Global

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

September 25, 2021 @ 10:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based P2P lending platform Blend Network reports that annual house price growth in the country surged to 11.0% in July 2021 from around 10.5% in June 2021. This, according to the updated figures from the Nationwide House Price Index. In MoM terms, house prices increased… Read More

September 25, 2021 @ 10:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Steven Weinstein, the CEO of Seismic Capital Company, an early-stage growth investor that’s focused on identifying, guiding and nurturing firms that are looking meaningfully disrupt the space or industry they work in. Weinstein has reportedly been involved in the capital markets,… Read More

September 24, 2021 @ 3:04 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Scottish firm HOKO this week revealed their national and international expansion plans along with a new £500,000 crowdfunding campaign. Their goals include 30 new studios as part of plan to be UK’s largest homeowner architect. Not too long ago, Hoko raised £400k from individual investors… Read More

September 24, 2021 @ 12:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Loyalty app provider loyalBe has officially introduced its business operations in Dublin, by launching its unique rewards platform for small businesses operating in Ireland, after forming key partnerships with payments giant Visa (NYSE: V) and Champion Green. loyalBe offers local companies or businesses with an… Read More

September 24, 2021 @ 12:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Liti Capital SA, a Switzerland based litigation funding platform, has launched a new service called “Scambusters.” According to a release, the new feature will enable users to vote for which crypto fraud case the platform should pursue in the future. Any LITI or wLITI token… Read More

September 24, 2021 @ 10:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Vesta, a transaction guarantee platform for digital or online purchases, has published its Global Card-Not-Present (CNP) Fraud Report, which features an analysis of millions of virtual transactions from Q1 2020 through Q1 2021 in order to track how CNP fraud has evolved during that particular… Read More

September 24, 2021 @ 9:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Prodigy Finance, the Fintech firm that’s focused on cross-border lending for postgraduate international students, has finalized a funding deal from CPP Investments – which will see the institutional investor offer as much as $500 million of financing via its wholly-owned subsidiary CPPIB Credit Investments Inc….. Read More

September 24, 2021 @ 9:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BNPL Pay has finalized its investment round. The Fintech company has secured a total of $7.14 million for the ongoing development of its protocol. As previously reported, the BNPL token is the utility and governance token of the BNPL Pay ecosystem. Below is a breakdown… Read More

September 24, 2021 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Payaca, a Fintech firm that’s behind a virtual job management service that assists companies and trade-based businesses with improving operations, has acquired a £331,000 investment from Blackfinch Ventures. Targeted at SMEs in order to increase their chances of getting contract work, Payaca’s mobile and web… Read More

September 23, 2021 @ 12:07 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

While the baseline premise behind Liti Capital is interesting enough on its own, the founding team’s vision for the company and the cryptocurrency industry as a whole suggests it is well-positioned to be around for the long haul. Executive chairman and CIO David Kay previously… Read More

September 23, 2021 @ 10:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Tokeny Solutions has issued a statement on the new ERC3643, a protocol currently in use by some financial institutions. EIP-3643: T-REX is an Ethereum based standard that is described as an institutional-grade security token standard that provides interfaces for the management and compliant transfer of… Read More

September 23, 2021 @ 9:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

eToro, a multi-asset investment platform that empowers consumers to grow their knowledge and wealth as part of a global community of investors, reveals that it’s “reinforcing its commitment to opening the digital economy to the next billion global crypto users.” eToro confirmed in a release… Read More

September 23, 2021 @ 9:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Fasanara Capital has closed on a €250 Million Fintech Fund that was supported by the European Investment Fund (EIF) that made a “cornerstone” investment in the fund. Fasanara Capital is a boutique alternative asset manager and an investor in Fintech lending in Europe. The fund… Read More

September 23, 2021 @ 9:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Vyne, an open banking firm in the payments sector, is claiming the title as the largest seed funding valuation for any UK open banking contender to date. Vyne says it is currently processing millions of pounds worth of transactions each month at a growth rate… Read More