Global

November 14, 2022 @ 8:52 am By JD Alois  |  

DivideBuy, a UK-based point of sale (POS) credit provider, has announced a new partnership with payments platform Acquired.com. Acquired.com is a Visa and Mastercard accredited payment service provider as well as a Payment Initiation Service Provider (PISP) – regulated by the FCA, receiving its license… Read More

November 14, 2022 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

iCapital, the fintech platform driving access to alternative investments for the wealth management industry, announced the recent expansion and official opening of its new Lisbon office “as the company’s global hub for technology development and operations.” In the past 24 months, iCapital increased its global… Read More

November 14, 2022 @ 8:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

After expansive growth in both client base and product offerings, Addepar is pleased to announce “the continued growth of their European presence.” The opening of their London office “follows last year’s expansion in Edinburgh.” CEO Eric Poirier said: “We’re excited to see this addition to our… Read More

November 14, 2022 @ 12:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinShares International Limited, which claims to be Europe’s largest and longest standing digital asset investment firm, “discloses its exposure to the FTX Exchange, while confirming that the Group has no exposure to FTX’s sister company, Alameda Research.” The ability to withdraw funds from FTX was… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 11:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Last month, PeerBerry marked its five years of operations. The PeerBerry platform enters its sixth year of activities “with 61,174 verified investors and an outstanding portfolio of EUR 97 million.” In October, PeerBerry investors “funded EUR 46,5 million of loans. 1140 new investors joined the… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Mintos has shared their latest Insight report, which looks at the alternative lending market of Mintos’ home country: Latvia. Forming part of Northern Europe’s Baltic region, Latvia is “a relatively small EU country with a modest population of 1.9 million.” As a… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 11:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Uphold, a digital money platform, has announced the launch of its new debit card for UK customers that pays rates of “up to 4% rewards in XRP.” Unlike other comparable cards, the Uphold Card will “not charge non-sterling transaction fees, making it ideal for travel… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 10:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Originally coined in 2015 by Chris Messina, conversational commerce has become “an increasingly familiar term in the communications and eCommerce markets,” according to an update from Juniper Research. It refers to “the intersection of messaging apps and online retail.” Juniper Research defines conversational commerce as:… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 10:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wayhome has raised 102% (£3,087,566) of its £3,000,001 target from 448 investors via its crowdfunding campaign, carried out via Seedrs. There are now (at the time of writing) 20 days left in this sale. According to the Wayhome team, they aim to offer “a new… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 5:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Connect 2022, Europe’s Fintech event for the entire ecosystem, recently released its 2022 Industry Benchmark Report, Fintech in Flux: Thriving in the Age of Uncertainty, showing that customers “remain the biggest focus, with 86 per cent of respondents investing in AI to stay competitive.”… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 5:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

As details of the FTX collapse continue to emerge, criticism has turned into a pile-on in regard to Sam Bankman-Fried’s mismanagement of the crypto exchange and affiliated entities, including his hedge fund Alameda Research. Bankman-Fried is said to be in the Bahamas, where authorities are… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 4:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hilary Wiek, CFA, CAIA Lead Analyst, Fund Strategies & Sustainable Investing at Pitchbook, notes that through the first quarter of 2022, one-year private fund performance was still “at historically high levels, as more muted performance in Q1 2022 was still overcome by three quarters of… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 4:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

European financing platform Debitum notes that its partner company Triple Dragon – an “innovative,” “fast-growing,” specialist lender in the gaming and mobile app industries – in December 2022 will mark their 6th year anniversary. During these years Triple Dragon have reportedly “managed not only to… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 1:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

YouWrk, which claims it is recruitment that “works for everyone,” blending the “best” of digital and human, with Stripe-powered technology and “hands on account management,” has raised 95% (£143,344.58) of its £150,000 target from 87 investors with 9 days left (at the time of writing)… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 12:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

It’s been a time of “great change” in the UK, with political events unfolding alongside global economic themes, including high inflation and rising interest rates, the team at PensionBee notes. According to PensionBee, there’s “an interconnected relationship between inflation and interest rates; often when one… Read More

November 12, 2022 @ 3:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Securities Commission of The Bahamas (the Commission) took action “to freeze assets of FTX Digital Markets and related parties.” The Commission also “suspended the registration and applied to the Supreme Court of The Bahamas for the appointment of a provisional liquidator of FTX Digital… Read More

November 12, 2022 @ 3:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank of Russia proposes to discuss possible circulation of digital assets “at exchange trading, harmonization of approaches to their taxation with traditional financial instruments, conditions for acquiring digital assets by individual institutional investors, establishment of the accounting procedure for such investments, as well as… Read More

November 12, 2022 @ 9:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Insult upon injury, FTX is now dealing with “unauthorized transactions” that have led to the theft of crypto as FTX moves to place all crypto in cold storage. Ryne Miller, FTX.us GC, appeared to confirm the hack in a series of Tweets. https://twitter.com/_Ryne_Miller/status/1591326796305530880?s=20&t=gT0NTB2Hnmugn-deop6-gA   Elliptic… Read More

November 11, 2022 @ 10:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

CapitalRise has financed an £8.5 million loan for the acquisition and development of a detached 13,000 sq. ft house on the private Wentworth Estate in Virginia Water. CapitalRise notes that the new detached house on the plot has an estimated sales price of £16 million… Read More

November 11, 2022 @ 3:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

SEBA Bank, a regulated entity based in Switzerland, has been recognized as offering the ETP of the Year at the Swiss ETF Awards 2023. The bank’s SEBA Crypto Asset Select Index ETP (SEBAX) was acknowledged for the award. Founded in April 2018, SEBA Bank offers… Read More