Global

April 28, 2023 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitpanda are pleased to announce that Raiffeisenlandesbank NÖ-Wien, which forms part of Austria’s major banking group, has become the first major traditional bank in the European Union “to move into digital assets through a planned collaboration with Bitpanda Technology Solutions.” Since launching their digital Investment-as-a-Service… Read More

April 28, 2023 @ 8:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TransferMate, the provider of B2B payments infrastructure as a service, has been granted authorization as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) by the Central Bank of Ireland. Acquiring EMI authorization allows TransferMate “to offer an extended service to their customers and partners.” It means customers can… Read More

April 28, 2023 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Wayhome, the Gradual Homeownership provider, announced that they have closed a Series A equity funding round of £8 million. The firm’s investment round was reportedly led “by existing investors Allianz X (Stripe, WeLab, CLARK), Augmentum Fintech (interactive investor, Tide, Zopa) and new funders Volution, Love… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 10:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FinanZero, the online credit marketplace in Brazil, recently announced that it has raised USD 1.5 million in a funding round. The proceeds from the investment round will be “used towards strengthening FinanZero’s position in the market through product development, specifically developing new online financing products… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 5:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Continuing to build its footprint as a leading global acquirer, global financial technology firm FIS (NYSE: FIS) has announced its Worldpay merchant business will be “expanding its payment processing capabilities into the United Arab Emirates (UAE) this year.” Worldpay has “secured a category II payment… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 12:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

Irish Fintech Accelerated Payments has announced the laung of a trade finance product called AP Trade Finance (APTF). Accelerated Payments is a digital working capital platform with offices in Dublin, London, Toronto, and Florida. The company offers access to credit due to the strength of… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 12:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Strike, which claims to be one of the world’s leading digital payments platforms built on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, announced the expansion of “Send Globally” to Guatemala, bringing its cross-border payment service to Latin America. In 2022, Latin America and the Caribbean “received more than $140… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 11:14 am By JD Alois  |  

  Tokeny, a Luxembourg-based tokenization platform, has revealed a partnership with Artory to “unlock the  $1.7 trillion art market through the market tokenization, enabling greater access and liquidity to the asset class. Fine art is said to have outperformed the S&P 500 for over 20… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 10:56 am By JD Alois  |  

BTSE has added Fireblocks to its platform. BTSE is a white-label digital asset exchange based in Tortola. Fireblocks is a well-known Switzerland-based digital asset custody provider. BTSE claims to offer “state-of-the-art infrastructure” able to process over one million transactions per second. BTSE states that Fireblocks… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 10:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As the world becomes more digitized, auction houses are turning towards decentralized technology to improve the auction process. Decentralized Finance (DeFi) technology is one such innovation that could transform the auction industry, bringing transparency, security, and accessibility to the table. With the rise of blockchain… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 9:56 am By JD Alois  |  

MERJ Exchange, a Seychelles-based regulated exchange, has signed an Introducing Broker Referral Agreement with Boustead Securities, a FINRA regulated broker-dealer. The deal will allow US-based investors to trade dual-listed securities on Upstream – part of MERJ. Upstream is a retail trading platform powered by Horizon… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Palantir Technologies Inc., a software and services company which specializes in big data analysis, plans “to expand its operations in Lithuania, after entering into a strategic partnership, together with the Ministry of Defense of Lithuania.” Both parties are planning “to collaborate in developing new digital… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 11:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TreviPay, the global B2B payments and invoicing network, has partnered with Mirakl, the SaaS solution chosen by enterprises worldwide to manage their marketplace and dropship business, “to provide a centralized financing, invoicing and payment solution for manufacturers, distributors and group purchasing organizations operating marketplace and… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dukascopy Bank and Clear Junction have partnered in order “to provide licensed electronic money institutions and payment institutions with a one-stop solution that satisfies their banking and payment needs.” The partnership demonstrates “how different organisations can work to complement one another.” For some time now,… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 10:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Buddy, the budgeting app for Gen Zers with 3M users worldwide, has integrated with Plaid, an open finance service provider, in order “to provide Buddy users with the ability to securely connect their financial accounts and automatically track their spending.” Buddy claims it is “entirely… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 10:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

InComm Payments, a payments technology company, today announced the launch of InComm Payments Brazil Technology Ltda., an information technology (IT) hub dedicated to developing payments solutions “for industries including retail, financial services, mobile payments and more.” Based in Fortaleza, the IT hub “expands InComm Payments’ Brazil… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 3:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial Recovery Technologies (FRT), the global securities class actions recovery provider, announced it will power the North American class action filing and recovery service for BNY Mellon‘s custody clients, “including broader access to comprehensive non-U.S. alerts for global markets.” This expands upon the alliance that… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 11:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Estateguru, an online investing and originating platform that serves the European market, is reporting a “stable and success” first quarter of the year. Estategura says it funded 178 projects with a loan volume of €23 million and hitting a new milestone of over €700 million… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 9:12 am By JD Alois  |  

TS Imagine has connected with European prime broker for digital assets – Crypto Finance. TS Imagine is a “cross-asset” trading platform that provides financial solutions for sophisticated investors. The company said it aims to offer institutional clients greater connectivity and liquidity in cryptocurrency trading with the… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

IXOPAY, an independent payment orchestration provider, and EBANX, a Fintech company that specializes in international payments in rising markets, have announced a partnership. Together the partners will “focus on providing access to local payment solutions for global brands and offering local payment methods to consumers,… Read More