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Private Equity Fund Helenos Acquires Stake in FLEXIDEA, a European Invoice Factoring Platform

One of Debitum platform business partners, invoice factoring company FLEXIDEA, which operates in Latvia and Poland, has revealed that this summer, private equity fund HELENOS, managed by INPULSE INVESTMENT MANAGER (Brussels-based investment manager, Belgium), “acquired a 14,67% share in the capital of FLEXIDEA.” The acquisition… Read More

P2P Investments Generated Substantial Returns in 2022, while Crypto Recorded Largest Decline: Report

Economic uncertainty, which peaked in the first half of 2022, “challenged investors to reconsider finance instruments in terms of risk-reward ratio,” according to an update from Robo.cash. The analysts at Robo.cash recently commented on “popular” assets and how they have been performing since the beginning… Read More

Average Weekly Investments on Mintos Increased from €9M in July to €11M in August: Report

The team at Mintos has shared key insights, as part of their monthly publication that summarizes what’s been happening on the platform, including broader market activities. As noted in the update from Mintos, energy prices, inflation, and interest rates “continued to dominate the global investment… Read More

Mihkel Stamm from EstateGuru Explains How the Platform Facilitates Investments in Loans Secured by Real Estate

Mihkel Stamm, Chief Operating Officer at EstateGuru, recently commented on how his team supports a real estate lending platform with a focus on crowdfunding. Mihkel Stamm explained that they “mediate loans secured by real estate to the international investor community across Europe.” On one side are… Read More

Calastone Expands Operations in APAC with Regional HQ in Singapore

Calastone, which claims to be one of the largest global funds networks, announced the opening of their regional headquarters in Singapore, “underpinning their aggressive growth strategy to expand product offerings and footprint across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.” Calastone claims it has been “disrupting the investment… Read More

Equities Trading Platform Aquis Exchange Introduces Aquis Matching Pool (AMP)

Aquis Exchange, the pan-European large and mid-cap equities trading arm of Aquis Exchange PLC, is pleased to announce “the launch of its European dark trading venue, the Aquis Matching Pool (AMP) EU.” This marks the expansion of Aquis Exchange’s dark trading service, which was previously… Read More

Villyz Claims to be First French Crowdfunding Platform to Gain ECSP Approval

Villyz, an online investment platform based in Paris, says it has received approval to offer securities across the European Union under ECSPR (European Crowdfunding Service Provider Regulation). The new rules went into effect in November of 2021 allowing issuers to raise up to €5 million… Read More

Bitso Works with Africhange to Power Canada-Mexico Transfers

Top Latin American crypto exchange Bitso is collaborating with Africhange, an African-Canadian remittance platform that aims to enable payments cross-border from Canada to Mexico. According to a corporate statement, Africhange first focused on transfers between Canada and Nigeria – having processed around CAD 70 million…. Read More

Embedded Fintech: Inswitch Works with Binance Pay to Pursue Latam Market

Inswitch has partnered with Binance Pay to “improve their fintech solutions and offer Binance Pay to all merchants in Latin America.” Inswitch is an embedded Fintech platform aiming to help financial services provides to quickly provide digital offeerings. Binance Pay, part of Binance, is crypto… Read More

Binance Cuts Loose Competing Stablecoins, Will Convert to BUSD. Circle Indicates No Worries for USDC

Binance has cut loose competing stablecoins including USDC, USDP (Paxos), and TUSD (TrueUSD). USDC, issued by Circle is the second largest dollar-based stablecoin after USDT (Tether) and may receive the brunt of the change. In a corporate statement, Binance said it would “auto-convert” these stablecoins… Read More

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

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