Global

May 26, 2022 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Weave (NYSE: WEAV), the “all-in-one” customer communication platform for small business, has signed a multi-year integration partnership with Sunbit, the Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) technology “for everyday needs and services.” Sunbit’s technology will “power Buy Now, Pay Later solutions for healthcare practices across the… Read More

May 26, 2022 @ 7:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  London-based Nickel Digital Asset Management (Nickel), a regulated crypto hedge fund manager, has “outperformed the S&P500 since January 2020, despite the initial strong performance of equities during the COVID period.” As noted in an update shared with CI, its Digital Asset Arbitrage Fund had… Read More

May 26, 2022 @ 6:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New Zealand’s Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) service provider Laybuy recently revealed that it has appointed risk management professional Jamie Byles as its Chief Risk Officer (CRO). In this position, which is reportedly a part of Laybuy’s senior leadership team and based in London, Jamie… Read More

May 26, 2022 @ 6:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Revolut is now entering the fast-growing spend management sector with a new in-app product that allows companies to issue payment cards with a quick tap and set up time and category-based spending limits. After the roll-out of Payroll for UK clients this February… Read More

May 26, 2022 @ 3:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zumo, the Edinburgh-based crypto wallet and payments platform, has announced the launch of Zumo Enterprise, its new B2B ‘Crypto-as-a-Service’ solution that “enables companies to offer crypto products and services to their customers.” The “first of its kind” in the UK, Zumo Enterprise is “the market’s… Read More

May 26, 2022 @ 1:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

RELAI, the savings and investment app, has secured €2,159,470 in capital as part of its latest funding round. After a strong private phase, which saw €1.2m invested by the likes of Redalpine, “more than 850 investors have joined the table, contributing an additional €970,000, surpassing… Read More

May 26, 2022 @ 12:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

International Insurtech, bolttech, has announced its partnership with one of Vietnam’s telecommunications network operators, Viettel Telecom. The partnership launches an insurance offering, “powered by bolttech’s insurance exchange platform, on Viettel’s customer app MyViettel with products including health, travel, home, car, and motorbike.” bolttech has cooperated… Read More

May 25, 2022 @ 10:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Babel Finance, the wholesale crypto financial services provider, recently announced the completion of a $80 million Series B financing round “at a valuation of $2 billion.” The main investors in this investment round “include Jeneration Capital and 10T Holdings, as well as existing shareholders Dragonfly… Read More

May 25, 2022 @ 3:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) recently unveiled three different initiatives in order to expand consultation with market/industry participants and various stakeholders on the design and development of the TNFD’s recommendations on nature-related risk and opportunity management…. Read More

May 25, 2022 @ 3:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Payoneer (NASDAQ: PAYO) has announced that John Caplan will become the company’s new CEO. Caplan is expected to operate as co-CEO until the end of 2023 at which time current CEO Scott Galit “will continue in a strategic role.” Payoneer is a global payments platform… Read More

May 25, 2022 @ 2:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mercado Bitcoin, which claims to be the largest exchange in Latin America, has teamed up with the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) in order to develop one of the nine projects selected for the LIFT Challenge Real Digital, “a collaborative environment carried out by the Central… Read More

May 25, 2022 @ 2:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With cybercrime expected to cost $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, innovating cybersecurity remains critical across industries “facing rapid digitization.” Mastercard (NYSE: MA) has announced the launch of new attack simulation and assessment platform Cyber Front, “enabled by a strategic minority investment in Picus Security.” The… Read More

May 25, 2022 @ 12:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a UK Credit Union “first,” Optimus Cards, the UK’s provider of white label card and banking solutions for traditional and new forms of currency, has introduces a flexible and “responsible” Credit Card product to Credit Unions at the Annual ABCUL conference. As mentioned in… Read More

May 25, 2022 @ 11:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lloyds Bank has teamed up with software provider Alfa in order to make it simpler for clients to use asset finance to manage their working capital. Managing capital properly, ensuring the appropriate balance between funding growth, increasing stock, and retaining funds for financial resilience, is… Read More

May 25, 2022 @ 10:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitfrost, the fintech ecosystem that supports financial institutions in their adoption and management of digital assets, announced its successful registration “as a Virtual Assets Service Provider (VASP) with the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC).” Now, Bitfrost can “provide clients with access to fiat-to-crypto, crypto-to-fiat and… Read More

May 25, 2022 @ 10:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global Blockchain Business Council – the international industry association for the blockchain technology ecosystem – has announced a merger with market standards association for the adoption of cryptocurrencies and digital assets, Global Digital Finance (GDF). The merger sees the two organizations “join their respective resources,… Read More

May 25, 2022 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Paysend, the international Fintech with 7 million clients, has announced that it has grown its customer base in the United States by 66% in the past 12 months, to more than 500,000. This growth has been “driven by recent expansions of Paysend’s cross-border money transfer… Read More

May 25, 2022 @ 10:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Onfido, the digital identity verification and authentication provider, has announced the expansion of its Real Identity Platform, “improving fraud accuracy by 54% and fully automated performance by 12x.” The platform “simplifies identity for everyone.” Now customers can “reduce the complexity of sourcing and managing multiple… Read More

May 25, 2022 @ 9:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Since the advent of computing in the 1940s, there has been a “major computing cycle” every 10-15 years, including PCs in the ‘80s, the internet in the ‘90s, and mobile computing in the ‘00s. The team at Andreessen Horowitz believes that blockchains will “power the… Read More

May 25, 2022 @ 9:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Yapily has partnered with B2B buy now – pay later (BNPL) provider Two, according to a statement from the company. Yapily, an Open Banking provider, explains that when a business chooses to pay with Two online using Yapily Data, Two can instantly retrieve the buyer’s… Read More