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Beeline Targets £800K on Seedrs, Tops £1 Million

Beeline is raising growth capital on Seedrs – seeking £1 million. As of today, Beeline has raised over £800,000 and is well on its way to achieving its funding objective. According to the offering page, Beeline is raising equity capital at a pre-money valuation of… Read More

UK: Can the new PM Liz Truss Save Businesses? Digital Transformation Can
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As firms battle with reduced revenue, Freddie Digby, CCO of Adsum, stresses that halting your investment in tech should be the last thing a business should be considering ahead of a recession The identity of the nation’s next Prime Minister was just one of many… Read More

Credix Raises $11.25 Million, Builds Future of Global Credit Markets with Blockchain Powered Platform

Credix, a Brazilian Fintech, has raised $11.25 million in Series A funding, according to a corporate statement. The Credix funding round was led by Motive Partners’ Early Stage fund and ParaFi Capital. Other investors include Valor Capital Group, Victory Park Capital, MGG Investment Group, Circle… Read More

Identity Verification Firm Ondato Introduces Virtual Branch Service

Ondato,​​ a KYC and AML firm that offers video-based ID verification systems to banking institutions as part of its techy, has introduced a virtual branch service that supports physical, digital and hybrid banking platforms with providing clients with virtual face-to-face appointments. The solution has the… Read More

Easy4Cloud, Fabrick to Support Open Banking in Italy and Spain

Easy4Cloud, which conducts operations in Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain and the US, digitizing different business areas and simplifying their management, has selected Fabrick to expand its offer and introduce BancheinCloud, a Business Intelligence platform for the aggregated management of Current Accounts through which personal,… Read More

Digital Financial Advisor Selma Secures Additional CHF 7M via Series A Extension

Digital financial advisor Selma Finance has reportedly extended its Series A round with an additional CHF 7 million. This investment has been led by TX Ventures, the venture capital division  of Swiss media firm TX Group, bringing its Series A fundraise to a total of… Read More

Zurich’s Skribble, a Digital Signature Specialist, Secures €10M to Expand Operations in Europe

Zurich-headquartered digital signature firm Skribble has finalized a EUR 10M round of funding. The firm’s investment round has been led by Munich’s Acton Capital Partners and Swiss VC company VI Partners. Contracts including employment and supplier agreements, along with delivery notes or tenders, have long… Read More

Crypto Basics: Things you can do with cryptocurrency today that you probably didn’t know

When you hear “crypto,” where does your mind go? Maybe you picture wealthy tech entrepreneurs or coders working in dark basements. Maybe it makes you think of scams, hacks, memes, or even Elon Musk. These are the stereotypes that mainstream media has ingrained in many… Read More

Open Banking Europe, Combines with Open Banking Exchange (OBE)

Open Banking Europe and Open Banking Exchange have combined to form a single group in pursuit of the benefits of open banking (open finance) technology. According to a statement from the new group, “subject matter experts and advisors to regulators, self-regulated organizations (SROs) and national… Read More

Insurtech Paper Acquires £152,615 from 102 Investors via Crowdcube

Paper, which claims that it is focused on bringing the insurance industry into the 21st century, has secured 101% (£152,615.27) of its £152,000.00 target (at the time of writing) via Crowdcube from 102 investors and has 16 days left in its crowdfunding campaign. Located in… Read More

Raftt Raises $5 Million Seed Round, Emerges from Stealth to Offer Development Sharing

Raftt, has raised a seed round of $5 Million. The funding was led by Aleph VC and Cardumen Capital. Raftt shared that a number of private investors participated in the round, including Ariel Maislos and Benny Schneider, Devtools angel investors; Adi Sharabani, founder of Skycure… Read More

PropertyLoop Secures £1,221,194 via Seedrs from 129 Investors

PropertyLoop, which enables landlords to find tenants, manage their properties & stay “compliant” all in one place, has raised 101% (£1,221,194) of its £1,200,000 target from 129 investors via Seedrs with 23 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding campaign at the time of writing. Located… Read More

UK’s PensionBee Reveals What Happened to Pensions in August 2022

After months of investments tumbling in a downward trend, July seemed “to mark a positive turning point for global markets,” according to an update from PensionBee. In fact, China was “the only leading stock market to fall in value.” This brief rebound had “created speculation… Read More

BXM Link AG, Part of BitMEX Group, Receives Membership Confirmation from Financial Services Standards Association in Switzerland

BXM Link AG has been granted membership confirmation from the Financial Services Standards Association (VQF), a Swiss self-regulatory organization (SRO) officially recognized by FINMA, the Federal Financial Market Supervisory Authority. The VQF membership granted to BXM Link AG, which will be “completely finalized soon after… Read More

Bondora Reports Increase in Investments, Originations

After having a slow month in June, investment and loan origination figures “rebounded and increased steadily by 18.7%,” according to an update from Bondora. This brought both totals to “a solid €15,333,326 in July.” This is encouraging to see at the start of Q3, the… Read More

Fintech Airwallex Reports that Aussie Businesses Are Charging Ahead with Global Expansion

Australian businesses have “ambitious” plans for international expansion, as new data from global fintech Airwallex reveals more than two thirds of small-to-medium Aussie businesses (69 per cent) plan “to be operating outside Australia by 2027.” Airwallex’s inaugural Australian Business Growth Index found “a third of… Read More

​Former DigitalX CEO Leigh Travers Joins Binance Australia as CEO

Binance Australia, the fiat-to-crypto platform for trading cryptocurrencies in Australian Dollars(AUD), announced the appointment of Leigh Travers, former DigitalX CEO and Director, as Chief Executive Officer. Travers has spent the last seven years “playing a pivotal role in building products and growing networks for DigitalX… Read More

Ajman Bank to Introduce Mastercard Touch Card, Driving Inclusion across UAE

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and Ajman Bank have strengthened their commitment to inclusion through a new initiative “designed to expand access to the digital economy.” The Touch Card is “an accessible payment card that will allow blind and partially sighted people to easily facilitate payments and… Read More

Over €45 Million of Loans Funded via PeerBerry in August

PeerBerry starts a new month with a solid portfolio of EUR 93 million. Over EUR 45 million of loans have been funded “on the PeerBerry platform in August, i.e., a 17% higher amount compared to the previous month.” 1152 new investors “have joined the PeerBerry… Read More

Over $2.3B Lost to Web3 Scams, Exploits in 2022, Over 377 Cyberattacks Reported

So far in 2022, $2,338,910,183 billion has been “lost to various scams and exploits in the Web3 world and a total of ~377 attacks recorded this year,” according to an update shared by CertiK. Just like in July, August has “seen the same number of… Read More

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