Tagged: germany

August 23, 2022 @ 9:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Deutsche Payment has announced a partnership with Token – an Open Banking provider. According to a company statement, an upcoming launch of “PayThisWay“, an account-to-account payments service, will be powered by Token’s Open Banking platform. Token’s white-label-ready platform is designed to enable payment providers like… Read More

August 21, 2022 @ 10:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

EstateGuru notes that summer is in full swing, which is also evident in their loan volumes. During July 2022, their investors financed €11.8M worth of loans “with Estonia contributing the most with €4.0M, followed by Latvia (€2.3M) and Lithuania (€2.2M).” EstateGuru further noted that they… Read More

August 12, 2022 @ 10:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fraugster, a payment intelligence company, has been selected by epay “to pilot AI payment fraud prevention services.” epay is “a full-service payment provider” and the digital payments processing business segment of the financial technology solutions and payments provider Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: EEFT). epay’s worldwide… Read More

August 7, 2022 @ 11:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IDnow, a European identity proofing and digital identity provider, has arranged a new debt facility from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock that “provides up to €60 million in financing.” The debt facility will “enable IDnow to leverage its existing market-leading identity platform.” The company… Read More

August 1, 2022 @ 9:27 am By JD Alois  |  

GenoCrowd is reporting that it has taken just three days to raise its funding threshold for a real estate project. The “Das Rosenthaler”  property located in Nuremberg and managed by W&L AG, will return 5.5% interest to investors with early backers adding 50 basis points… Read More

July 31, 2022 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ageras Group—whose suite of financial and accounting software powers more than one million small businesses across Europe and North America—announced that it has acquired Kontist, a Berlin-based neo-bank “focused on the complex accounting and banking needs of Germany’s growing populations of microbusinesses and self-employed workers.”… Read More

July 27, 2022 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna Kosma, which is Klarna‘s financial technology platform for banking institutions, Fintech firms and retailers, announced its working relationship with Airbank, a digital financial management platform for companies. Klarna Kosma’s Open Banking platform offers Airbank with access to the largest international network of banks, considerably… Read More

July 22, 2022 @ 10:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Qonto, which claims to be the leading European business finance solution, announced its intent “to acquire German fintech Penta.” The deal, which is expected to close in the next few weeks, “comes amid continuous growth for both companies.” This acquisition “represents the logical next step… Read More

July 20, 2022 @ 7:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Despite the ongoing holiday season, EstateGuru investors reportedly financed €14.1 million worth of loans during the month of June 2022. All of the primary markets they operate in performed “exceptionally,” led by Estonia (€3.5M), Germany (€3.0M) and Lithuania (€2.7M). EstateGuru further revealed that they witnessed… Read More

July 17, 2022 @ 10:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinShares (Nasdaq First North Growth Market: CS; US OTCQX: CNSRF), which claims to be Europe’s largest digital asset investment firm with $1.5 billion in AUM, has announced the listing of their physically-backed staked Algorand ETP on Germany’s primary market Xetra. CoinShares Physical Staked Algorand (Ticker:… Read More

July 17, 2022 @ 9:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SAP Fioneer, which claims to be a leading global provider of financial services software solutions and platforms, recently announced the launch of a new vertical product strategy that significantly “reshapes its offering to customers.” Adopting a vertical approach, three platforms will “provide IT solutions tailored… Read More

July 16, 2022 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Berlin-headquartered Insurtech firm ELEMENT has secured €21.4 million via a Series B round. The total funding secured by the firm now amounts to 88 million euros. ELEMENT is also reporting its “best” YTD results. The investment round has been led by the Versorgungswerk Zahnärztekammer… Read More

July 16, 2022 @ 3:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Investing money and paying with the investment at any time, “free of charge?” It is now possible, according to an update shared with CI. Berlin-based startup, UnitPlus, has launched (what it claims to be) the world’s first ETF investment product “with a seamlessly integrated payment… Read More

July 14, 2022 @ 12:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

RIDE Capital has raised €3 million tobe come a digital privat3e bank. The funding was led by Lea-Sophie Cramer, Verena Pausder, and angel investor and professional football player Mario Götze.  RIDE reports that it has raised a total of €8 million since its foundation. RIDE… Read More

July 13, 2022 @ 9:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Finnish Card-as-a-Service Fintech Enfuce is reportedly set to launch operations in the United Kingdom after finalizing a €45 million round back in December 2021. Established by co-CEOs Monika Liikamaa and Denise Johansson, Enfuce recently expanded its international presence in Germany and France and currently claims… Read More

July 12, 2022 @ 11:35 am By JD Alois  |  

wefox, a Germany-based Insurtech, has raised $400 million in a Series D funding round that gave the firm a $4.5 billion “post money” valuation, according to a statement by the company. The funding was in both debt and equity. The company did not share the… Read More

July 7, 2022 @ 2:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

Invesdor, a securities crowdfunding platform serving Europe, is raising growth capital for itself. Invesdor is actually the combination of multiple platforms: Invesdor, plus Finnest (Austria) and Kapilendo (Germany). The trio combined under a single banner selecting Invesdor as its brand. According to an email, on… Read More

July 6, 2022 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Last year, October had carried out a survey among their community of lenders in order to gain insights into the topics they were “eager to learn more about.” One topic came back repeatedly: their platform statistics. To answer your questions related to stats, October is… Read More

June 29, 2022 @ 6:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier today, Germany’s Federal Minister of Finance, Christian Lindner, and the Federal Minister of Justice, Dr.Marco Buschmann, announced regulatory and policy changes designed to boost entrepreneurship, access to capital, and embrace the digitization of finance with digital securities – or security tokens. The Financing Act. Das… Read More

June 26, 2022 @ 11:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Surecomp recently announced that two financial institutions have subscribed to its newly launched RIVO platform “for collaborative trade finance.” DZ Bank is the first bank “to sign-up, alongside the leading provider of guarantee insurance in the Nordics.” Frankfurt-based DZ BANK – which also acts as… Read More