May 17, 2022 @ 3:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

inbestMe, a “smart” digital investment platform, “simple to use” and customized to deliver “better returns with lower costs,” has acquired 140% (€2,113,386) of its €1,500,000 target via Crowdcube from 171 investors (at the time of writing). After launching in Spain back in 2017, inbestMe claims… Read More

May 17, 2022 @ 12:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European lender Bondora says it’s pleased to announce their platform’s 5th consecutive year of profitability. With their solid foundation, Bondora continues to “offer intuitive products that empower [their] customers to spend, grow and save their money.” Over the past 14 years, the Bondora community of… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 11:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Big Data Exchange (BDx), a data center solutions provider in Asia Pacific, recently announced that it has entered a conditional sale and purchase agreement of shares (CSPA) and joint venture agreement, “together with a series of commercial and operational agreements, with PT Indosat Tbk (Indosat… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 11:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance, which claims to be the world’s “leading” cryptocurrency and blockchain infrastructure provider, has strengthened its team “with the recruitment of Jarek Jakubcek as the Head of Intelligence and Investigations for Asia-Pacific.” Jarek is “a leading global expert in cybercrime and former cryptocurrency specialist in… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 10:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Mintos is pleased to announce that Notes will be launching via the platform on 25 May 2022. In anticipation of the upcoming launch, Mintos has put together “some key information regarding the transition from the current set-up to investing in Notes.” As a licensed… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 8:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Following Kraken’s listings of Bifrost (BNC), Bonfida (FIDA), and Origin Protocol (OGN) for most countries, the digital asset firm is pleased to announce “the availability of these tokens for residents of the United States and Canada.” Funding and trading are now live. You may keep… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 7:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Grayscale has launched the first European exchange-traded fund (ETF). According to the firm, Grayscale Future of Finance UCITS ETF (ticker: GFOF) will trade on certain exchanges in Europe including the London Stock Exchange (LSE), Borsa Italiana, and Deutsche Börse Xetra. GFOF UCITS ETF will also be… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 7:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The group including Capital.com, the trading and investing platform “leading” the UK leveraged trading industry in “client satisfaction,” announced the appointment of Peter Hetherington as its Group Chief Executive Officer. Peter will “succeed Jonathan Squires, who was Group CEO during the Group’s early growth phase.”… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 6:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Krepling, one of the “fastest growing” digital commerce platforms on the market, recently  announced the launch of the “first” agnostic digital wallet for e-commerce, Krepling Pay. Unlike the platform’s existing competitors – Apple, Google, ShopPay – Krepling Pay is compatible “with every device and every… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 6:44 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

  Like everyone else, American consumers are looking for faster ways to make payments, the results of a survey by the Federal Reserve Banks suggest. Overall, 80% say they are interested in more immediate ways to pay businesses, with around 70% saying the option of… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 6:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sudozi, a financial software innovator, recently announced new solutions to help finance teams automate workflows and improve spend decisions, as well as “the close of a $4.3 million seed round led by Pear VC with participation from S3 Ventures and Mischief.” Founded by the former… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 6:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Oasis Pro Inc. has completed a “significantly” oversubscribed $27+M Series A financing round. As mentioned in an update shared with CI earlier this week, the financing “included existing investor UDHC and included other strategic investors such as Blizzard the Avalanche Fund, Inveniam, Redwood Trust (NYSE:RWT),… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 6:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nansen, the blockchain data analytics platform, announced that it will be “participating in an ongoing seed round for leading DeFi data platform APY.vision.” To coincide with its seed investment, Nansen will also be “completing a third-party data integration – one of the first times Nansen… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 6:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dave Inc. (Nasdaq: DAVE, DAVEW), a neobank on a mission to build products that “level the financial playing field,” recently reported its financial results “for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022.” Dave utilizes Evolve Bank & Trust to provide its digital financial services. Jason… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 5:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

EQONEX Limited (NASDAQ: EQOS), a digital assets financial services company, recently announced the appointment of Daniel Ling as Chief Financial Officer and Member of the Executive Committee, “effective immediately.” Daniel was recently appointed to the EQONEX Board of Directors “as part of the company’s strategic… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 2:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Trakx, an emerging Fintech firm offering “thematic” Crypto Tradable Indices (CTIs) via its registered Tier-1 trading platform, and LumRisk, a Swiss-based provider of risk consolidation, analysis and reporting services for institutional clients, recently announced an  alliance through which Trakx CTIs will reportedly “become the first… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 1:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Legal technology firm LawAdvisor Ventures has announced that it secured $5 million of investment across its portfolio of ventures in a seed round “involving some of the legal industry’s most influential thinkers.” The capital injection reportedly “includes investment from Ralph Baxter (former Chairman and CEO… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 1:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Millions of Brits hold a driving license but don’t have “access to a car,” according to an update shared with CI. The “rigid” nature and upfront cost of annual car insurance combined with continuously rising costs of running a car “prompted” car insurance provider, Cuvva… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 1:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Osmosis, the Cosmos-based interchain automatic market maker (AMM), recently announced the launch of the Osmosis Grants Program. Created following a successful on-chain governance vote, the Osmosis Grants Program “funds community-built tooling and infrastructure to grow the long-term utility of Osmosis and increase its user base.”… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 7:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Monoova, a B2B payments solutions provider, and TrueLayer, a key player in open banking, are teaming up to harness financial and identity insights using Australia’s Consumer Data Right (CDR) “for smarter, faster, data-enabled payments in the Australian market.” The benefits of the combination of CDR… Read More