Global

February 14, 2022 @ 10:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital commerce is a major engine of the global economy. It experienced an economic upshift during the year 2020 as a consequence of the economic slowdown that accompanied the COVID-19 crisis. At the same time, the continued digitization of commercial and consumer transactions “contributed to… Read More

February 14, 2022 @ 4:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software firm, has announced that Commerce Bank (NASDAQ: CBSH) is now live with Temenos core banking platform. This milestone completes Commerce Bank’s modernization project to transition from its outdated legacy systems for deposits “to a modern, agile and open platform… Read More

February 14, 2022 @ 2:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

illimity, a digital bank operating in Italy, released its financial results for the full year ending December 31, 2021. According to the company, it achieved its 2021 profit guidance, posting a net profit of €65.6 million for 2021, more than double the figure for 2020… Read More

February 14, 2022 @ 2:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SteelEye, the compliance tech and data analytics firm, reinforced its commitment to ensuring institutional-grade data security by “achieving System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 compliance.” The external accreditation confirms SteelEye’s ongoing commitment to data security – a move the Regtech firm thinks will solidify its… Read More

February 14, 2022 @ 11:07 am By JD Alois  |  

KARM Legal Consultant PVT Limited, a UAE legal consultancy firm specialized in blockchain, Fintech and Data Protection/Cyber laws, has announced a partnership with Switzerland-based ScaleCompliance GmbH to provide crypto compliance services. Kokila Alagh, founder and CEO KARM Legal, commented: “We believe in cultivating a divergent… Read More

February 14, 2022 @ 10:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stephen Palley. Partner, Anderson Kill. Chair, Technology, Media & Distributed Systems Group, noted that an FBI agent once told (with “false modesty to be sure”) that their biggest breaks often “come not from law enforcement genius but from mistakes by their targets.” Palley further noted… Read More

February 14, 2022 @ 10:04 am By JD Alois  |  

STASIS has distributed a statement indicating it will issue a Euro stablecoin using the XRP Ledger (XRPL). XRPL was created by three engineers – David Schwartz, Jed McCaleb, and Arthur Britto. At one point, they were joined by Chris Larsen and a company was formed… Read More

February 14, 2022 @ 9:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Many people have come to own and embrace crypto-assets because of a powerful sense of mission that includes: fairness and efficiency meaning a desire to see transferring money more like sending a text message — “instantaneous and low cost to all, and not something that… Read More

February 14, 2022 @ 9:33 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK Financial Conduct  Authority (FCA) has secured changes to consumer terms from popular buy now, pay later platforms, according to a statement from the regulator. The FCA states that terms in the contracts of Clearpay, Klarna, Laybuy, and Openpay have been “unclear” and “unfair.”… Read More

February 14, 2022 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Vitesse PSP, the payment, liquidity and treasury management platform, recently announced that it has secured $26 million in Series B funding led by Prime Ventures. The Series B investment round also includes contributions from Octopus Ventures, which led the 2020 Series A round and are… Read More

February 14, 2022 @ 2:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global Wealth Group, which aims to make global property investing available to anyone, anywhere, from any amount, safer & simple, has raised 101% (£759,030) of its £750,000 target at the time of writing from 229 investors with 24 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding campaign carried… Read More

February 14, 2022 @ 1:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PeerBerry business partner – real estate developer SIB Group – has successfully finalized the apartment building project “Skvero namai” in the center of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. The real estate loan of €1 million (the total amount with interest rate €1,068 803) was repaid… Read More

February 14, 2022 @ 12:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Peer-to-peer lending provides investors and borrowers various advantages over more traditional forms of finance. However, there’s a potential downside as well. EstateGuru has taken a detailed look at the pros and cons of this form of funding, and the ways in which their platform aims… Read More

February 13, 2022 @ 11:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The past few years have seen the crypto and blockchain space impact just about every industry in one way or another. However, one innovation in particular is leveraging blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) in order to “fundamentally disrupt how organizations are structured, codified and… Read More

February 13, 2022 @ 3:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

At specialist development finance lender, Blend Network, the team prides itself on being by their client’s side, assisting them with borrowing funds for their initiatives. Even at the heights of the COVID-19 crisis, the team reports that they continued lending and deploying capital into projects… Read More

February 13, 2022 @ 1:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London’s SETL and New York’s Digital Asset recently entered into a partnership to develop a protocol that may be used by regulated institutions to introduce interoperable tokens. The protocol, modelled on the Regulated Liability Network (RLN) initiative first introduced by Citibank’s Tony McLaughlin, will be… Read More

February 13, 2022 @ 12:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, an international retail bank, payments and shopping platform, recently noted that six out of ten or 60% of credit card users don’t know how much interest they are actually being charged. This, according to the latest YouGov research that was commissioned by Fintech firm… Read More

February 12, 2022 @ 11:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at GoCardless notes that Open Banking is the key to changing how we make payments, and get paid. So when GoCardless finalized their Series F investment round at the end of 2020, they immediately put that investment to work – “accelerating [their] product… Read More

February 12, 2022 @ 11:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Chronicle, a “digital collectibles marketplace,” has announced a secondary marketplace, auctions, and crypto integrations. Simultaneously, Chronical has announced that it will enable payments from USDC, the dollar-based stablecoin issued by Circle. Launched last year, the NFT platform targets a global market that offers “authenticated” digital… Read More

February 12, 2022 @ 9:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FNZ, the wealth management platform, has acquired $1.4 billion in new equity funding from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Motive Partners, in one of the largest primary equity raises in the wealth management industry. The raise now values FNZ at more than $20 billion… Read More