Tagged: fintech

October 17, 2017 @ 10:55 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

AutoGravity, a California-based Fintech on a mission to transform car shopping and financing, announced on Tuesday it has appointed Chuck Schofield as its new Vice President of Dealer Sales. Prior to joining the fintech firm, Schofield served as Western Region Senior Manager for Mercedes-Benz Financial Services where… Read More

October 16, 2017 @ 11:29 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Startupbootcamp FinTech program in Latin America, which is a joint venture between Startupbootcamp and Finnovista, announced on Monday it celebrated the end of its first batch during Demo Day. According to the program, each of the startups has collectively secured 30 pilot projects and collaborations… Read More

October 13, 2017 @ 10:43 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based fintech startup Zazu has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs to raise £150,000 as it prepares to launch its new digital-only bank in Africa. Founded in 2015, Zazu states it was born from Ignite Accelerator as an e-commerce platform for farmers and is now… Read More

October 12, 2017 @ 10:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Japan-based fintech firm QUOINE announced on Thursday it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with ULS Group to create the QASH Blockchain. According to QUOINE, the QASH token is based on the Ethereum blockchain for the ICO, but the company will do a token swap to utility tokens based on the… Read More

October 11, 2017 @ 8:48 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Canadian fintech Dream Payments announced on Tuesday Staples has joined its recently launched Dealership Program. The company revealed that under the partnership, its mobile point-of-sale (POS) debit/credit card terminal will now be able for purchase on Staples’ website. While sharing details about the new partnership,… Read More

October 11, 2017 @ 8:25 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Chicago-based fintech firm and socially responsible online lender OppLoans announced on Tuesday the opening of its new Windy City headquarters. The company revealed that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel made an appearance and even cut the ribbon to the office. During his presentation, Mayor Emanuel stated:… Read More

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