February 8, 2024 @ 11:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nuvei Corporation (Nasdaq: NVEI), the Canadian fintech company, announces that it is launching its enhanced omnichannel payments solution for merchants and platforms. Nuvei’s unified commerce offering, which is now available to customers “operating outside of North America for the first time, is enabling businesses to… Read More

February 8, 2024 @ 11:09 am By JD Alois  |  

EstateGuru, an online investment platform based in Estonia, has provided some insight into operations in 2023 According to the online lender, investors contributed €101.9 million to the marketplace. This can be segregated by €92.7 million from retail investors and  €9.2 million from institutional investors. The… Read More

February 8, 2024 @ 10:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm BitGo is moving into the more traditional securities sector. According to a corporate release, Bitgo has acquired Brassica – a Fintech providing digital infrastructure services to facilitate private securities and other alternative investments. Details of the transaction were not immediately available. Focusing on institutions,… Read More

February 8, 2024 @ 9:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

B2C2, the crypto liquidity provider servicing institutional clients globally, has obtained regulatory approval to operate in Luxembourg and expand its EU presence. B2C2 has become the 12th virtual asset service provider (VASP) to “be officially registered on the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier’s (CSSF)… Read More

February 8, 2024 @ 9:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Financement Participatif France (FPF), the French crowdfunding association, has partnered with Mazars to produce its 5th annual Crowdfunding Barometer – tracking the performance of online capital formation in the second-largest economy in Europe. Mazars is a global, France-based accounting and consulting agency. The report covers… Read More

February 8, 2024 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European Regulatory Technology (RegTech) scale-up Salv has broken new ground by becoming the first technology firm in Europe to secure a regulator-awarded license to operate as a ‘Closed Service KYC Utility’ service provider. The license, granted five years after the standards and regulations were established… Read More

February 8, 2024 @ 8:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blend Network, the specialist development finance lender, has reportedly acquired a new £50 million+ institutional funding line in order to provide bridging to property developers in the United Kingdom. This latest form of support via newly committed capital to be deployed by the Blend Network… Read More

February 8, 2024 @ 7:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Napier, the London-based global financial crime compliance Regtech, is pleased to announce that its Anti Money Laundering (AML) platform, Napier Continuum is now available through two new service offerings: Napier Continuum Live and Napier Continuum Flow. These new solutions deliver Napier’s experience in “helping financial… Read More

February 8, 2024 @ 6:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Linqto, the financial technology investment platform democratizing access to private markets for accredited investors, announced that Geno Zawrotny has been appointed as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer. Zawrotny brings more than two decades of experience to Linqto “with expertise across industry sectors, including public equities,… Read More

February 8, 2024 @ 5:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ChargeAfter, the embedded lending platform for point-of-sale financing announced that Citi Retail Services, one of North America’s largest and most experienced retail payments and credit solution providers, selected ChargeAfter as a technology provider “for its Citi Pay products, including Citi Pay Credit and Citi Pay… Read More

February 7, 2024 @ 11:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tuum has reportedly secured a € 25m Series B investment, spearheaded by CommerzVentures and “bolstered by Speedinvest, along with the continued support of our existing investors.” Tuum‘s said the funding round underpinned their “dedication to spearhead a banking revolution with agile, expansive solutions.” Tuum has… Read More

February 7, 2024 @ 9:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Inbank has entered into a partnership with Montonio, a provider of checkout solutions in Estonia. The initial phase of the partnership will “be rolled out in Estonia, with future plans to expand to other markets.” Montonio is known for offering “a range of payment and… Read More

February 7, 2024 @ 7:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Institutional digital asset infrastructure firm Paxos is integrating Chainlink’s PayPal USD price feed to accelerate the tokenization economy. Paxos also wants to boost the adoption of PYUSD – a dollar-based stablecoin powered by Paxos and issued by PayPal. At the same time, Chainlink and Paxos… Read More

February 7, 2024 @ 6:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Liberis, an embedded finance provider, has partnered with Alloy, an identity risk management company working with 500 global banks and Fintechs. The partnership is expected to enable Liberis to simplify the merchant experience by integrating automated compliance verifications. Additionally, it will facilitate “the creation of… Read More

February 7, 2024 @ 6:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NovoPayment, a mission-critical financial and payments infrastructure provider, announced today that it has received Mastercard certification, as part of the Mastercard Network Enablement Partner program, to switch and process Mastercard transactions in Mexico. The Network Enablement Partner (NEP) program is “a Mastercard initiative that enables… Read More

February 7, 2024 @ 6:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

B2B payments platform Sprinque announces a partnership with Mangopay, a modular and flexible payment infrastructure provider for marketplaces and platforms. The collaboration enables merchants and marketplaces “to take advantage of holistic and customisable payments infrastructures and terms, allowing them to grow revenues by tapping into… Read More

February 7, 2024 @ 6:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ant International, a digital payment and financial services leader dedicated to building an inclusive and sustainable global commerce ecosystem, is expanding its existing partnership with Yapily, the European open banking platform to introduce Europe’s first-ever commercial variable recurring payments (VRPs) for e-commerce via Open Banking… Read More

February 7, 2024 @ 1:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed another enforcement action targeting a digital asset firm. The SEC has filed charges against TradeStation Crypto, alleging an unregistered offering of a “crypto asset lending product.” TradeStation Crypto has settled the charges without admitting or denying the… Read More

February 7, 2024 @ 12:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kin, the digital, direct-to-consumer home insurance company, announced the closing of $15 million in financing from new investor Activate Capital, a growth-stage VC firm focused on the sustainable, resilient transformation of the global economy. Raising at an increased valuation, greater than $1 billion, is an… Read More

February 7, 2024 @ 11:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Germany-based Moonfare says it will soon provide access to retail investors to “top tier” private equity managers following the introduction of new EU regulations last month. Additionally, limited secondary trading is available on the platform. The new rules came into effect on January 10, 2024…. Read More