Global

September 17, 2021 @ 9:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

EY, an international consulting and tech firm, is working with Polygon on developing and implementing scaling and enterprise services for the Ethereum (ETH) ecosystem. As part of this collaboration, EY and Polygon will be working cooperatively on Polygon Nightfall, a public, privacy-oriented Rollup. EY will… Read More

September 17, 2021 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Form3, the platform payment tech provider, has revealed that its Series C investment funding of $160 million has been finalized. Form3‘s investment round has been led by the Growth Equity business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management and included contributions from existing investors. This brings the… Read More

September 17, 2021 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Euroclear is pleased to confirm its acquisition of MFEX Group, an international digital fund distribution platform. Euroclear had first announced its intent to acquire MFEX “on March 26, 2021.” The financial terms of the deal have not been shared publicly. As mentioned in a release,… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 10:07 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Estonian company BlockBen has released its digital asset eBSO on the Ethereum network. eBSO is a platform token that receives a percentage of every transaction of all the assets in the BlockBen ecosystem and is accumulated as physical gold. Trading of the eBSO token begins… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 9:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bondster a Czech based peer to peer lending platform, says it will allow loans for investors to be secured with Bitcoin. Bondster states that just last week the first batch of loans secured by bitcoin were originated on its platform. Bondster claims there was an… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 2:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Change, a European crypto investment platform, says it has opened an office in Singapore in the first step towards global expansion. Singapore is a noted Fintech hub that is supported by a regulatory regime that seeks to enable Fintech innovation. This past summer, Change reported… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 2:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Curve, a fast-growing neo-bank, has announced a buy now, pay later (BNPL) service joining the rest of the market as it moves away from high-cost cards for certain purchases. Curve Flex is said to have received approval from the UK Financial Conduct Authority on September… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 12:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Macrobond, a provider of global economic, aggregate financial and sector data for finance professionals, has partnered with financial and data company FactSet to offer “top-down” researchers with key insights into the dynamics of international equity markets. As noted in a release shared with Crowdfund Insider,… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 9:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Nexpay, an EU-licensed electronic money institution, has partnered with Salt Edge, an open-banking SaaS provider. Nexpay is a Vilnius-based Fintech startup that provides banking infrastructure for the digital assets sector. Currently, Nexpay reports that it is helping over 400 businesses build a range of payments… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 9:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Gemini reveals that it now supports trading with Moss Carbon and Terra, in addition to new metaverse, infrastructure, and stablecoin tokens. As mentioned in an update shared with CI: “Today, [the Gemini team is] delighted to announce support for a new set… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 9:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

dopay, a B2B2C payments platform that aims to serve 1.7 billion unbanked workers in emerging markets, has finalized an $18 million Series A round. As mentioned in a release, dopay intends to address a steady and growing demand from businesses for cashless payroll and from… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 9:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Payments service provider (PSP) Lemonway has partnered with Tink to facilitate payments to customers across Europe with “Pay By Bank.” Tink is an open banking platform that enables banks, Fintechs and startups to develop data-driven financial services via an API platform. Tink currently connects more… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 9:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Umbrella Network, the decentralized Layer-2 Oracle solution, revealed on Wednesday (September 15, 2021) that they had formed a partnership with IX Swap, which claims to be the first decentralized finance or DeFi platform that provides Automated Market Making (AMM) & Liquidity Pools (LPs) for security… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 8:54 am By JD Alois  |  

  SupraFin is democratizing sophisticated crypto trading for the masses. Launched this week and available for download via the Apple App Store, SupraFin has announced the first app with smart crypto investment algorithms that assess the relative value of thousands of cryptocurrencies and recommends the… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 8:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Banking Circle, an established payments service provider, has looked into how collaboration can “speed up the real-time payments revolution for corporates.” As noted in a blog post by Banking Circle: “For retail customers, instant payments have come to be expected, but in… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 7:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Marqeta (NASDAQ: MQ), a modern card issuing platform utilized by both old finance and Fintechs, has distributed a report highlighting the usage of credit cards during the COVID-19 health crisis. The report indicates that COVID has boosted the popularity of credit cards and flexible payment… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 7:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital bank Starling asks whether you’ve every agreed to plans for something you “really didn’t want to do.” The UK-based banking challenger also asks whether you’ve “walked down the high street and been unable not buy something from that fast-talking street vendor.”… Read More

September 15, 2021 @ 10:23 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Specialist lender Assetz Capital has appointed Mehwish Mirza to the new position of senior relationship manager to its bridging team. Mirza moves over from Glenhawk, where she spent almost two years operating as a business development manager following spells with Together and Gatehouse Bank. She… Read More

September 15, 2021 @ 9:53 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

SeedBlink, an investment platform specializing in sourcing, vetting, funding, and scaling European tech startups, has appointed Carmen Sebe CEO (she joined as a partner Jan. 1, 2020). SeedBlink has also hired two senior executives for the positions of CFO and CTO. With Sebe’s promotion, Andrei Dudoiu,… Read More

September 15, 2021 @ 6:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Wise (WISE.L), formerly doing business as Transferwise, has finally launched its first iteration of an investment feature. A long, long time ago, Wise said it intended to create more options to hold funds that can generate a return. Last year, it was reported that Wise… Read More