Tagged: europe

December 6, 2022 @ 7:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The New Year holidays are rapidly approaching. While you are making a gift shopping list, investment platform Robo.cash shares the key results from November. As noted in the update from Robocash, investors “bought loans in the record amount of 21M euro.” 696 P2P enthusiasts reportedly… Read More

December 6, 2022 @ 3:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Imployable, which claims to be a unique, award winning app that’s at the “heart” of an employment ecosystem, has secured 60% (£150,141.81) of its £250,000 target (with 7 days in the sale, at the time of writing) from 112 investors via Crowdcube. Imployable is a… Read More

December 6, 2022 @ 9:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In November 2022, PeerBerry investors reportedly “funded €47,606,299 of loans and received €648,080 in interest.” 1183 new investors “joined the platform in November.” The average annual ROI (without loyalty interest) on PeerBerry in November “was 11.1%.” At the end of November, PeerBerry’s portfolio amounted “to… Read More

December 6, 2022 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

T8, a financial services and lifestyle platform built for the global mass affluent, has raised  237% (£3,322,350) of its £1,400,000 target (with 3 days left in the sale, at the time of writing) from 238 investors via its crowdfunding campaign, carried out through Seedrs. Located… Read More

December 5, 2022 @ 11:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Governing Council of the European Central Bank has reportedly decided to reschedule the launch of the Eurosystem Collateral Management System (ECMS) from 20 November 2023 to 8 April 2024. This decision was “taken to mitigate the impact of the rescheduled launch of T2, the… Read More

December 5, 2022 @ 8:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Currencycloud, which claims to be the expert in simplifying business in a multi-currency world, has partnered with Scottish start-up app Skedadle in order “to provide its users an easy, secure and seamless way to transfer money earned in-app while playing games on public transport.” Skedadle… Read More

December 5, 2022 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Euro Banking Association (EBA) released a report on “the use of real-time data in corporate liquidity management based on research by the EBA.” The objective of this paper is “to provide insight into how some companies already use real-time data in the liquidity management… Read More

December 5, 2022 @ 8:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The agreement with Commerzbank is a key milestone for the issuing solutions business of Nexi in Germany. Commerzbank has chosen Nets, part of the European PayTech Nexi Group, in order “to develop a streamlined and scalable solution for processing credit, debit, and prepaid cards which… Read More

December 5, 2022 @ 7:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

VeChain Foundation San Marino was pleased to debut as a silver partner of the Nitto ATP Finals, the grand finale of the ATP Tour, where the eight best tennis players in the world competed “for the final singles and double titles of the year, taking… Read More

December 4, 2022 @ 7:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank of London, which claims to be the next-generation technology company and the “world’s first” purpose-built global clearing, agency, and transaction bank, announced the appointment of Marc Jenkins as Chief Financial Officer UK – SMF 2, “subject to regulatory approval, and Member of the… Read More

December 4, 2022 @ 2:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Valour Inc., a technology company and the first and only publicly traded company that bridges the gap between traditional capital markets, Web3 and decentralized finance, announced a partnership with Autostock, a Swedish trading platform “to launch an automated trading strategy designed to capture weekly effects… Read More

December 4, 2022 @ 2:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nordic open banking provider, Neonomics, has decided to support UNICEF Norway in order “to make donating this holiday period easier and more secure by harnessing the power of open banking payments.” The holiday period is “the most important time of year for charities, but with… Read More

December 3, 2022 @ 2:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

To help customers manage their finances, Santander has launched two new tools on its Financial Support Hub, a Budget Calculator and Financial Health Check. These tools will “provide customers with advice on how to manage their finances, helping them to review their spending and budget… Read More

December 2, 2022 @ 3:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Regtech startup docStribute has joined the Mia-Platform Partner Network. Effective immediately, docStribute solutions will be “available to businesses on the Mia-Platform Marketplace.” docStribute  uses “a distributed ledger application that utilizes a decentralized public network known as hashgraph, a secure, shared database that everyone can read… Read More

December 1, 2022 @ 10:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gillian Lynch, Head of Ireland and EU at Gemini, notes that they are pleased to announce that Gemini has “registered as a Virtual Currency Operator with Italy’s payments services regulator, the Organismo Agenti E Mediatori (OAM), and as a custodial wallet provider and provider of exchange services… Read More

December 1, 2022 @ 8:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Over the last year, the team at Assetz Capital have finally seen “substantial rises” in bank interest rates after well over ten years of them “languishing at near zero levels.” Assetz Capital noted in a blog post that this has led to the Access Accounts… Read More

December 1, 2022 @ 7:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Mintos are pleased to announce an improvement to how the Mintos Risk Score is displayed on the platform. Previously, they displayed Mintos Risk Scores “as whole numbers, for example, 7. But now, [they] display all Mintos Risk Scores rounded to one decimal… Read More

November 30, 2022 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Extending their joint strategic commitment to modernize and enhance shareholder voting in the French market, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR) and SLIB, a software editor for electronic voting and securities services based in France,  announced “the go-live of their joint end-to-end global voting solution.”… Read More

November 30, 2022 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ClearBank, which claims to be the largest next-generation clearing and embedded banking platform in the UK, and ThetaRay, provider of AI-powered transaction monitoring technology, announced they will “collaborate in cloud-native anti-money laundering (AML) monitoring to protect ClearBank against financial crime with ThetaRay’s robust and industry-leading… Read More

November 29, 2022 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In October, Bondora reveals it “saw favorable increases in investments and originations. Originations exceeded €15M, and investments €14M.” This puts Bondora on track “for a good Q4 in 2022.” Spanish originations “exceeded 1M once again.” In contrast to September, investments “for all products increased in… Read More