Global

May 22, 2022 @ 11:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TrueLayer, which claims to be one of Europe’s “leading” open banking platforms, recently announced that The Credit Thing has successfully “implemented its recurring payments API and made the first consumer Variable Recurring Payments (VRP) transactions in the UK.” The Competition and Markets Authority has mandated… Read More

May 22, 2022 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

P2P consumer lending platforms are the “most stable” in their growth, while the business segment is “increasing faster than the others,” the team at Croatian lender Robo.cash claims. Geographically, sustainable development is “mainly shown” by Croatian and Italian platforms, the Robo.cash writes in a blog… Read More

May 22, 2022 @ 6:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

This past week, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Chairman Charles Randell reviewed the challenges of securities regulation in a speech delivered at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London.  The FCA has played a key and vital role in enabling Fintech innovation… Read More

May 22, 2022 @ 4:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

C6 Bank has announced that it recently added new equity investment options to its C6 Invest platform. From now on, clients who were already able to trade mini dollar and index (Ibovespa) contracts since August last year “can also trade full futures contracts on the… Read More

May 22, 2022 @ 2:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nayms recently revealed that it became one of the world’s “first” crypto-native insurance marketplaces to become “fully-regulated” in Bermuda. They now hold both the full Digital Asset Business Act license and Innovative General Business Insurance license, “allowing their insurance partners to conduct regulated insurance business… Read More

May 22, 2022 @ 2:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde hammered cryptocurrencies this past week during an interview with a Dutch broadcaster according to a report in Bloomberg. Lagarde, an EU official who has long expressed her interest in digital assets, is quoted stating: “My very humble assessment… Read More

May 22, 2022 @ 12:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Security Token Group (STG), a venture studio focused on building financial infrastructure to support the growth and development of the security token industry, is pleased to announce the closure of the company’s $3 million Series A round, “led by Blue Bay Ventures, and including strategic… Read More

May 21, 2022 @ 10:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nexi, the Paytech in Europe, and Piteco, an Italian software house offering corporate treasury management and financial planning solutions, entered a partnership enabling large corporations and SMEs to access a digital payment solution. The service provides firms with an additional line of credit, along with… Read More

May 21, 2022 @ 9:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Deutsche Bank (ETR: DBK) recently announced its partnership with FinLync, a global fintech company offering products that are “transforming corporate finance and treasury offices.” FinLync’s pre-built API integrations and SAP-embedded treasury applications will “enable corporate treasury and finance teams to connect to Deutsche Bank’s API… Read More

May 21, 2022 @ 1:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Following the Luna de-peg and the collapse of the UST stablecoin last week, Terra co-founder Do Kwon has unveiled a proposal for what he calls “the path forward.” This included forking the Terra chain “into a new chain without the algorithmic stablecoin, with the old… Read More

May 21, 2022 @ 3:32 am By JD Alois  |  

The Bundesverband Crowdfunding e.V. (the German Crowdfunding Association) and Financement Participatif France (the French Crowdfunding Association) have issued a statement reaffirming their desire that the transition period for European Crowdfunding Service Provider Regulation (ECSPR) be extended.  The announcement follows a statement by the European Securities… Read More

May 21, 2022 @ 3:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MarketFinance, the Fintech credit and payments firm, recently announced a debt raise from Deutsche Bank which the company will use to part “fund up to £100m of lending to support strong, well-managed SME businesses with their investment and working capital needs.” The announcement comes at… Read More

May 21, 2022 @ 2:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Linked Finance SME Confidence Index,  based on research conducted by Behaviours & Attitudes, is the bearer of bad news but insight that should not be unexpected. The Index indicates that business optimism has declined – impacted by geopolitical concerns and rising inflation The Index is… Read More

May 21, 2022 @ 2:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s Atom Bank has reportedly appointed Andy Sturrock as the banking platform’s new Chief Technologist. Andy joins Atom from BP plc, where he ran the firm’s Digital Consumer Channels and Offers teams, including the BPMe app and loyalty schemes. During his time working at BP,… Read More

May 21, 2022 @ 2:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

flatexDEGIRO AG, which claims to be Europe’s largest and “fastest-growing” retail online broker and Boerse Stuttgart Group, Europe’s sixth largest exchange group, recently announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a partnership in crypto trading. This will “give flatexDEGIRO customers direct access… Read More

May 20, 2022 @ 4:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the Cloud banking platform, recently announced that Mirabaud, the Swiss private bank, has selected Temenos “to move from a traditional on-premise system to a digital end-to-end wealth management platform on Temenos Banking Cloud.” With the generational transfer of wealth, new regulations and… Read More

May 20, 2022 @ 3:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Max Credit Cards and Bits of Gold have partnered to launch a Visa card in Israel called MaxBack Crypto. The new card is said to be the first crypto cashback card in Israel, designed to allow users to accumulate Bitcoin while they use the card…. Read More

May 20, 2022 @ 2:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fraugster, an AI payment intelligence company, has announced the launch of their latest product, Alternative Credit Decisions, which allows Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) and Enterprise merchants “to approve more customers without increasing credit risk.” There is a pressing need for a new approach because… Read More

May 20, 2022 @ 12:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Seedrs, a top European securities crowdfunding platform that operates an emerging secondary trading platform for securities issued on the platform, has posted an interesting write-up as to why investors trade on its secondary marketplace (and others). Recently, CI hosted a webinar on secondary transactions in… Read More

May 20, 2022 @ 11:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Klarna, a European Fintech that also operates in North America (and an HQ in Columbus, Ohio), is reporting topping 150 million consumers. Klarna is mainly a payments provider including buy now – pay later (BNPL) services that cater to both businesses and individuals. Klarna describes… Read More