Tagged: europe

November 9, 2022 @ 9:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CaixaBank Research, the Research Service of CaixaBank, has launched its “Real-Time Economics” website, which is described as “the most complete initiative of its kind in the world, offering quality information practically in real time on the country’s economic reality.” The company’s Research Service is “making… Read More

November 9, 2022 @ 11:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UBS AG (SWX: UBSG) recently priced its inaugural senior unsecured digital bond, “a 375 million Swiss franc-denominated three-year bond with 2.33% coupon (ISIN: CH1228837865).” The digital bond has “the same instrument structure, legal status and rating as a traditional UBS AG senior unsecured note but… Read More

November 9, 2022 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a global player focused on payment services, announced the signing of a binding agreement for the acquisition of Banco Desio’s merchant acquiring activities and the planned set-up of a commercial partnership “aiming to leverage Banco Desio’s banking network in order to distribute… Read More

November 8, 2022 @ 7:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

One of Europe’s “fastest-growing” digital currency exchanges Coinmetro has closed an interim funding round of EUR 7million, “valuing the company at EUR 180million.” The “community-driven” exchange claims it has become “a go-to platform for jaded customers from some of the more established cryptocurrency platforms, with… Read More

November 7, 2022 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

International insurtech bolttech recetnly announced the expansion of its existing partnership with WINDTRE with the launch of “a new ‘Reload exChange’ trade-in program in Italy.” With this new product, WINDTRE customers can now “trade-in their used phones in-store and receive cash payments directly to their… Read More

November 7, 2022 @ 3:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

impak Ratings, an impact analysis, and ratings Fintech, acquires 100% of London-based Exerica’s assets to expand its AI capabilities. Exerica’s entire team will be “integrated into impak’s production processes along with its proprietary AI data extraction and contextualization software.” This will “increase production capacity for… Read More

November 7, 2022 @ 12:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Skilling are pleased to announce that they’ve partnered with TradingView. Skilling claims it is “the first Scandinavian-founded broker to have integrated with TradingView’s leading charting and trading platform.” This strategic integration is “part of [their] mission to provide easy, all-in-one access to… Read More

November 7, 2022 @ 12:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global fund data and technology company FE fundinfo has expanded the range of ESG data it provides to MSCI and its clients. Through the agreement, MSCI will “gain access to FE fundinfo’s full universe of European ESG Template (EET) data.” EET data plays “a critical… Read More

November 7, 2022 @ 9:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BlueSnap, the payment orchestration platform for B2B and B2C businesses, has expanded its partnership with eCommerce agency, objectsource in order “to support online sellers across Europe.” The paytech firm has teamed up with the London-based consultancy “to enhance its integration with popular shopping cart plug-in… Read More

November 7, 2022 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a global player focused on payment services, has integrated its Fraud Management Suite into the issuing platform of Finnish bank S-Bank. Supported by Worldline technology, S-Bank will “deploy extensive real-time fraud detection for debit and credit cards whilst increasing the efficiency of… Read More

November 7, 2022 @ 7:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Plend is pleased to announce that they have raised £40 million in seed funding with new investors “including Leon & Soho House backers Active Partners, plus Velocity Juice, Sivo and the founders from Monzo, Starling Bank and Oodle Car Finance.” The investment round “includes existing… Read More

November 6, 2022 @ 10:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), which claims to be the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, recently announced a partnership with Teamwork Commerce, a mobile POS and OMS omnichannel retail solution, in the U.S. and Europe. Integrating Adyen’s technology and Teamwork’s cloud-based mobile POS… Read More

November 5, 2022 @ 4:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Arqit Quantum Inc. (Nasdaq: ARQQ), a key player in quantum-safe encryption, has signed a contract with Nine23 Ltd, a cybersecurity solutions provider for UK regulated and compliant sectors, “to deploy Arqit’s QuantumCloud™, a symmetric key agreement software, on Nine23’s UK Sovereign Secure Private Cloud infrastructure… Read More

November 4, 2022 @ 10:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sustainability and climate protection are “central challenges” of our time. Therefore, the EU is successively “obliging companies, credit institutions and other financial service providers to make the sustainability of their economic activities measurable within the framework of the EU Taxonomy Regulation.” The aim is “to… Read More

November 4, 2022 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

N26, The Mobile Bank, announced the appointment of its new group Supervisory Board “as it continues to evolve its governance structures in preparation for the next stages of development.” The latest appointments “will see Marcus W. Mosen, Jörg Gerbig, Dr. Barbara Roth, Dr. Julian Deutz… Read More

November 1, 2022 @ 7:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gillian Lynch, Head of Ireland and EU operations at Gemini, notes that the digital asset firm is pleased “to announce that individuals and institutions in Denmark, Sweden, Portugal, Czechia, Latvia, and Liechtenstein can now open a Gemini account to deposit, trade, and custody over 100 cryptocurrencies.”… Read More

October 31, 2022 @ 10:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Molo Finance has partnered with Brilliant Solutions, a distributor of mortgages that sits between mortgage brokers and lenders. This partnership “further underlines Molo’s ambitions to offer fully-digital mortgages on a larger scale and it will provide Brilliant Solutions’ membership of directly authorized (DA) brokers with… Read More

October 31, 2022 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Banking Circle S.A. is set to help US payments providers expand out of the domestic market with low-cost and fast cross-border payments across 25 currencies. Underlining the momentum it has gained as an alternative to correspondent banking for cross-border payments, Banking Circle S.A. is “forecasting… Read More

October 31, 2022 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Adyen (AMS: ADYEN)  has broadened its offering by taking live two new embedded financial products – Capital and Accounts – which are now “available to platform and marketplace businesses in the US and Europe via Adyen’s single integration.” Adyen, the global financial technology platform of… Read More

October 31, 2022 @ 7:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Payer, the B2B technology company specializing in digital conversion, payments, and finance automation, with a mission to digitalize the B2B industry wherever payments play a central role, has announced that it will now facilitate American Express payments “across the Nordics in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and… Read More