Global

September 27, 2021 @ 11:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

IOHK and Oasis Pro have entered a partnership to create an alternative trading system that will use blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) to open up participation “in primary bond markets to developing countries.” The two firms are teaming up to implement a bond issuance… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 11:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Lithuania-based Debitum, a borderless financing platform, says it’s proud to release asset-backed securities and enter the “regulated financial market.” As mentioned in a blog post by Debitum, dated September 23, 2021,  the company will now be able to continue the journey to… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 10:54 am By JD Alois  |  

MDOTM, a platform that provides investment advice using artificial intelligence  (AI), has raised €6.2 million in Series B fundraising. Both institutions and individual investors participated in the funding round. Investors include Federico Ghizzoni, Chairman of Rothschild Italy and former CEO of UniCredit; Lorenzo Pagani, Managing… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 9:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Fintern, a digital consumer lender seeking to improve access to affordable lending, has appointed Andrew Bloom to its board as a Non-Executive Director. Bloom founded Masthaven Bank, and served as its CEO from 2015 to 2020. Masthaven is a UK challenger bank focusing on savings… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 9:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European P2P lending platform Bondora reveals that the number of loans recovered and the amount of cash recovered from missed or skipped payments “jumped higher in August.” This is the opposite of the trend observed in the month of July 2021, which saw these two… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 8:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PAX Technology, a leading payment terminal solutions provider, has unveiled the European launch of the M30 & M50 Android PayPhones (at the payment industry’s Money20/20 event in Holland on 21-23 September 2021). The M-series PayPhones are the “first-ever” smartphones with inbuilt point of sale (PoS)… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 8:44 am By JD Alois  |  

EstateGuru, a property-backed loan marketplace catering to retail investors, has distributed an update on progress in Finland. In 2020, Estate Guru, which is based in Tallinn, entered Finland as a market expansion. At that time, EstateGuru said it had been actively talking to Finnish entrepreneurs since… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based MarketFinance, a leading online lender that recently raised £280 million in debt and equity and was approved for flex loans, notes in a blog post that there’s “no denying” that last year was quite tough. However, the MarketFinance team claims that “things are looking up”… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 7:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based digital bank Monzo notes that clients have been able to pay Direct Debits and “standing orders” from a Pot for a while, and now customers may complete card payments as well  – including via Apple Pay and Google Pay. As explained in a blog… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 7:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Greengage announced that it has strengthened its senior leadership team with the appointment of a new Chief Financial Officer. The company has hired former Starling Bank Head of Finance, Brennan Elliott-Jones, in order to accelerates growth of its Gibraltar business operations. Greengage, which intends to… Read More

September 26, 2021 @ 9:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As widely reported, China has expanded its ongoing cryptocurrency crackdown. This reportedly includes increasing enforcement against illegal digital currency mining, as well as preventing financial transactions involving crypto-assets. The Chinese central bank also confirmed that any trading, order matching, token issuance and derivatives on cryptocurrencies… Read More

September 26, 2021 @ 7:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Entrust, a US digital security and credential issuance service provider, reveals that it has entered a deal to acquire Paris-headquartered Antelop Solutions, a Fintech firm that supports financial institutions by allowing them to provide secure digital credit and debit cards to clients. As noted by… Read More

September 26, 2021 @ 7:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC) difficulty, a parameter that virtual currencies use to keep the average time between blocks fairly steady as the blockchain network’s hash power changes (where a relatively high difficulty may help with securing the blockchain against attacks), increased for the fifth straight  time –… Read More

September 26, 2021 @ 4:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zurich Insurance Group recently entered an international partnership with Toronto-headquartered Insurtech firm BOXX Insurance (BOXX), which offers integrated cybersecurity and insurance services to SMEs, individual consumers and families. As noted by its management, BOXX Insurance Inc. is a new type of insurance firm for “a… Read More

September 26, 2021 @ 3:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Feedzai, a US Cloud-powered financial risk management platform, and Berlin’s Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) service provider Solarisbank have entered a multi-year partnership (announced at Money20/20 Europe). Through the partnership, Solarisbank will be leveraging Feedzai’s innovative tech, which will allow them to apply a proper risk management approach… Read More

September 26, 2021 @ 1:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Shield, the Workplace Intelligence platform for compliance teams, reveals that it has teamed up with LeapXpert, a provider of in front-office conversational solutions. LeapXpert’s Federated Messaging Orchestration Platform (FMOP) has been designed to support the real-time control, monitoring, and capture of conversations on mobile messaging… Read More

September 25, 2021 @ 7:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Axate, the flexible payment tool that aims to “fix a broken media market,” has secured 103% (or £360,799) of its £350,000 fundraising target via Crowdcube (at the time of writing) from 193 investors. The Axate team explains that users may sign up once, “upload some… Read More

September 25, 2021 @ 7:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Serrala, the financial automation and payments software firm, and European Open Banking platform Tink, have formed a partnership for supporting open banking tech services. Through the partnership, the companies will be supporting billers so they can reach clients via every channel to settle bills and… Read More

September 25, 2021 @ 10:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Modulr has now opened business offices in the Netherlands, which will serve as “the springboard for its EU-wide expansion in 2022 and 2023.” Following steady business growth in the United Kingdom during the last 5 years, Modulr is expanding rapidly, putting significant investment… Read More

September 25, 2021 @ 10:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The peer-to-peer (P2P) market volumes for the first 8 months of this year are comparable to the GDP of the Maldives and Fiji, according to an update from Croatian P2P lender Robo.cash. The number of P2P investors is reportedly greater than the population of 52… Read More