Tagged: bulgaria

September 5, 2023 @ 1:41 am By Michael Wong  |  

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has proposed a sustainability-linked financing package of €150 million to support Lion’s Head Investments AD (LHI), a commercial property investment platform in Bulgaria and Romania. The investment will be used for the acquisition… Read More

July 18, 2023 @ 10:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Payhawk, a global spend management solution, has launched in Lithuania and opened a local office in Vilnius. Having recently obtained an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license from the Bank of Lithuania, the company is looking “to hire a team of finance professionals that will help… Read More

July 18, 2023 @ 8:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Online investment platform SeedBlink is raising money for Dronamics for the second time. SeedBlink is a European securities crowdfunding platform that seeks to list private securities for firms raising capital from VCs as well. SeedBlink is approved under ECSPR and thus can raise funds across… Read More

May 29, 2023 @ 11:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Following an initial €2.5 million from the Bulgarian Development Bank’s (BDB) Capital Investment Fund in February, Evrotrust eID is now part of the national eID program in Bulgaria. Bulgarian individuals and businesses will be able to access EU public services digitally from their mobile phones…. Read More

March 9, 2023 @ 9:02 am By JD Alois  |  

SeedBlink, a European securities crowdfunding platform that is based in Bulgaria but is expanding across Europe, has announced the launch of a secondary trading marketplace, thus providing liquidity for private securities. SeedBlink received its ECSPR approval last fall, enabling it to solicit investors across all… Read More

January 13, 2023 @ 4:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

It has not been that long since Nexo decided to exit the US market, but in recent days the offices of Nexo have been raided in Bulgaria according to multiple reports. While based in London, Nexo is affiliated with a former member of the Bulgarian… Read More

December 28, 2022 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockforia.com, a Bulgarian cryptocurrency exchange, is announcing the go-live of its platform  as 2022 comes to an end. The company reports that it will first begin “accepting customers in selected EU jurisdictions, while further expansion is expected to continue in 2023.” Whilst expanding its global… Read More

December 21, 2022 @ 11:58 am By JD Alois  |  

SeedBlink, a co-investment platform, says it has raised €150 million in funding since its launch in 2019. In Bulgaria, its home market, SeedBlink reports having raised €2.69 million since launching domestically. SeedBlink claims more than 200 investment partners, including Bulgarian Eleven Ventures, LAUNCHub Ventures, Silverline… Read More

December 18, 2022 @ 2:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm Gemini says it’s pleased to announce that individuals and institutions in Greece and Bulgaria can now “open a Gemini account to deposit, trade, and custody over 100 cryptocurrencies.” Consumers in these additional two markets “can securely access Gemini’s website or mobile app… Read More

November 7, 2022 @ 7:49 am By JD Alois  |  

SeedBlink has been approved to provide investment crowdfunding across all EU member states. SeedBlink joins a handful of other platforms able to sell securities under ECSPR (European Crowdfunding Services Providers Regulation). SeedBlink noted that it is the first CEE country to be authorized under the… Read More

April 1, 2022 @ 6:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

AQRU plc (AQSE: AQRU), a DeFi incubator, has issued a statement that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Accru Finance Ltd., has signed up over 10,000 customer accounts and reached £16.5 million in assets under management (AUM) on its cryptocurrency yield-generating platform, AQRU.io. According to the website, users… Read More

March 2, 2022 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Payhawk, the payment and expense solution with offices in London, Sofia, Berlin, and Barcelona, has secured an additional $100 million in order to extend its Series B round to $215 million. The Fintech firm’s Series B extension was reportedly “raised at a valuation of $1… Read More

January 17, 2022 @ 4:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Valentin Mihov, Co-founder, and Chief Investment Officer at Finexify, a boutique investment company that offers an opportunity to gain exposure to the decentralized finance (DeFi) space. The team at Finexify thinks that limited access to DeFi means “extraordinary” alpha with limited… Read More

December 6, 2021 @ 5:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The announcement shared below was reportedly provided to AS Mintos Marketplace (Mintos) by Eleving Group, a cooperation partner of Mintos that provides various investment opportunities via Mntos.com. Following Eleving Group’s strategy to consolidate investments in its “best-performing markets, a decision has been made to exit… Read More

October 16, 2021 @ 10:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

During the market recovery following the Coronavirus crisis, European peer-to-peer platforms that emerged by 2017 have managed to rebound “at above-market growth rate,” according to a report from Robo.cash. The Croatian P2P lender noted that “calm upward trend is supported by a 2% increase in… Read More

July 9, 2021 @ 2:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The last generation ONE wallet, a newly-launched mobile wallet by Postbank Bulgaria, a member of the Eurobank Group, is the latest service created with assistance from global tech firm, Software Group . Based on Software Group’s Mobile Wallet platform, ONE wallet is a last-generation high-tech… Read More

May 13, 2021 @ 8:22 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Insurify, an AI-powered insurance comparison platform that’s based in the U.S., announced on Thursday it has opened a new office in Bulgaria. The company also revealed it is growing its in-home insurance agency. Founded in 2013, Insurify stated its mission is to fix the broken… Read More

March 10, 2021 @ 11:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stanimir Vassilev, Co-Founder at Management Financial Group (MFG), reveals that Settle is now live in Bulgaria. Vassilev confirmed that Bulgarians are now able to send and receive money “instantly for free” with this new Fintech app that requires “no top-up.” He also mentioned that local… Read More

March 4, 2021 @ 8:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital bank Revolut is expanding its banking services in 10 new European markets. According to a release, customers in the following countries may now utilize the Revolut banking app: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Malta, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. Revolut, which currently claims over… Read More

February 19, 2021 @ 2:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nina Stoyanova, Deputy Governor and Head of the Banking Department of the Bulgarian National Bank, has noted that digital technologies have significantly changed the financial services provision business, and the payment sector is “the leader in this trend.” Stoyanova notes that the overall speed of… Read More