Tagged: EU

June 30, 2022 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global financial services platform iBanFirst recently confirmed the acquisition of the London-headquartered FX provider, Cornhill. The strategic acquisition aims to further build on iBanFirst’s funding partnership with private equity company arlin Equity Partners, launched in June of last year. As mentioned in the update, this… Read More

June 27, 2022 @ 8:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Securitize, a security token issuance platform and digital security trading market, has announced its expansion into Europe. Securitize has been approved by the Spanish General Secretariat of the Treasury and International Finance to enter its experimental program or Fintech sandbox where Securitize will serve a… Read More

June 25, 2022 @ 11:28 am By JD Alois  |  

PSD2 or the European Payment Services Directive 2, has been in force since 2016 but payment services providers had until 2018 to adhere to the rules. The EU directive requires providers to incorporate heightened authentication features as well as taking aim at APIs that may… Read More

June 24, 2022 @ 4:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinLoan, which claims to be the only EU-licensed provider of crypto-loan products, has announced a partnership with Elliptic, the global “leader” in crypto-asset risk management. As adoption and investment into crypto continues to increase, “so does the risk of cybercrime.” The range of crypto-assets and… Read More

June 14, 2022 @ 6:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fundvest is a solution for consumers who are looking to grow their wealth. It is a user-friendly savings and investments platform that aims to assist clients with focusing on their long-term financial strategy. It will provide access to EU and US stock exchanges and maintain… Read More

June 7, 2022 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Trovata, a US-based firm focused on automating cash reporting and forecasting via wholesale, multi-bank API data aggregation, is preparing to launch operations in the United Kingdom on the back of a $27 million round. As noted by Sky News, Trovata, which maintains head offices in… Read More

May 28, 2022 @ 2:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

Seedrs, one of the largest securities crowdfunding platforms in the world, has launched a Dutch facing section of its website as it positions itself to benefit from pan-European investment crowdfunding rules. New rules were issued by the European Union in November of 2021. Currently, many… Read More

May 15, 2022 @ 3:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ID-Pal, the identity verification provider, recently revealed that it is entering the UK market after six years of steady growth across Ireland, the US and the European Union. This move has reportedly been planned due to increasing levels of identity fraud and the growing complexity… Read More

May 3, 2022 @ 7:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) is at least one of the firms that called up the European Commission to complain about Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and its Apple Pay offering pushing the competition ministry to pursue possible anti-trust violations, according to a report in Bloomberg. This is not the first… Read More

May 2, 2022 @ 7:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Margrethe Vestager, EU Executive VP, Competition Policy, is pursuing big tech once again, this time hitting Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) with anti-trust charges. Today in a public statement, the European Commission said it has sent a Statement of Objections to Apple regarding its view that it abused its… Read More

April 28, 2022 @ 4:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Big tech firm and iPhone creator Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is going to be hammered once again by the European Union. This time with accusations that Apple Pay is anti-competitive. Apple Pay was introduced by Apple in 2014 along with iPhone 6 and has been slowly rolled… Read More

April 21, 2022 @ 9:25 am By JD Alois  |  

European unicorn Qonto has easily topped its crowdfunding goal utilizing Crowdcube. Qonto is a Payment Institution regulated, approved and supervised by the French Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR). Qonto, a company that has already raised €486 million in Series D funding, stated earlier… Read More

April 18, 2022 @ 7:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), an international provider of data, tech and market infrastructure, has announced the launch of a data solution for the European Union Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (EU SFDR). By requiring more transparency and standardization in the products offered by asset managers,… Read More

April 14, 2022 @ 10:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fasset, an international digital asset gateway, has announced its entrance into the European Union after it secured a cryptocurrency authorization. With the authorization, Fasset will strengthen its global operations “to serve the growing digital asset sector in the EU market and beyond.” Fasset previously “secured… Read More

April 12, 2022 @ 10:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

As has been previously reported, the European Union has approved pan-European securities crowdfunding or European Crowdfunding Service Providers Regulation (ECSPR). This means that issuers may solicit investors across all 28 EU member states. The new regulation enables early-stage firms to raise up to €5 million. Previously,… Read More

April 11, 2022 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CYTRIO, a data privacy compliance company, has added support for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to its all-in-one, cloud-native data privacy rights management automation solution. GDPR impacts any company, “regardless of location, that collects, uses, shares, or stores personal information from European… Read More

April 5, 2022 @ 8:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube is accelerating in France. That is how the new French version of Crowdcube announces itself. Crowdcube is one of the largest securities crowdfunding platforms in the UK as well as Europe. Having long operated in Europe, recent rule changes will make it easier for… Read More

March 28, 2022 @ 10:42 am By JD Alois  |  

New rules in Europe designed to stymie illicit activity may go too far, according to Coinbase. New Transfer of Funds Regulation “would unleash an entire surveillance regime on exchanges,” explains the crypto exchange. In a blog post, Coinbase states that “bad facts, make bad law,”… Read More

March 14, 2022 @ 3:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier today, the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, of the European Parliament,  adopted its “negotiating position on crypto assets. According to a statement by the EU parliament its goal is to “boost users’ confidence and support the development of digital services and alternative payment instruments.”… Read More

March 14, 2022 @ 11:24 am By JD Alois  |  

David Marcus was previously the head of Facebook / Meta’s (NASDAQ:FB) initiative to create a non-sovereign global digital currency. First branded as Libra, and then as Diem, the digital currency launched with much fanfare but eventually sputtered – largely due to global regulatory pushback that made… Read More