnt has been “appointed as co-Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors of the company,… Read More