Tagged: fintech

October 10, 2017 @ 4:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

San Francisco-based fintech Ripple announced on Tuesday more than 100 financial institutions have joined its blockchain network, RippleNet. This news comes less than a month after the company opened its new Singapore office. Speaking about the blockchain network’s milestone, Ripple’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse, stated: “Global payments are undeniably going… Read More

October 10, 2017 @ 3:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec announced on Tuesday it has formed a partnership with the Desjardins Group to launch a new fintech investment fund. The creation of this fund was announced during the Canada FinTech Forum According to the Canadian companies, the funds… Read More

October 10, 2017 @ 12:36 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Deutsche Bank announced it has started implementation for its Artificial Intelligence- Client Communication Center (AI-C³), which will be based on IBM Watson in the German language. While sharing details about AI-C³, the bank revealed: “Deutsche Bank has completed successfully internal Proof-of-Concepts with the IBM partner… Read More

October 10, 2017 @ 11:02 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Payment Rails, a Canada-based API-first payouts platform for businesses, announced on Tuesday it has appointed former President of PayPal, Scott Thompson, as an investor and board advisor. This news comes just after the company completed its seed round and brought total investment funding to $1.1… Read More

October 10, 2017 @ 9:01 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, education platform CFTE announced it is launching a new online fintech foundation course called Around Fintech in 8 House. According to the platform, the course has been notably designed to give professionals that are working in the finance industry a solid understanding of… Read More

October 9, 2017 @ 1:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Citi Ventures announced on Monday it welcomed 60 university students from Hong Kong to its San Francisco office in September as part of its week-long fintech-focused entrepreneurship bootcamp at Stanford Graduate School of Business under the Cyberport University Partnership Program (CUPP). The students reportedly visited Citi… Read More

October 7, 2017 @ 10:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just two weeks after making the decision to extend its equity crowdfunding round on Invesdor, Stockholm-based fintech startup Sharpfin is set to complete the funding initiative with more than 2.3 million SEK from nearly 60 investors. Sharpfin previously revealed that it sees a finance industry… Read More

October 6, 2017 @ 12:01 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), a software specialist for banking and finance, announces a strategic partnership with MuleSoft, a provider of the platform for building application networks. According to Temenos, by creating a channel for banks to capitalize on the modern technology in Temenos’ Core Banking platform, MuleSoft enables banks to… Read More

October 5, 2017 @ 10:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based fintech firm Finastra announced on Thursday it has teamed up with R3 and seven banks to create an online marketplace to drive transparency and efficiency in the syndicated loan market. Finastra reported that R3’s distributed ledger technology (DLT) based platform, Fusion LenderComm exposes real-time credit agreement, accrual… Read More

October 4, 2017 @ 2:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

London fintech startup Curve has formed a partnership with accounting software, Xero. This news comes just a few months after Curve secured $10 million during its Series A funding round. According to TechCrunch, the companies are looking to remove much of the friction involved in… Read More

October 4, 2017 @ 12:32 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Canadian fintech firm MOBI724 Global Solutions Inc. announced this week it has entered into an agreement with Visa, a global payments technology company, to provide Visa clients a suite of integrated Loyalty Solutions, including MOBI724’s Card-Linked Offers & Rewards, Digital Marketing and Business Intelligence Solutions… Read More

October 2, 2017 @ 11:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Startup consulting firm Quesnay announced on Monday the launch of its inaugural Female Founders in Tech competition, which aims to address the gap in female leaders by recognizing and supporting female-founded startups that impact the financial services and/or insurance technology industries. Jennifer Byrne, president of Quesnay,… Read More

October 2, 2017 @ 11:07 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Tinubu Square, a France-based provider of trade credit risk management solutions, announced on Monday it has secured a €53million investment from Long Arc Capital and Bpifrance to accelerate the development of its technology solutions for credit and surety insurers, trade finance banks and export credit agencies. With this investment, U.S.-based investment firm Long Arc Capital takes a majority stake… Read More

September 30, 2017 @ 10:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, BBVA named DOV-E the winner of its Open Talent FinTech for Companies Challenge. As previously reported, the company revealed that it launched the “fintech games” in order to find the most innovative startups across the world to provide opportunities for. Based in Israel, DOV-E provides… Read More

September 29, 2017 @ 3:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, UK-based fintech startup and read-only, anonymised Twitter client that blocks all broadcasting (Tweeting) and messaging, Market EarlyBird, announced it has formed a partnership with cloud-based workflow and collaboration platform, Symphony, for its new program EarlyBird for Symphony. According to Market EarlyBird, EarlyBird for Symphony… Read More

September 28, 2017 @ 9:56 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Canada fintech firm and direct online access to securely vaulted and insured precious metals, Goldmoney, Inc. (TSX: XAU), announced on Thursday the addition of vaulted Bitcoin and Ethereum as secure and fully-reserved offline investable assets within the Goldmoney Holding. This will allow qualified clients to buy, sell, and exchange cryptocurrencies… Read More

September 27, 2017 @ 9:58 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, Lend360 announced a panel of experts will discuss what’s “Coming Down the Pipeline: Innovative Products and Contributing Factors Affecting the Future of Small Business Finance” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, October 11th during a session at the Lend360 conference in Dallas. According to Lend360, the session, which… Read More

September 26, 2017 @ 2:33 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

San Francisco-based fintech Ripple has announced the opening of its new Singapore office. This news comes just one month after the company opened its India office. While sharing details about the new office, Dilip Rao, managing director for Ripple APAC, reportedly stated: “Singapore is leading the… Read More

September 25, 2017 @ 3:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Stockholm-based fintech Sharpfin is set to close its equity crowdfunding round on Invesdor with more than 1.9 million SEK. As previously reported, Sharpfin sees a finance industry that is riddled with high maintenance legacy IT systems that incredibly out of date. Sharpfin also wants to be the… Read More

September 22, 2017 @ 10:22 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fintech Australia announced its upcoming Intersekt Fintech Festival is set to be a world-first gender equality target and is part of an ongoing campaign to drive increased levels of email participation in the country’s startup sector. The festival is set to be held in Melbourne from… Read More