Tagged: digital money

June 9, 2021 @ 10:54 am By Priyanka Pani  |  

The Bank of England (BoE) has long indicated it is interested in new forms of digital currencies such as Stablecoins and central bank digital currencies. In the past, the Bank has wondered about the impact to monetary policy and possible risk regarding the issuance of… Read More

December 2, 2020 @ 9:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers at Fuse.io, a Tel Aviv based Fintech firm that aims to leverage (decentralized finance) DeFi infrastructure to create a platform for entrepreneurs that allows them to turn “communities into economies,” have partnered with Monerium in order to bring regulated fiat money to the… Read More

August 4, 2020 @ 12:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm SendGold, which describes itself as a Gold-as-a-Service (GaaS) platform, reports an 819% increase in transaction volume and a 311% growth in transaction size since January 2020. Established in 2016, SendGold is a peer to peer (P2P) digital money platform focused on serving the… Read More

July 9, 2020 @ 11:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

There were around 40 million people that were using Venmo for payments, as of Q1 2019. That’s notably 40 million users who are using an external app and not their regular bank accounts to transfer funds. Traditional banks appear to have become a secondary option… Read More

May 10, 2020 @ 6:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PT Cashlez Worldwide Indonesia, which is reportedly the nation’s first Fintech payment company to be publicly listed, saw its share price increase from Rp 350 (appr. $0.23) to Rp 384 within minutes after trading began on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). Cashlez said it will… Read More

April 24, 2020 @ 4:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Reserve banks must seriously look into issuing a digital version of cash in order to prevent the “privatization” of money, according to research and campaign group Positive Money. The group’s recent report argues that trust in the existing monetary system might disappear, if banks don’t… Read More

January 12, 2018 @ 9:29 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Manigo, a London-based single digital money platform, has successfully secured its initial funding target of £300,000 and is nearing £455,000 from more than 230 investors through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. As previously reported, Manigo was founded in 2015 and described as a one platform, on log-in, for… Read More

December 28, 2017 @ 12:19 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Manigo, a London-based single digital money platform, has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise £300,000. Founded in 2015, Manigo is described as a one platform, on log-in, for everything users need around money. It claims to be the world’s first digital ecosystem… Read More

November 19, 2014 @ 12:12 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

With the support of over 23 investors, Bitreserve, a money service that makes using digital money easy, fast and free, quickly posted over £4,6M of its £6M goal in funding for 10.70% equity offered through Venovate Marketplace, a U.S.-based brokerage platform for alternative investing, and London-based crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube. Bitreserve,… Read More

November 15, 2014 @ 12:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bitreserve, a money service that makes using digital money easy, fast and free, is raising funds through Venovate Marketplace, a U.S.-based brokerage platform for alternative investing, and London-based crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube. Raising funds on Venovate is spurred from the company’s belief that financing should be an… Read More