Global

January 3, 2022 @ 5:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ham Serunjogi, Co-Founder & CEO at Chipper Cash, a venture-capital-backed Fintech firm that creates software to enable free and instant peer-to-peer cross-border payments, and solutions for businesses to handle online and in-store payments, notes that when him and Maijid and started Chipper Cash in 2018,… Read More

January 3, 2022 @ 4:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Capchase says they’re pleased to be deepening their presence in Europe alongside firms such as Sastrify and Calqulate, so that they can better support founders on their journey to “rapid yet deliberate growth.” Capchase explains that Slush is the most important technology… Read More

January 3, 2022 @ 3:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

C2FO, which claims to be the world’s largest platform for working capital serving over 1 million businesses representing $10.5 trillion in annual sales across over 160 countries, recently revealed that Leslie Olsen has joined the firm as their chief marketing officer. In her new role,… Read More

January 2, 2022 @ 10:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Uppsala Security, a provider of security tools and services for Crypto AML/CTF, Transaction Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance, Transaction Tracking, and Cyber Security announced the expansion of their business in the NFT Custody area, a service that was “not available until now in South Korea.” As… Read More

January 2, 2022 @ 9:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Like any industry, venture capitalism is “a shifting landscape with ebbs and flows, though to be fair, it hasn’t really ‘ebbed’ lately,” according to a blog post by US Fintech Unicorn Brex. The VC industry has seen tremendous growth during the past few years—one that’s… Read More

January 2, 2022 @ 4:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Waves, a blockchain technology platform focused on digital assets, DeFi, and NFTs, recently shared the main takeaways from community discussions during which the Waves ecosystem’s short-term plans and longer-term strategy were revealed. Waves founder Sasha Ivanov has talked about the Waves ecosystem’s… Read More

January 2, 2022 @ 3:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC) ended 2021 at an average price of $47,400, as Ray Dalio noted that BTC has “proven itself.” Meanwhile, MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) continued to acquire more of the leading cryptocurrency to strengthen its corporate treasury, the team at Blockstream noted in a recent market… Read More

January 2, 2022 @ 1:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at London-based Fintech LiveFlow is pleased to share that they have launched a new feature which they think you’ll really love: “Drill down into your reports.” As explained in a blog post by LiveFlow, this feature allows clients to “drill into [their] financial… Read More

January 2, 2022 @ 9:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lemonade (NYSE:LMND), the insurance firm that’s powered by AI and behavioral economics, notes that the end of the year 2021 is a time for “sitting back, taking stock, and reflecting on the past twelve months.” Although the Insurtech firm “doubtlessly” made a few mistakes along… Read More

January 2, 2022 @ 5:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at WorldRemit, a UK-based digital cross-border payments firm, has shared ways to send money to people who don’t have a bank account. WorldRemit writes in a blog post that for many of us, having a bank account is “an everyday thing.” And yet,… Read More

January 2, 2022 @ 4:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kuflink, a P2P UK property investment platform, where they invest with you,  introduced new features and improvements to their platform throughout 2021, doing their best to make your Kuflink experience is “as efficient, and as easy, as possible,” the company wrote in a blog post…. Read More

January 2, 2022 @ 3:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s online pension provider PensionBee notes that their clients take the lead on their product development. During the past few years, many clients have become “increasingly vocal about their desire to address some of the world’s biggest problems, such as climate change, through their investments,”… Read More

January 2, 2022 @ 2:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Towards the end off 2021, industry professionals from Finn AI, MX, Q2, and Rival Technologies came together to talk about what they’ve learned throughout the year and what advice they’d like to “impart to banks and credit unions in 2022.” By looking at the latest… Read More

January 2, 2022 @ 12:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The CEOs and team at European online lender October have thanked all their retail lenders and institutional investors, as they closed out 2021. The company has been focused on lending everyday to European SMEs. October writes in a blog post that in 2021, platform users… Read More

January 1, 2022 @ 10:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at European lender Bondora notes that 2021 was another “unexpected” year as they’ve learned to “adapt to a new normal.” But from change “comes growth,” Bondora writes in a blog post while adding that they’d like to take the a moment to highlight… Read More

December 31, 2021 @ 3:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Housing markets in Australia began to cool off towards the end of 2021. Updated regulations for banking institutions in the country should “increase the cost of, and reduce the access to financing,” according to an update from Judo Bank. This should see house prices in… Read More

December 31, 2021 @ 11:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Compass Mining, which claims to be the first and largest online marketplace for Bitcoin mining hardware and hosting, has commented on the relationship between BTC’s hashrate and the leading cryptocurrency’s issuance rate. According to mining analyst Mitch Klee, the inflation rate is “tied to hashrate… Read More

December 31, 2021 @ 10:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Virgin Money is teaming up with the Purpose Coalition on a Levelling Up Impact Report, “setting out its contribution to the levelling up agenda in the UK.” The Levelling Up Impact Report will aim to “highlight the work” Virgin Money is currently undertaking to create… Read More

December 31, 2021 @ 9:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitfinex Derivatives provides a derivatives platform that’s accessible via Bitfinex, a digital token trading platform. Bitfinex Derivatives has announced the launch of a perpetual contract for Curve DAO Token (CRVF0:USTF0). Curve DAO Token (CRV) is an Ethereum token that is used to power transactions via… Read More

December 31, 2021 @ 9:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Many more homeowners are now looking for all-digital solutions that are affordable and a lot more accessible. Digitalization and the platform concept are now finding their way into the real estate sector, which is not only an innovative breakthrough but has also become essential. That’s… Read More