Global

April 21, 2023 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex announced the launch of its global payments services in Canada. The launch will empower Canadian businesses “to tap into Airwallex’s global payments and financial platform, offering a faster, more cost-effective and transparent alternative to the traditional banking platform.” Businesses in Canada can now “access… Read More

April 20, 2023 @ 10:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LexisNexis Risk Solutions recently published a white paper produced by Aite-Novarica exploring the challenges in addressing sophisticated fraud threats “following increased digital adoption and consumers’ high expectations for online transactions.” The white paper, Multifaceted Fraud Attacks: Behavioral Biometrics as a Defensive Tool, explains “that most… Read More

April 20, 2023 @ 10:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global spending on financial market data and news “continued its decade-long growth streak with revenues jumping 4.7% to a record $37.3 billion in 2022.” Although real-time trading and data spending accounted “for the largest share of total revenues, strong demand for Pricing, Reference and Valuation… Read More

April 20, 2023 @ 11:26 am By JD Alois  |  

The European Parliament has adopted MiCA or Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation. This legislative development means the European digital asset (crypto-asset) will now have a bespoke regulatory framework, allowing all EU member states to provide services under a harmonized environment. After several delays, MiCA was approved… Read More

April 20, 2023 @ 11:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The United Kingdom’s three largest Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA) providers in the P2P lending sector that are reportedly open to new investors include Abundance, EasyMoney, Folk2Folk. This, according to a report from Peer2Peer Finance News. As noted in the update, P2P property lender EasyMoney comes… Read More

April 20, 2023 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Investments from continental Europe are available in 112 different countries throughout the world, according to an update from Robo.cash. On the continent, Spain reportedly ranks first as an investment-attractive сountry. Outside of Europe, the United States leads the way, the team at Robo.cash notes in… Read More

April 20, 2023 @ 8:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The digital bank N26 announced its new campaign, “Security Explained Simply” in order to help “decode the increasingly complex landscape of security in digital banking.” Each of the five updates featured in the campaign “discuss a separate security concept narrated by a character that relates… Read More

April 20, 2023 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

wefox, which claims to be one of the world’s leading Insurtech firms, has recently “appointed Nicholas Walker as Chief HR Officer, with immediate effect.” Julian Teicke, CEO and founder of wefox said: “With Nick joining us as Chief HR Officer we are not only adding… Read More

April 19, 2023 @ 10:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CaixaBank is marking this year’s “World Earth Day” with an innovative activity at its “all in one” centers in Ibiza, Burgos, Valencia, Barcelona and Madrid. All customers visiting these centers will be able “to participate in the metaverse in a memorable experience on caring for… Read More

April 19, 2023 @ 6:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Molo Finance says it is pleased to add Multi-Unit Freehold Blocks (MUFB) to their buy-to-let portfolio. As “savvy” landlords, Molo understands investors “continuously look for ways to boost profits, save money and maximise their investment.” That’s why they have “introduced MUFB to… Read More

April 19, 2023 @ 11:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Januar ApS is reporting that it has received its full Payment Institution license from the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (DFSA). Januar says that the license will enable it to serve clients across the European Economic Area (EEA). The company shares that it has received “significant interest:… Read More

April 19, 2023 @ 11:27 am By JD Alois  |  

Montonio and Episode Six have announced a new partnership to “bolster its open banking offering” in the Nordic region. Montonio is an e-commerce enabler providing payment links, card payments, automatic shipping label printing, and installment solutions. By incorporating Episode Six’s service, Montonio expects to reduce… Read More

April 19, 2023 @ 10:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tribe Capital, an established VC company launched back in 2018, is reportedly leading an investment round worth $250 million in order to assist FTX with re-establishing its virtual currency exchange. The latest move comes after the firm had filed for bankruptcy and the new CEO,… Read More

April 19, 2023 @ 10:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at SwissBorg, which makes crypto wealth management more accessible, says that they’ve achieved a lot with their Series A fundraising. In the last three months, SwissBorg claims they “rewrote the way fundraisers are done.” The firm says they “showed the world, once again,… Read More

April 19, 2023 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On April 13, 2023, NCR (NYSE: NCR) determined that a single data center outage that is impacting some functionality “for a subset of its commerce customers was caused by a cyber ransomware incident.” Upon such determination, NCR immediately “started contacting customers, enacted its cybersecurity protocol… Read More

April 19, 2023 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) is reportedly getting ready for an anticipated “years-long” court case with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This, according to a report from CNBC, which is citing comments from Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. It appears that this update has come after the… Read More

April 19, 2023 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

British Business Investments, a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, aims “to increase the supply and diversity of finance for smaller businesses across the UK by boosting the lending capacity of a range of finance providers.” Since it was established in 2014, British… Read More

April 18, 2023 @ 11:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PeerBerry recently revealed that its business partners are repaying €1.8 million worth of war-affected loans. PeerBerry writes in a blog post that under the current Group guarantee mechanism in 14 months of the war, the investment platform’s business partners have already repaid €36.8 million, or… Read More

April 18, 2023 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In today’s volatile environment, and with 84% of businesses expecting running costs to spike further this year1, SMEs are “increasingly reliant on real-time actionable insights to guide critical decisions.” Latest figures from Pulse, the “one-of-a-kind,” data-driven tool and resource hub for SMEs, from Nucleus Commercial… Read More

April 18, 2023 @ 10:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Debitum reveals that their Estonia-based partner – non-bank financing company Evergreen Capital which issues business loans to Estonian SMEs from the manufacturing and services sectors has “released a new ABS program with 26 underlying assets.” According to a blog post published by Debitum, the ABS… Read More