Tagged: europe

September 14, 2022 @ 9:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Copenhagen has a strong fintech ecosystem and a “leading” position among fintech hubs globally, according to an update from Mastercard (NYSE: MA). The hub connects both start-ups, established companies and organizations “focusing on innovation and new opportunities.” Mastercard is “committed to empowering the growing fintech… Read More

September 14, 2022 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Equiduct, the pan-European retail exchange, announced that it has launched the trading of US equities in Apex, the on-exchange Best Execution service “with zero trading fees for retail brokers.” Over five million retail investors with access to Apex will now be able “to invest in… Read More

September 14, 2022 @ 12:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Temenos (SIX: TEMN) recently announced the collaboration between Temenos Multifonds and PATRONAS Financial Systems, a provider of advanced software for the European investment industry. The collaboration “offers asset managers an integrated ‘best of breed’ front to back-office solution by utilizing PATRONAS’ … front and middle-office… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 11:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In response to the growing drive for higher corporate governance standards – both globally and at a national market level – Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR)  announced it has “commenced live operations of its new ‘golden copy’ event notification and direct vote execution service for… Read More

September 12, 2022 @ 10:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ForwardAI, a Fintech providing aggregated access to accounting & business data and analysis, announced today its partnership with Swoop Funding, the one-stop money shop “for businesses in Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the UK.” Through the partnership, Swoop Funding will be “augmenting its current data collection… Read More

September 11, 2022 @ 10:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ETC Group, which claims to be one of Europe’s leading specialist providers of institutional-grade digital asset-backed securities, has announced that it will “list a new exchange traded product on XETRA based on the imminent hard fork of Ethereum and ETHW (the native asset to the… Read More

September 11, 2022 @ 6:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Allica Bank – the bank built specifically to serve the needs of “established” SMEs – is aiming to make £500 million in committed loan offers “between September and the end of the year, as it continues to ramp up its support for UK SMEs facing… Read More

September 11, 2022 @ 5:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tech Nation recently welcomed what they claim to be the UK’s 51 “most exciting” Fintech companies to their fifth Fintech growth program, as UK fintech investment “reaches a record high.” As mentioned in the announcement, 51 companies were accepted into Tech Nation’s fifth Fintech growth… Read More

September 10, 2022 @ 9:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Yapily is looking forward to teaming up with fintech unicorn Pleo, which offers a smart business spending solution, “to enable a simplified payments experience for its UK users.” Research shows that 82% of businesses that fail “do so as a result of… Read More

September 10, 2022 @ 8:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Easy Payment & Finance, which claims to be a leading financial payment and technology enabler in Spain, announced it has chosen digital payments platform, Carta Worldwide, a subsidiary of Mogo Inc. (NASDAQ:MOGO), to support its new card offering. Easy EP is reportedly among Spain’s major… Read More

September 10, 2022 @ 4:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut, the global financial super app with over 20 million retail customers, has launched Revolut Pay – a new secure online checkout feature which “allows UK and EEA merchants to present ‘Revolut Pay’ as a payment method across product, cart, and checkout pages.” Revolut Pay… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 7:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Neo has announced a new partnership with Simplex by Nuvei, an EU-licensed financial institution that “empowers its vast network of partners to accept the widest range of payment methods.” This partnership will “provide users around the world with seamless onramps and offramps to NEO, GAS,… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 10:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OneSpan (NASDAQ: OSPN), the digital agreements security company, announced a significant expansion of its OneSpan Cloud Authentication service with BankID. BankID first launched with OneSpan in September 2021 and has already “reached a multi-million user milestone that is expected to continue growing as BankID’s technology… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FNZ, the global wealth management platform, announced that it has agreed to acquire DIAMOS AG, the specialized Wealthtech provider for the asset and wealth management industry, “to further enhance its global wealth management platform.” The acquisition will “strengthen FNZ’s global client proposition adding advanced product… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 7:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle, which claims to be the United Kingdom’s largest small business loan platform, has announced its results for the six months “ended 30 June 2022.” As noted in an update shared with CI, Funding Circle delivered “a financial performance ahead of expectations, finishing the… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 11:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IDF Eurasia, a lending company specializing in consumer loans, has reportedly introduced a new cashback campaign. For a limited time, users are able to “earn a cashback of up to 2% for investments in IDF Eurasia Notes.” For IDF Eurasia’s entity MFO FintechFinance LLP, you… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 10:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Investment platform PeerBerry reported that it will be listing CashXpress loans from the Philippines again. CashXpress will reportedly “offer double guaranteed 180 days term loans with a 12% ROI.” PeerBerry pointed out that you may review “the term and the loan type of CashXpress loans,… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 7:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kudo Insurance, which claims to be a “revolutionary” motor insurer founded by Peter Graham, insurance veteran and former CEO of esure, has raised 71% (£462,020) of its  £650,000 target from 130 investors (at the time of writing) with 27 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding campaign,… Read More

September 7, 2022 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

One of Debitum platform business partners, invoice factoring company FLEXIDEA, which operates in Latvia and Poland, has revealed that this summer, private equity fund HELENOS, managed by INPULSE INVESTMENT MANAGER (Brussels-based investment manager, Belgium), “acquired a 14,67% share in the capital of FLEXIDEA.” The acquisition… Read More

September 7, 2022 @ 7:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Economic uncertainty, which peaked in the first half of 2022, “challenged investors to reconsider finance instruments in terms of risk-reward ratio,” according to an update from Robo.cash. The analysts at Robo.cash recently commented on “popular” assets and how they have been performing since the beginning… Read More