Global

July 20, 2021 @ 10:47 am By Xu Gao  |  

Alibaba Establishes Digital Agricultural Subsidiary According to information from Tianyancha, Alibaba Digital Agriculture (Shandong) Co., Ltd. was established on July 12th, with a registered capital of 10 million yuan. This company is a fully owned subsidiary of Alibaba (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Its business scope includes… Read More

July 20, 2021 @ 10:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

IslamicFinanceGuru has secured £3.0 million in capital through a round led by Outward VC. Outward says it is pleased to confirm their investment in IFG, the UK-headquartered Islamic finance platform. Other investors include B&Y Venture Partners and angels. The platform has been designed to offer… Read More

July 20, 2021 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at UK-based P2P lender Blend Network notes that many investors active on their platform will know that they have an AutoLend feature that enables lenders to make automatic investments. Blend Network explains in a blog post that these auto investments can be made… Read More

July 20, 2021 @ 2:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CLS, a financial market infrastructure service offering settlement, processing and data solutions across the international foreign exchange (FX) ecosystem, has welcomed updates to the FX Global Code – which aim to place more emphasis on the use of payment-versus-payment (PvP) settlement mechanisms where accessible, while… Read More

July 20, 2021 @ 1:17 am By Priyanka Pani  |  

In a strange turn of events that could negatively impact the crypto sector, two well-known founders and critical architects from the industry have called quits. In four days, Jackson Palmer, co-founder of cryptocurrency Dogecoin, and Anthony Di Iorio, co-founder of Etheruem have decided to quit… Read More

July 20, 2021 @ 1:00 am By JD Alois  |  

The Future Fund: Breakthrough, opens today for applications.  The new programme was revealed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, during the budget speech this past spring. The £375 million scheme is designed to encourage private investors to co-invest with the government in high-growth… Read More

July 19, 2021 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Compass Mining, an online marketplace for Bitcoin mining hardware and hosting, recently revealed that it has launched a real-time status updates page for cryptocurrency miners in order to monitor the uptime of Compass hosting facilities across the globe. As noted in an update from Compass,… Read More

July 19, 2021 @ 6:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at global Fintech Circle, which will go public in a $4.5 billion SPAC deal, notes that the promise of decentralized finance (DeFi) is to transform or fundamentally improve financial services by offering greater transparency, security, and community governance by leveraging blockchain or distributed… Read More

July 19, 2021 @ 11:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Prometeo, a large open banking platform based in Uruguay, has announced a new program for startups called Spark. The program enables startups, Fintechs, and small businesses access to its infrastructure of banking connections with APIs, free of charge. Prometeo stated that participants will have access… Read More

July 19, 2021 @ 11:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Zodia Custody Limited, a crypto-focused firm backed by Standard Chartered, is now registered with the UK Financial Conduct Authority as a regulated crypto-asset firm. Standard Chartered partnered with Northern Trust to launch Zodia. Earlier this month, Zodia announced a new wholesale trading platform for crypto-assets…. Read More

July 19, 2021 @ 10:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The National Bank of Ukraine has reportedly added Fintech firm Paysera to the nation’s Register of Payment Systems. After carrying out the necessary technical preparations, Paysera will be providing quicker transfers to and from Ukraine to private clients. Transactions will be supported in hryvnias, Euros,… Read More

July 19, 2021 @ 8:50 am By JD Alois  |  

Clausematch has published a report stating that the Regtech industry is at a tipping point as firms deal with “the ever-increasing regulatory burden and the cost of maintaining compliance.” Clausematch has distributed its ‘”Voice of Regtech” survey. According to the company, the survey was carried… Read More

July 19, 2021 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TrueLayer, the global Open Banking solution provider, reveals that it has hired technical professionals in Australia in order to expand operations in the APAC region. Tilen Chetty will be joining TrueLayer in Sydney as Product Lead and Dan Gaskin will be working out of the… Read More

July 19, 2021 @ 8:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Switzerland-based B2B Proptech firm PriceHubble reveals that it has finalized its $34 million Series B round. PriceHubble’s investment round was oversubscribed and was led by Digital+ Partners, a European growth equity investor. The firm’s round was also joined by Latitude Ventures, the Series B+ sister… Read More

July 19, 2021 @ 12:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at European P2P lending platform Bondora reveals that it has been another solid month of growth for recoveries. Bondora, which has seen nearly 170,000 people invest more than €455 million and have reportedly earned €54 million to date, reports that the amount of… Read More

July 18, 2021 @ 11:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kuflink Group, a platform that connects borrowers with lenders, by providing a steady flow of accessible finance and competitive interest rates, notes that their tech team has worked hard to bring new features. Kuflink‘s management writers in a blog post that together, with users’ feedback,… Read More

July 18, 2021 @ 10:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based MarketFinance, one of the world’s largest peer-to-peer (P2P) invoice finance platforms, acknowledges that they understand the “stresses” and “frustrations” that small businesses go through on daily basis. Although they cannot fix everything, the company explains that they can provide you the financial “firepower” you… Read More

July 18, 2021 @ 10:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The iwoca SME Expert Index reveals that 1 in 3 brokers “see rising demand for unsecured finance.” As noted in an update shared with CI, more than a third (38%) of brokers submitted “more lending applications for unsecured finance in May compared to the previous… Read More

July 18, 2021 @ 9:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Lithuania-based financing platform Debitum recently published their platform statistics update for June 2021. As noted in a blog post by Debitum, the month of June was a relatively calm or quiet month for the platform. However, their team continued working hard to… Read More

July 18, 2021 @ 6:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

European peer-to-peer lending platform Mintos has reportedly changed the status for E-Cash and Dziesiatka on its platform. The Mintos team writes in a blog post: “Along with proceeding with the recovery of funds from E-Cash and Dziesiatka, we are changing the status for both lending… Read More