Tagged: carbon

November 22, 2022 @ 10:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Low carbon building practices, crucial to achieving greenhouse gas emissions targets, “attracted record levels of venture capital funding in 2022 with investment levels soaring to $2.2bn.” Venture capital raised by companies involved in green building design, building materials procurement and lower carbon construction methods “has… Read More

May 5, 2022 @ 9:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Keewe, a French Fintech in the eco sector, has raised €1.25 million for its mission to support SMEs and carbon reduction. The capital infusion cam from “selected business angels,” including Guillaume Amblard, (also Ledger, Lendable) and former head of trading and quantitative research at BNP… Read More

April 22, 2022 @ 5:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Germany-based Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) has partnered with Patch, a digital carbon credit marketplace, to provide bank customers with a payment solution. In a release, G+D said the partnership is an expansion of its ecosystem of eco-innovative partnerships that supports banks and Fintechs in their sustainability strategies…. Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 5:23 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

African Fintech platform Carbon today announced a five-year partnership with Visa which will see physical and digital credit cards offered to its customers. Visa will provide funding across the term for implementation and marketing support. In 2020 Carbon pivoted from digital lending to digital banking… Read More

December 14, 2020 @ 7:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Peer to peer (P2P) Bitcoin exchange Paxful has confirmed that ID verification will soon become mandatory for many different countries beginning this month (December 2020). Paxful claims it’s one of the few crypto-asset marketplaces that strictly enforce KYC (Know Your Customer) verification checks and procedures…. Read More

November 3, 2020 @ 3:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Payments platform Stripe recently announced the launch of its latest product that allows any online business to contribute funds to technologies that remove CO2 directly from the atmosphere. Stripe reported that its users may help counteract climate change by directing a fraction of their revenue… Read More

October 1, 2020 @ 2:55 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ripple, a provider of enterprise blockchain solutions for payments, announced on Wednesday it is committing to be carbon net-zero by 2030. Ripple claims it is the first company in the blockchain industry to do so and as part of achieving this goal, the company has… Read More

January 13, 2019 @ 9:29 pm By Filipe Castro  |  

Are stablecoins the future of cryptoassets? In the quest to develop a digital token with the decentralization aspects of bitcoin and none of the associated volatility has sparked interest from many. From talented tech teams, economists and VCs it seems stablecoin projects have the potential… Read More

December 21, 2018 @ 8:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

TD Bank announced on Friday it has released a progress report on advancing towards a transition to a low-carbon economy in North America. The banking group also reported it secured CAD$22 billion during its first year. In December 2017, TD set a target of a total of CAD$100 billion in… Read More