December 12, 2021 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

HOKO // The Homeowner’s Architect has raised 89% (£446,973) of its £500,000 target (at the time of writing) from 251 investors via its crowdfunding campaign carried out through Crowdcube. Currently, there are 11 days left in the firm’s campaign. The UK-based company reports a £15,000,000… Read More

December 12, 2021 @ 3:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Alter, formerly doing business as Altermail, reports that it has raised USD$ 1 million in seed funding. The venture capital firms participating in the funding round include Sky Vision Capital, Iconium, Magnus Capital, Sienna Network, Secret Swap, R930 Capital, Xavier Venture Group and Crypto Jalal… Read More

December 12, 2021 @ 3:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Beginning on December 9, 2021, API3 (API3), Bluzelle (BLZ), Circuits of Value (COVAL), Gods Unchained (GODS), Immutable X (IMX), Measurable Data Token (MDT), mStable USD (MUSD) and Ribbon Finance (RBN) are available on Coinbase.com and via the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) clients… Read More

December 12, 2021 @ 2:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s P2P lender Blend Network notes that as we approach the year-end, they wanted to do a “throwback to some of the landmark projects we funded in 2021.” The Blend Network team writes in a blog post that they have shared some of the schemes… Read More

December 12, 2021 @ 1:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis recently announced product support for the Lightning Network (LN), which is a Layer-2 protocol built on the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain that enables “faster, cheaper transactions.” With Lightning, small, recurring transactions that wouldn’t be economical to carry out on the blockchain due… Read More

December 12, 2021 @ 1:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Two-thirds of the UK’s small business leaders (63%) feel “lonely” in their role, which could prevent their firm from “reaching its full potential,” according to an update from UK-based digital bank Starling. Of 1,046 business leaders surveyed by Starling Bank, seven in ten (70%) say… Read More

December 12, 2021 @ 1:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Taavet Hinriku, the Co-founder of UK-based Fintech Wise (LSE:WISE) (formerly doing business as TransferWise), has reportedly stepped down from his position as company chairperson and Director. The former CFO at Netflix, David Wells, will be replacing Hinriku with immediate effect (as reported on December 10,… Read More

December 12, 2021 @ 12:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset platform CoinList is pleased to confirm that registrations for the pSTAKE Token Sale are currently open. pSTAKE is the protocol that “unlocks liquidity for your staked assets,” the update from CoinList explained. The company also mentioned that with pSTAKE, you can “stake your… Read More

December 12, 2021 @ 12:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Empower Oversight Whistleblowers & Research (EMPOWR) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to enhancing independent oversight of government and corporate wrongdoing, has filed a lawsuit challenging the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to disclose conflicts of interest regarding the regulation of crypto. EMPOWR has filed… Read More

December 12, 2021 @ 12:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital lending software provider Blend (NYSE:BLND) notes that the need to keep up with evolving customer behavior in retail and online banking is “not a new pursuit for financial services organizations, but it is becoming increasingly more important.” According to Blend, that’s because the market… Read More

December 12, 2021 @ 12:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Green Fintech firm Sugi has reportedly teamed up with Artorius in order to provide the wealth manager’s customers with access to environmental metrics that may help them with building “greener” investment portfolios. Sugi says that its mission is to transform green investing. The company wants… Read More

December 11, 2021 @ 3:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

Elron Ventures, an Israeli early-stage investment firm, has added multiple “domain experts” to join their Advisory Board. They are Jeff Trudeau, CISO of Chime, Gil Gur Arie, Chief Global Data Insights & Analytics at Ford Motor Company, Al Ghous, CISO of Snapdocs and Co-Founder of… Read More

December 11, 2021 @ 3:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Edfundo, the transformative smart money management app for kids and teens living in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has appointed industry specialists to its advisory board. Joining the board are Saudi-headquartered Fintech & Business Development specialist Saleh AlHammad, UK‘s Finance & Emerging Payments professional David… Read More

December 11, 2021 @ 3:46 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

MENA open banking platform Tarabut Gateway this week announced a partnership with Zain Bahrain to provide the region’s first use case of open banking payments within a telco app. The companies said this is the first time a regional telecom provider has used open banking… Read More

December 11, 2021 @ 3:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Norwegian climate and expense management developer Sonya has reportedly entered a partnership agreement with Swedish impact technology provider, Doconomy. As noted by its management, Doconomy aims to “provide digital solutions to help us all live in a more sustainable way.” The company added: “We believe… Read More

December 11, 2021 @ 1:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Trulioo, the international identity verification firm, recently announced the addition of U.S. Student Records to the Trulioo Global Gateway marketplace of identity services “supporting compliance, know your customer (KYC), and anti-money laundering (AML) solutions.” With the addition of this service, Trulioo clients may now “verify… Read More

December 11, 2021 @ 12:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nervos will reportedly be integrating the Kava network with their cross-chain Force Bridge product to “enable the bridging of liquidity between Kava and Nervos.” As explained in a blog post, the integration will allow for “the movement of native assets between the chains, giving $CKB… Read More

December 11, 2021 @ 11:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Following the announcement of a crypto-focused partnership with Sygnum Bank earlier in 2021,  Bordier & Cie, a Swiss private banking institution established in 1844, is confirming that it’s notably the first bank in Switzerland to enter a strategic partnership with Moonfare, the private equity Fintech… Read More

December 11, 2021 @ 11:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jumio, the provider of AI-enhanced end-to-end identity orchestration, eKYC and AML solutions, recently announced that the firm is acquiring strategic partner 4Stop, the data marketplace and orchestration hub for KYB, KYC, compliance and fraud prevention. The addition of 4Stop’s data sources to the Jumio KYX… Read More

December 10, 2021 @ 7:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ZSuite Technologies, a financial tech firm that powers community financial institutions with digital escrow products for various commercial verticals, has announced its API integration with Q2’s Digital Banking Platform, “leveraging the Q2 Innovation Studio.” Via the integration, Q2 customers will be able to “take advantage… Read More