Tagged: covid-19

March 29, 2020 @ 3:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brett King established Movenbank back in 2011. At the time, it was one of the world’s very first mobile-only, low-fee banking services. Movenbank offered a convenient and intuitive banking app that allowed users to take care of their day-to-day financial transactions. King won the Innovator… Read More

March 29, 2020 @ 2:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Several reports from media outlets have claimed that China’s Blockchain Service Network will be introduced next month. However, these reports seem to be coming from local sources, which made the announcements before China’s first fatality due to the coronavirus (COVID-19). In October of last year,… Read More

March 29, 2020 @ 12:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Zopa, which recently celebrated 15 years of operation, says that its services are up and running, even during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Zopa, which provides online lending services in a fund based fashion, notes in a blog post that customers can access their loan… Read More

March 28, 2020 @ 9:00 pm By Xu Gao  |  

How Did the Chinese Fintech Industry Respond to COVID-19? With the outbreak of the COVID-19, more and more people and groups have joined the fight against it. Among the entities, Fintech companies are giving full play to their advantages in providing financial services, contributing technical… Read More

March 28, 2020 @ 8:58 am By Barry James  |  

Why we may not be surprised but we must be outraged! The banks are a danger to our society – and, according to the BIS (the Centralbank’s Central Bank)  an unnecessary one at that. The UK government has over the last two weeks taken unprecedented… Read More

March 28, 2020 @ 8:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A decentralized application (dApp) created at the University of Malta is helping Master students in Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies to cast their votes for student representatives, for the very first time, using blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT). Dr. Joshua Ellul, director at the… Read More

March 27, 2020 @ 6:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

National Bank of Oman (NBO), one of the largest financial institutions in the country and its first local bank, aims to raise awareness regarding the importance of practicing safe banking during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The NBO has taken several measures to ensure its clients… Read More

March 27, 2020 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sydney-based Tyro Payments (ASX: TYR), an Australian Fintech institution that specializes in merchant credit, debit and EFTPOS acquiring, reports that its transaction volumes during the past three weeks have been steadily increasing. Tyro Payments notes that from March 1 to March 20, there was a… Read More

March 27, 2020 @ 1:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-headquartered Capitalise.com is offering Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) applications, which will allow small business owners to obtain government-backed loans (if approved). Capitalise.com noted that it aims to assist businesses by giving them access to funding which  they may require to “confidently navigate this… Read More

March 27, 2020 @ 11:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based Fintech Ripple has announced that it will be donating $200,000 to two different non-profit entities. The donations have been made to help combat and prevent the further spread of the deadly and highly contagious coronavirus (COVID-19). There are now over 532,000 reported coronavirus… Read More

March 27, 2020 @ 10:13 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) announced on Friday it is donating $3 million to support communities in which it serves across the U.S. Latin America and Canada, as well as clients and colleagues, that are affected by the coronavirus pandemic.  MUFG reported that in… Read More

March 27, 2020 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Securitize, a platform for the issuance and management of compliant, blockchain-based digital securities, has noted that it wants to reassure the Securitize community that it is “well-positioned to weather these challenging conditions with nominal disruption.” Securitize’s statements have come in response to the deadly coronavirus… Read More

March 27, 2020 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Trade Ledger, an online lending platform; Wiserfunding, a digital credit scoring platform for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); Nimbla, a trade credit insurance provider; and NorthRow, a remote client onboarding platform have formed a Fintech taskforce. The taskforce aims to offer an origination and underwriting… Read More

March 26, 2020 @ 6:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI), a local, non-profit umbrella organization for operating retail payments and settlement systems in the country, has requested the nation’s residents to make digital payments in order to reduce physical contact during the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The NPCI,… Read More

March 26, 2020 @ 2:57 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

The CDC Foundation recently announced cleaning product giant Lysol has donated $2 million to the CDC Foundation’s new Coronavirus campaign, “All of Us: Combat Coronavirus.” According to the CDC Foundation, the campaign is raising support to bolster public health response efforts to address the COVID-19 pandemic…. Read More

March 26, 2020 @ 2:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Leading Reg CF crowdfunding platform Wefunder announced earlier this week a new loan product to help small businesses struggling with the economic impact of coronavirus. According to WeFunder, the Coronavirus Crisis Loan, is available now to any small business, enables businesses to crowdfund a loan… Read More

March 26, 2020 @ 11:14 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Private lending syndication platform CrowdOut Capital announced on Wednesday its continued support to Punch Bowl Social as the restaurant group works to navigate through the difficult times during the COVID-19 outbreak. According to CrowdOut, Punch Bowl Social is claimed to be the first experiential food… Read More

March 26, 2020 @ 10:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Linked Finance, an Ireland-based peer to peer lender, has announced a new product for businesses impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. The online lender is now offering a “Deferred Start Loan” that includes no payments for the first three months of the security. The 15-month loan… Read More

March 26, 2020 @ 9:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Late last week, the UK’s largest investment crowdfunding platform Crowdcube posted an update based on the impact of COVID-19. Crowdcube said it anticipated that raising capital will now take longer than usual: “… we suggest allowing for longer lead times when considering your next funding… Read More

March 25, 2020 @ 9:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New York-based Fintech OLB Group, a digital commerce solution provider that offers outsourced private label shopping solutions to large websites and retail outlets, has introduced measures and initiatives to help reduce their risks and to ensure stakeholder protection as the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak continues to… Read More