Global

November 18, 2020 @ 7:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bdeo, an established Insurtech firm with offices in Spain and Latin America, has finalized a Series A investment round valued at €5 million. Bdeo’s latest round was led by BlackFin, a European investment company that’s focused on the financial services sector. Existing investors K Fund… Read More

November 18, 2020 @ 7:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

After joining digital bank Monzo only about a year ago, the Fintech firm’s first Chief Risk Officer, Lisa Nowell, has decided to leave her position to pursue a new role at Ashman Finance, an SME-focused lender. Nowell has previously served as Chief Risk Officer at… Read More

November 17, 2020 @ 11:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore based Fintech firm 360F and Zurich Middle East have introduced a “pioneering” and “deeply innovative” solution, called ZurichPro, which aims to digitize the financial planning process, and will help Zurich with meeting its business sustainability goals and objectives. Walter Jopp, CEO of Zurich Middle… Read More

November 17, 2020 @ 9:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brazil’s reserve bank has launched its PIX instant payments platform and has also noted that WhatsApp might soon be allowed to reintroduce its peer to peer (P2P) payments service in the South American country. PIX allows local residents, companies, and government agencies to carry out… Read More

November 17, 2020 @ 9:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global payments platform Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), which claims it’s the platform of choice for many of the world’s largest businesses, has announced that it would be expanding its operations into the Middle East region. Adyen’s management noted that they aim to support the momentum of… Read More

November 17, 2020 @ 5:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

InvestiNation is a new investment crowdfunding platform that seeks to pair US accredited investors with hot startups in Israel’s booming entrepreneur ecosystem. Israel is well-known as the “innovation nation” as countless companies have launched in a relatively small country while attracting global money. The online… Read More

November 17, 2020 @ 1:55 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Mastercard announced on Tuesday it will extend the Google Pay service to cardholders across Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, and Romania together with its issuing partners. Mastercard reported that with Google Pay, users with eligible Android devices will be able to… Read More

November 17, 2020 @ 12:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Galileo, an API standard for card issuing, virtual card solutions and digital banking, is aiding Argentina based Fintech Ualá’s expansion into Mexico. Moving into Mexico is Ualá’s first expansion outside its home country. Ualá is a Fintech with a mission to bring Latin American financial… Read More

November 17, 2020 @ 11:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Mintos, a European marketplace for investing in loans, rocketed on Crowdcube easily topping its €1 million in just 15 minutes, cruising to €5.3 million in the first 24 hours. Mintos claims title as the largest European company to raise on Crowdcube, by both the amount… Read More

November 17, 2020 @ 11:51 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Canadian fintech Mogo Inc. (TSX:MOGO) (NASDAQ:MOGO) announced on Tuesday it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Carta Solutions Holding Corporation, also known as Carta Worldwide. According to Mogo, Carta is a next-gen digital payments solution and through the acquisition, Mogo will be expanding into… Read More

November 17, 2020 @ 11:41 am By JD Alois  |  

ONTOCHAIN, a project funded by the European Commission under the Next Generation Internet initiative, is on the hunt for applicants seeking to build a new software ecosystem for “trusted, traceable, and transparent ontological knowledge management.” The €4.2 million fund will provide €123,000 in equity-free money… Read More

November 17, 2020 @ 11:19 am By JD Alois  |  

Bitconnect, a legendary crypto scam that was exemplified by a viral video, has emerged once again as the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has announced charges against Bitconnect promoter John Bigatton following a long investigation. From August 2017 to January 2018, Bigatton was said… Read More

November 17, 2020 @ 10:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital bank Revolut has announced the launch of Google Pay for customers in Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal and Romania. The Fintech claims to be one of the first financial services firms to offer Google Pay as a service within their… Read More

November 17, 2020 @ 9:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Goodlord, a Proptech that digitizes property management – and more, has partnered with credit reference agency and Open Banking provider, Credit Kudos, to improve the rental process for agents, landlords and tenants by allowing more accurate assessments of a tenant’s financial situation. According to a… Read More

November 17, 2020 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Australia based neobank Douugh Ltd (ASX:DOU) has launched its app in the US following a partnership with Mastercard. Douugh reports that it has been in beta with U.S. consumers since early-2019 and is now officially launching to the wider market. Douugh Founder and CEO, Andy… Read More

November 17, 2020 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The development team at Fuse.io, a Tel Aviv based Fintech firm that aims to leverage (decentralized finance) DeFi infrastructure to create a platform for entrepreneurs that allows them to turn “communities into economies,” recently partnered with Ramp in order to “ease the onboarding process” of… Read More

November 16, 2020 @ 10:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Landbay, a digital buy-to-let finance platform, has reportedly joined the network panel of Commercial Finance Brokers UK (CFBUK) so that its members are able to gain access to the lender’s buy-to-let products and services. CFBUK is recognized as a leading “whole of market” commercial finance… Read More

November 16, 2020 @ 10:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Onfido, a global ID verification solution provider, will be working with Voi, an e-scooter rental operator The UK has opened up to e-scooters and companies like Voi have been running trial rental services in the West Midlands, Cambridge, Northampton, Liverpool, Bath, and Bristol areas. Voi… Read More

November 16, 2020 @ 7:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Banco Santander S.A. (Santander Group) (BME:SAN), the world’s 16th-largest banking institution and financial services company based in Madrid, has been focused on cost-cutting measures in order to deal with the economic challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Banco Santander along with other Spanish lenders are… Read More

November 16, 2020 @ 7:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Phillip Liu, GM at Alibaba Cloud Intelligence for the MENA region, recently commented on what’s required for regional Fintech firms to succeed in an increasingly competitive global environment. Fintech platforms are beginning to transform the traditional financial services sector. Fintech companies have developed solutions to… Read More