Global

April 8, 2021 @ 9:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Open Banking solution provider TrueLayer has secured $70 million in capital through a Series D round. TrueLayer‘s latest investment round was led by Addition and included contributions from several angel investors. Following this latest fundraise, the Fintech firm has acquired a total of $142… Read More

April 8, 2021 @ 8:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Railsbank, a Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform, has reunited the Currencycloud team to boost the growth of their services. In a release, Railsbank said it has appointed John Hammond, previously CCO at Currencycloud as its new CCO to drive the platform’s international expansion. Hammond will join his… Read More

April 8, 2021 @ 8:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Publicly traded VC firm Draper Esprit (LSE: GROW, Euronext Growth: GRW), has distributed an update on recent developments in its portfolio in advance of full year reporting for the year. Draper noted that it will provide a full year trading update on April 26, 2021,… Read More

April 8, 2021 @ 7:53 am By JD Alois  |  

auxmoney, a marketplace lender based in Germany, has received €250 million for loans from Citigroup and Chenavari Investment Managers. Chenavari is a credit-focussed asset manager with core expertise in European markets. auxmoney reports that it is now co-investing for the first time alongside partners as… Read More

April 8, 2021 @ 7:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) Fintech firm Zilch is introducing a “tap and pay-over-time” solution that allows consumers to carry out in-store payments with a wave of their online or digital wallet, with the cost of their purchase spread over a manageable 6-week time… Read More

April 8, 2021 @ 6:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Proptech platform LendInvest has announced the promotion of Jan Gallagher from Business Development Manager to Key Account Manager for LendInvest. According to LendInvest, Gallagher joined LendInvest as a Business Development Manager in 2019 with over 30 year’s experience to source deals across the North West… Read More

April 8, 2021 @ 1:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Madrid-based Allfunds, a B2B Wealthtech solution provider, will reportedy be listing on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange. Allfunds has developed a comprehensive ecosystem that aims to cover the complete fund distribution value chain and related investment cycles, including through Allfunds Connect, which is a suite… Read More

April 7, 2021 @ 11:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

viafintech and illimity Bank S.p.A. have formed a partnership where users of illimitybank.com may use the “viacash” feature in their mobile banking app. The service is provided by viafintech and branded as “Cash Deposit” in the bank’s own app. illimity Bank customers will now be… Read More

April 7, 2021 @ 11:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A Fintech-related business could create over 40 new jobs in Newcastle after a recent £1.6 million fundraise. As first reported by Bdaily News, a North East based Fintech firm has revealed that it’s now focused on creating around 40 new roles after acquiring £1.6m via… Read More

April 7, 2021 @ 10:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

On April 1, 2021, the German Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) posted an update on “electronic trust services” in regards to video identification. Pointing to this update, IDNow said the decision to allow AI (artificial intelligence) based identification methods for new use cases in Germany is… Read More

April 7, 2021 @ 10:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Six early investors in UK stock trading app Freetrade have seen their stakes in the firm surge to be valued at around £1 million after the business saw its valuation increase to over £265 million, according to a report in the Telegraph. The reported returns… Read More

April 7, 2021 @ 7:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Gemini says that their international footprint “reflects crypto’s global reach.” As the company continues to expand its business operations, they are increasingly supporting “a range of clients around the world,” the Gemini team notes in an April 7, 2021 blog post. The… Read More

April 7, 2021 @ 3:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Gurvais Grigg recently revealed why he joined blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis as its Global Public Sector CTO after working for over two decades at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), most recently as Assistant Director of the FBI Laboratory. In his new role, Grigg will… Read More

April 7, 2021 @ 11:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Clubhouse will reportedly be adding a payments option that’s meant to generate more revenue for creators. The company also revealed that it could launch other initiatives in the foreseeable future. The move to add the new payments feature has come at a time when several… Read More

April 7, 2021 @ 10:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Global investment platform OurCrowd has announced today that its flagship portfolio index fund OurCrowd 50 (OC50) has been added to BNY Mellon Pershing’s Alternative Investment Network. OC50 was created as a diversified investment vehicle to offer more investors access to highly vetted startups across a… Read More

April 7, 2021 @ 10:19 am By JD Alois  |  

Charlotte Crosswell, the CEO of Innovate Finance, has announced she will step down from her position on May 1, 2021. Janine Hirt, Innovate Finance’s Chief Operating Officer will become interim CEO at that time. Crosswell has led the Fintech advocacy group since 2017 playing a… Read More

April 7, 2021 @ 8:37 am By JD Alois  |  

EML Payments Limited (ASX: EML) has acquired Sentential and its wholly-owned subsidiaries including open banking firm Nuapay. The binding agreement totals €110 million including an upfront enterprise value of €70 million plus an earn-out of up to €40 million. Sentenial is a cloud-native payments company… Read More

April 7, 2021 @ 8:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Plaid has announced a significant funding round raising $425 million in a Series D round. It has been rumored for some time that Plaid, a leader in the open banking sector, was raising new capital. New investors Altimeter Capital, Silver Lake, and Ribbit Capital joined… Read More

April 7, 2021 @ 1:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dominik Schiener, Co-founder at IOTA, which claims it has “re-engineered the principles” of existing distributed ledger technology (DLT) to offer a fee-less, open-source, secure data and financial exchange protocol, has revealed that one of the biggest upgrades in IOTA’s history is “right in front of us.”… Read More

April 6, 2021 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Open Banking Fintech Plaid is reportedly in the process of closing financing at around a $13 billion valuation. Plaid’s investment round will be led by Altimeter Capital, according to Bloomberg which cited “people” familiar with the matter. Many of the Fintech firm’s current investors will… Read More