Global

April 25, 2022 @ 2:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Capitolis, the tech company reimagining capital markets, recently announced that it has grown its employee base by 50% “versus the same period last year as the company continues growing and scaling the business to meet customer demands and ongoing opportunities to innovate.” The investment in… Read More

April 25, 2022 @ 10:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LHV Group will reportedly be making an investment worth €1 million in the Estonian financial tech company Modular Technologies OÜ, trademark ‘Tuum’. The firm is developing a new generation banking platform that “offers the core system also to LHV UK Limited, a subsidiary of LHV… Read More

April 25, 2022 @ 9:56 am By JD Alois  |  

‘Winning with Fintech’ The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has called out Fintech as a key opportunity for the UK economy. In a speech today, CBI President Lord Bilimoria announced a new campaign to encourage more people to utilize Fintech and help boost the future… Read More

April 25, 2022 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pindrop, which claims to be an international leader in voice tech, recently shared its annual Voice Intelligence & Security Report “uncovering how companies might be accidentally inviting fraud, threat mongers from the dark web and bad actors better prepared to pass authentication.” As noted in… Read More

April 25, 2022 @ 12:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Every banking platform has an “important” duty to combat financial crime, and N26 claims that it is “no different.” As a fully-regulated bank, this is “not just a responsibility, but a legal requirement for [them] to do so,” the N26 team noted in a blog… Read More

April 24, 2022 @ 11:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Britannia Financial Group, a global financial services group with head offices in London, is pleased to confirm the acquisition of Alphaplate Ltd, a proprietary tech firm “specializing in cryptocurrency trading.” Alphaplate was established in 2017 and is “a systematic, quantitative market-maker predominately on top tier… Read More

April 24, 2022 @ 8:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra has confirmed the appointment of Isabel Fernandez, a “highly” regarded senior banking and technology executive, “to the role of EVP for the company’s Lending Business Unit, effective May 2022.” Isabel will be “part of Finastra’s recently expanded leadership team as the company pivots to… Read More

April 24, 2022 @ 8:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fiat-crypto payments provider, Alchemy Pay (ACH), has teamed up with merchant payment provider, ePayments, in order to provide cryptocurrency payments and services in New Zealand and Australia. ePayments will integrate with Alchemy Pay “to provide to their merchants with crypto payment acceptance, as well as… Read More

April 24, 2022 @ 8:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Marcus New, CEO and Founder of pre-IPO marketplace InvestX. InvestX delivers access, liquidity, and innovation to the private equity asset class via investments in late-stage private equity on a  trading platform, InvestX GEM. InvestX aims to empower broker-dealers and advisors… Read More

April 24, 2022 @ 5:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Skyflow recently announced a partnership with Plaid, a data network that powers the tools millions of people “rely on to live healthier financial lives.” The partnership will make it easier for developers “to build applications with data privacy infrastructure via a simple API.” This brings… Read More

April 24, 2022 @ 4:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tintra PLC, the Regtech firm building a global, borderless banking infrastructure to democratize payments for emerging markets, recently announced share issue details of the “latest receipt of a $2 million private funding round, valuing the company, in the private market at least, at $100 million,… Read More

April 24, 2022 @ 4:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital assets firm Binance recently noted that they are pleased to announce the appointment of Seth Levy, formerly from Citadel LLC and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), “as Binance’s Head of Market Surveillance.” Seth will be responsible for overseeing efforts “to… Read More

April 24, 2022 @ 4:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ETC Group has reportedly added an XRP backed investment product to its expanding digital assets portfolio of Exchange Traded Cryptocurrencies (ETCs) in Europe “which include BTCE, the world’s most traded crypto Exchange Traded Product (ETP).” ETC Group, which claims to be one of Europe’s leading… Read More

April 24, 2022 @ 10:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gr4vy, a Cloud-native payments company, recently announced new partnerships with Boku and EBANX to quickly give merchants access to local payment methods “in new geographies.” These partnerships will fuel international growth and revenue “while reducing risk, resource burden and the overall total cost of ownership.”… Read More

April 23, 2022 @ 2:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Lightyear, which launched in the UK last year, recently announced the addition of new features: limit orders, auto conversions and exportable activity statements. Lightyear has also “formally appointed two of its seed investors as advisors, Wander Rutgers and Joe Cross.” Lightyear, founded by… Read More

April 23, 2022 @ 10:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Australian Fintech firm, Archa, recently confirmed that it finalized its pre-Series A round,  securing $24 million in a mix of debt and equity in order to support ongoing growth and further product development. CEO and Founder of Wisr, Anthony Nantes, reportedly led the Fintech company’s investment… Read More

April 22, 2022 @ 11:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle founder Samir Desai has reportedly secured $30 million in funding from key investors such as Accel and Local Globe in order to support the roll-out of Super Payments, a newly-established Fintech venture, Sky News reported. A co-founder of Funding Circle, one of the… Read More

April 22, 2022 @ 11:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube has become the first investment crowdfunding platform to be approved under the new European Crowdfunding Service Provider Rules (ECSPR) that went into effect in November of 2021. Crowdcube, a platform that has long operated a subsidiary in Spain, received approval from the Spanish regulator… Read More

April 22, 2022 @ 9:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Neobank MyInvestor has reportedly reached €2 billion in volume, which “doubles the 1 billion euros registered in March 2021, consolidating its position as the largest Spanish fintech by volume.” Now serving more than 110,000 customers, MyInvestor also has “an investment balance (funds, plans and portfolios)… Read More

April 22, 2022 @ 5:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Germany-based Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) has partnered with Patch, a digital carbon credit marketplace, to provide bank customers with a payment solution. In a release, G+D said the partnership is an expansion of its ecosystem of eco-innovative partnerships that supports banks and Fintechs in their sustainability strategies…. Read More