January 20, 2023 @ 7:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LendInvest (LSE: LINV), which claims to be the UK’s leading asset manager for property finance, announces increased funding from Lloyds Bank now totaling £300 million “to support its entry into the UK’s £1.2 trillion homeowner mortgage market.” LendInvest’s home owner mortgage product, “which beta launched… Read More

January 20, 2023 @ 7:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

KapitalKontroll, an innovative Norwegian provider of debt management and collection services has partnered with Neonomics in order “to launch a fully automated debt collection system that manages all payments through Neonomics open banking platform, enabling increased efficiency and security for its customers who include an… Read More

January 20, 2023 @ 7:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Allfunds (AMS:ALLFG), the B2B WealthTech platform for the funds industry, announces the appointment of Tom Wooders as UK Country Head. Tom will lead the UK business as it “continues to grow in size and prominence, as a key market in the European funds industry.” Tom… Read More

January 19, 2023 @ 7:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chronosphere, the cloud native observability platform that puts engineering organizations back in control by taming rampant data growth and cloud native complexity, has raised an additional $115 million Series C funding. New investors “include GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Geodesic Capital, bringing Chronosphere’s total funding… Read More

January 19, 2023 @ 7:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Payment solutions provider BPC has extended its collaboration with Bahrain-based International Payment Services B.S.C (IPS), a third party payments processing and payments firm. As part of the agreement, BPC will allow IPS “to extend the use of its open system e-payment platform ‘SmartVista’.” Headquartered in… Read More

January 19, 2023 @ 7:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Abacus Group, the provider of hosted IT services and solutions to alternative investment firms, announces that it has acquired two boutique cybersecurity consulting companies, Gotham Security and its parent company, GoVanguard, both of which have solid track records of excellence in the cyber arena. Gotham… Read More

January 19, 2023 @ 7:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Forter, the Trust Platform for digital commerce, announced the acquisition of Immue, a bot detection company based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Forter’s first acquisition will “not only strengthen the company’s existing fraud management capabilities but add Immue’s domain-specific bot expertise.” Bots are used “by the… Read More

January 19, 2023 @ 5:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

Beleaguered crypto firm Nexo has had to pony up a $45 million penalty following charges filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Without admitting or denying the SEC’s findings, Nexo agreed to a cease-and-desist order. Nexo had previously announced its exit from the United… Read More

January 19, 2023 @ 4:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

EquityZen founder and Chief Strategy Officer Phil Haslett is seeing a pick up in the secondary market, which can be seen as a precursor to traditional IPOs, according to an email from the firm. EquityZen is a top secondary trading platform for private securities. Since its… Read More

January 19, 2023 @ 3:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Obligate, formerly known as FQX, announced it has successfully closed a seed extension funding round, “allowing them to scale their blockchain-based platform for bonds and commercial paper.” Blockchange Ventures and Circle Ventures join initial seed co-investors Earlybird and SIX Fintech Ventures – “bringing the total… Read More

January 19, 2023 @ 12:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, and Zixiao (Gary) Wang, the former Chief Technology Officer of FTX Trading Ltd. (FTX), for their part in the “multi-year scheme” to commit fraud in regards to FTX, once… Read More

January 19, 2023 @ 12:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PayJunction, a developer of payment processing technology, announced an integration with Plaid, a consumer-permissioned network powering the digital financial ecosystem to simplify bank payments, “enabling PayJunction customers and partners to deliver a better pay-by-bank experience.” Integrating Plaid’s secure account-to-account (A2A) bank connectivity technology with PayJunction’s… Read More

January 19, 2023 @ 12:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a litigation release regarding allegations that Sam Bankman-Fried defrauded equity investors in FTX. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have also announced charges against Bankman-Fried…. Read More

January 19, 2023 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dock, an innovator in financial technology infrastructure across Latin America, has launched Dock One, an integrated cloud-based platform for banking and payments that “allows companies to easily scale business operations anywhere in the world by offering financial services enablement to their customers.” The innovative platform… Read More

January 19, 2023 @ 10:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nottingham Building Society has announced the appointment of Dr Gareth Hagger-Johnson as Director of Data Strategy (DDS). In this newly created role, Gareth will “develop a new data and insights framework for The Nottingham to increase the value of services to customers and deliver on… Read More

January 19, 2023 @ 9:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Spanish Fintech MONEI is reporting that it has received the “green light” from the Bank of Spain’s Fintech Sandbox to launch a digital Euro –  “EURM.” MONEI is a platform that aims to simplify and streamline digital payments, allowing any organization to integrate with Shopify… Read More

January 19, 2023 @ 9:29 am By JD Alois  |  

October, a European marketplace lending platform providing access to capital for SMEs, has received a €35 million commitment from the European Investment Fund (EIF) and Netherlands-based Invest-NL. The capital is split between the two entities with the EIF providing €20 million and Invest-NL the rest… Read More

January 19, 2023 @ 9:06 am By JD Alois  |  

  Jamie Dimon has returned to CNBC bashing crypto once again. In an interview at Davos, the CEO of JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM) was asked about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Dimon said he wondered out loud why CNBC spent so much time on crypto, calling Bitcoin a… Read More

January 19, 2023 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Anyfin, the scaleup that enables consumers to refinance existing loans and take control of their financial wellbeing, announces that it has completed a €30 million Series C funding round. The capital will “fuel the growth of its business across Europe, as well as helping Anyfin… Read More

January 19, 2023 @ 7:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

WeLab Bank, which claims to be the most innovative bank in Hong Kong, launched the Exclusive Limited-time Offer: Tesla-dedicated Loan with 0% APR “for selected Tesla owners and staff from selected organizations across Hong Kong.” Eligible customers will also “enjoy bonus offer including free supercharging1,… Read More