Global

July 30, 2021 @ 11:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this week, a tidal turbine went online generating sufficient power to provide enough electricity for 2000 homes. Towed and anchored off the coast of Scotland, the Orbital O2 is predicted to operate for around 15 years. The project came to fruition with the assistance… Read More

July 30, 2021 @ 10:43 am By JD Alois  |  

FT Partners, the leading boutique investment in the Fintech sector, has distributed its own spin on Fintech venture funding. Recently, CI covered CBInsights’ report on Fintech funding, and FT Partners concurs. Fintech is booming during the first half of 2021 fueled in part by the… Read More

July 30, 2021 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based MarketFinance, one of the world’s largest peer-to-peer (P2P) invoice finance platforms, notes that during the month of July 2021, new changes to the Prompt Payment Code came into effect. Announced in January of this year, the changes have been designed “to strengthen the position… Read More

July 30, 2021 @ 7:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at European P2P lending service provider Bondora notes that while return rates on their platform originations declined in June when compared to figures from May 2021, returns over the most recent few years “were still above their target rates.” The Bondora team has… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 10:08 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Israeli blockchain firm Kirobo has launched the P2P Swap Button, a decentralized service enabling truly peer-to-peer token swaps without the need for an exchange or custodial OTC party. Users can set their own token prices with the off-exchange platform, allowing them to avoid the slippage… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 9:40 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Recent activity in China is having global effects, the CEO of Sun Global Investments said. Earlier this week global stocks retreated following Chinese equity declines over three consecutive sessions that saw CSI 300 of Shanghai and Shenzhen listed companies close 3.5 per cent lower while… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 6:15 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bender Labs and Plenty DeFi are rewarding users of the Tezos DeFi ecosystem. Plenty will create a $PLENTY pond where users can stake $PLENTY tokens to earn $WRAP governance tokens as rewards (Bender Labs launched Wrap Protocol). At the same time Wrap Protocol will create… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 2:48 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

While the Americans and Chinese have more collective wealth, it is the Swiss who are the richest per capita, new numbers from BuyShares.co.uk show. The Swiss have average per capita wealth of $674,000, which is 33 per cent more than the USA or Hong Kong…. Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 12:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

68% of wealth management customers in the post-COVID world are expecting a fully digital onboarding experience, according to an update from OneSpan, a company specializing in digital identity and anti-fraud solutions that “create exceptional and secure experiences.” OneSpan, which supports risk-based adaptive authentication and digital… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 11:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and Finastra have announced that they are bringing the trade funding marketplace pilot to Ecuador. ICC TRADECOMM – designed to tap into the international $1.5 trillion trade finance gap – should enable local SMEs to unlock new financing options…. Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 10:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Payment service PayU has announced a partnership with Visa. According to a release, PayU is launching its Card Push service to provide businesses with efficient payments. By leveraging Visa Direct, a real-time push payments platform, businesses using PayU Card Push will be able to instantly… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 10:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Pacypay, a payments service provider, has received approval from the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to operate as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI), according to a note from the company. Pacypay is part of Ronghan International and also includes OnerWay to facilitate payments and transfers…. Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 9:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Marqeta (NASDAQ:MQ) has announced that Google Pay will use its modern card issuing platform to facilitate a tokenized, virtual card that gives Google Pay users more ways to use their Google Pay Card. Marqeta is an interesting infrastructure Fintech that became a publicly traded company… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 9:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Global remittances firm RemitONE and Vyne, a payments platform, have partnered up on money transfers. According to a release, the partnership delivers 100+ remittance clients instant access to Vyne’s payment solution, to send remittances globally. Vyne uses Open Banking to move money in real-time between… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 9:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Changpeng Zhao or “CZ”, the CEO of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of adjusted trading volume, recently announced that he would be welcoming regulation. CZ also said he wants Binance to work cooperatively with regulatory authorities, across the globe, as it establishes… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 9:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Secured Finance, a platform provider for the crypto loans and the derivatives market, says it has acquired $4 million in capital as part of its “oversubscribed” seed round. The successful raise, with demand of “more than double” of Secured Finance’s initial target, has been co-led… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 9:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Curve Finance, an automated market maker protocol developed for swapping between stablecoins and various other crypto tokens with low fees and slippage, reveals that it will be supporting Tether tokens pegged to the euro (EURt). The addition of EURt to Curve — a protocol developed… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 8:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Fabric Ventures has announced a new $130 million fund dedicated to backing digital asset and decentralized, or DeFi, early-stage firms. The fund received the support of the European Investment Fund (EIF) which added $30 million to the fund. This is the first EIF backed fund… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Board of Directors at Capgemini SE, chaired by Paul Hermelin, convened on July 27, 2021 in Paris in order to review and adopt the accounts of Capgemini Group for H1 2021. Aiman Ezzat, CEO at Capgemini Group, said that Capgemini has been able to… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Crowdcube, the European marketplace for shares in private firms, and Crunchbase, an established data platform, have partnered in order to power the “most comprehensive” and transparent platform for private company investment in Europe. Cubex, which officially goes live today (July 28, 2021), will feature “rich”… Read More