May 23, 2022 @ 8:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In April 2022, both originations and investment funding grew “strong” and set new highs for the year, according to an extensive update from Bondora. The European lender noted that loan originations “increased by 7.2% to €15,697,955 and investments by 7.3% to €15,548,882.” As mentioned in… Read More

May 23, 2022 @ 1:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The partnership will leverage the platform’s machine learning capabilities “to deploy new funding to UK small businesses over a two-year period.” Funding Circle, which claims to be the UK’s largest small business loan platform, and Waterfall, an institutional asset manager, recently announced their lending partnership… Read More

May 23, 2022 @ 12:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aave Companies recently announced the launch of Lens Protocol, an open-source tech stack for “building decentralized social networking applications.” Lens has been launched on Polygon’s “low-cost” and “eco-friendly” blockchain . Using Lens’ open-source blockchain tech, developers can now “build Web3-powered social media apps, marketplaces, recommendation… Read More

May 23, 2022 @ 12:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zipmex Group, a Southeast Asia-based digital asset platform, has invested in Forward, a Thai-based Fintech company specialized in DeFi Derivatives Trading, “backed by Genesis Block Ventures Capital is now valued at $50 million.” The investment, made by Zipmex’s business unit, Zipmex Labs, aims “to increase… Read More

May 22, 2022 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ForwardAI, a Fintech providing aggregated access to accounting & business data and analysis, announced its partnership with Fifo Capital, a provider of business finance solutions in Australia. Through the partnership, Fifo Capital will be “enhancing its business loan underwriting process using accounting, financial and cash-flow… Read More

May 22, 2022 @ 11:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TrueLayer, which claims to be one of Europe’s “leading” open banking platforms, recently announced that The Credit Thing has successfully “implemented its recurring payments API and made the first consumer Variable Recurring Payments (VRP) transactions in the UK.” The Competition and Markets Authority has mandated… Read More

May 22, 2022 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

StoneX Markets LLC, a subsidiary of StoneX Group Inc., a provider of execution, post-trade settlement, clearing and custody services across asset classes and markets worldwide, has announced that it successfully “executed and settled its first cash-settled BTC/USD swap.” The counterparty to the trade was one… Read More

May 22, 2022 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

P2P consumer lending platforms are the “most stable” in their growth, while the business segment is “increasing faster than the others,” the team at Croatian lender Robo.cash claims. Geographically, sustainable development is “mainly shown” by Croatian and Italian platforms, the Robo.cash writes in a blog… Read More

May 22, 2022 @ 10:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With a goal to build the infrastructure and deliver the tools that will power Web3, Ontology has been “focused on the Decentralized Identity (DID) field since day one. ONT ID is Ontology’s decentralized identity framework, designed to be both trustless and private, empowering users and… Read More

May 22, 2022 @ 6:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

This past week, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Chairman Charles Randell reviewed the challenges of securities regulation in a speech delivered at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London.  The FCA has played a key and vital role in enabling Fintech innovation… Read More

May 22, 2022 @ 5:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SpotOn, a software and payment company with comprehensive solutions for restaurants, retail businesses, and enterprise venues, recently announced $300 million in Series F funding, “raising its valuation to $3.6 billion.” The company will use the funding “to further develop technology products that enable businesses to… Read More

May 22, 2022 @ 4:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

C6 Bank has announced that it recently added new equity investment options to its C6 Invest platform. From now on, clients who were already able to trade mini dollar and index (Ibovespa) contracts since August last year “can also trade full futures contracts on the… Read More

May 22, 2022 @ 2:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nayms recently revealed that it became one of the world’s “first” crypto-native insurance marketplaces to become “fully-regulated” in Bermuda. They now hold both the full Digital Asset Business Act license and Innovative General Business Insurance license, “allowing their insurance partners to conduct regulated insurance business… Read More

May 22, 2022 @ 2:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde hammered cryptocurrencies this past week during an interview with a Dutch broadcaster according to a report in Bloomberg. Lagarde, an EU official who has long expressed her interest in digital assets, is quoted stating: “My very humble assessment… Read More

May 22, 2022 @ 12:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Security Token Group (STG), a venture studio focused on building financial infrastructure to support the growth and development of the security token industry, is pleased to announce the closure of the company’s $3 million Series A round, “led by Blue Bay Ventures, and including strategic… Read More

May 21, 2022 @ 10:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nexi, the Paytech in Europe, and Piteco, an Italian software house offering corporate treasury management and financial planning solutions, entered a partnership enabling large corporations and SMEs to access a digital payment solution. The service provides firms with an additional line of credit, along with… Read More

May 21, 2022 @ 9:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Deutsche Bank (ETR: DBK) recently announced its partnership with FinLync, a global fintech company offering products that are “transforming corporate finance and treasury offices.” FinLync’s pre-built API integrations and SAP-embedded treasury applications will “enable corporate treasury and finance teams to connect to Deutsche Bank’s API… Read More

May 21, 2022 @ 7:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

YAP, a Fintech streamlining the virtual banking experience in the MENA and South Asia region, has announced that it has been granted an In-Principle Approval (IPA) from the State Bank of Pakistan for an Electronic Money Institute (EMI) License. The approval provides “a tremendous opportunity… Read More

May 21, 2022 @ 5:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lavu, a major global restaurant software and payments solution provider built by restaurant people, and Verifone, a global Fintech firm and payment solution provider to the world’s “best-known” brands, announced a cross-distribution partnership that “will seamlessly integrate Lavu’s all-in-one restaurant software suite with Verifone’s FLEX… Read More

May 21, 2022 @ 5:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Round13, a Canadian VC firm with approximately $700 million in assets under management, has introduced a “dedicated” fund to invest in the emerging blockchain and digital asset market. As noted in an update shared with CI, the crypto native fund has “raised US$70 million of… Read More