Tagged: germany

October 7, 2020 @ 4:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NAGA Group (XETRA: N4G), a Germany-based social trading-focused brokerage firm, reported its financial results on October 5, 2020, for Q3 2020. The NAGA Group claims that it generated record sales and trading volume. The company’s sales volume reportedly increased by 506% year-on-year to €7.1 million… Read More

October 7, 2020 @ 7:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Raisin, a European Fintech that leverages open banking to offer a deposit marketplace, says growth in the UK has topped expectations in spite of the ongoing COVID-19 health challenge. Raisin claims it is going “against trend” and has passed its 2020 annual growth target of… Read More

October 6, 2020 @ 3:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Finoa, a Germany-based fintech, announced on Tuesday it is teaming up with Oasis Network to provide custody for the network’s ROSE toke at mainnet launch. According to Finoa, ROSE is designed to give users financial sovereignty and control of their data and is expected to… Read More

September 30, 2020 @ 9:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Electronics giant Samsung has teamed up with Visa and Solarisbank, a German banking platform, in order to allow residents in Germany to link their accounts to contactless mobile payments services. Customers who sign up for Samsung Pay will get a virtual Visa debit card that… Read More

September 30, 2020 @ 8:21 am By JD Alois  |  

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has told bankrupt Fintech Wirecard (WDI.DE) to halt payment services in Singapore and to return all customer funds by October 14, 2020. MAS states that it has been monitoring Wirecard’s bankruptcy proceedings and the ability of the company to provide… Read More

September 29, 2020 @ 11:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Deposit Solutions, a Germany based Fintech unicorn, has announced its launch in the US market. According to a release, its consumer savings portal SaveBetter connects American banks digitally with savers, targeting the $16 trillion U.S. deposit market. Prominent US entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel is… Read More

September 28, 2020 @ 11:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Younited Credit Germany, an expansion by France based Younited Credit, reports having originated over €10 million in loans since launch in February of 2020. Younited Credit is a European online credit platform, certified by the French authority in charge of financial stability and customer protection (ACPR)…. Read More

September 23, 2020 @ 8:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Procheck24, Germany’s largest financial product broker, is collaborating with Raisin to offer a “novel” deposits solution for financial institutions. According to a note from Raisin, its services will now be made available via Procheck24’s 60,000 business partners including client banks. Raisin is an open banking… Read More

September 16, 2020 @ 7:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Germany has one of the world’s most active Fintech sectors. It has become increasingly competitive with many new ventures being launched. There are more than 800 Fintech firms in Germany and $2.2 billion has been invested into the sector between January 2019 and August 2020,… Read More

September 15, 2020 @ 11:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

CRX Markets has joined the Association of German Lending Platforms (VdK) a first for a Fintech in the working capital sector. VdK is a new association for the online lending industry with many new members since the beginning of the year. CRX Markets is now joining… Read More

September 14, 2020 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands recently asked the European Commission (EC) to draft strict regulatory policies for stablecoins, which are digital assets that are supposed to be backed or pegged 1-to-1 with major fiat currencies like the US dollar or the British pound… Read More

September 10, 2020 @ 10:55 am By JD Alois  |  

creditshelf Aktiengesellschaft, a marketplace lender serving German SMEs, reports that growth remains robust for its platform even during the ongoing COVID-19 challenge. According to creditshelf, a solid Q2 led to significant revenue growth of 41.6% during the first six months of 2020 when compared to… Read More

September 8, 2020 @ 10:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mollie, a European payment processing company, has secured €90 million in capital through a Series B investment round which was led by TCV, a prominent investor that has also participated in rounds conducted by Spotify, Revolut, Netflix, and Nubank, one of the largest digital banks… Read More

September 8, 2020 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

ETC Group reports that it has signed a series of “Authorised Participants” to support the liquidity of BTCetc Bitcoin Exchange Traded Crypto (BTCE). Launched in June 2020, BTCE became the first Bitcoin-based exchange-traded product to list on XETRA in Germany. BTCE is 100% physically backed… Read More

September 2, 2020 @ 8:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Delivery Hero, a Berlin-based online delivery platform operating in the Middle East, has teamed up with Mastercard in order to digitize its entire payment process across all its products offered to MENA region customers. Delivery Hero app users will have the option to pay for… Read More

September 2, 2020 @ 8:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Largest Fintech Funding Round in Eurozone for 2020 auxmoney, a Germany based marketplace lender, has raised € 150 million led by Centerbridge. In a note from the Fintech, auxmoney stated that existing VCs, including Foundation Capital, Index Ventures, and Union Square Ventures remain fully invested…. Read More

September 1, 2020 @ 12:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cosmose AI, a China-based offline shopping platform, announced on Tuesday it secured €12.5 million through its Series A funding round, which was led by Tiga Investments with participation from OTB Ventures and TDJ Pitango. Founded in 2014, Cosmose AI claims it “harnesses anonymous mobile user… Read More

August 31, 2020 @ 8:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital challengers such as neobanks and various other Fintech service providers are beginning to transform many traditional business activities through the digitalization of many different services that previously required laborious manual processes (like accounting). Customer or user experience (UX) has become a key differentiator when… Read More

August 29, 2020 @ 2:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based SatoshiPay, a Fintech firm that aims to provide fast and affordable payment solutions, has revealed that it has reached a key milestone in establishing its blockchain-enabled clearing platform as a “new standard” for cross-border transactions. The SatoshiPay team notes that, as of August 2020,… Read More

August 27, 2020 @ 10:53 am By JD Alois  |  

The district court of Munich has opened the insolvency proceedings regarding the assets of Wirecard (WDI:DE), which were applied for on June 25, 2020, according to a note from the company. The current preliminary insolvency administrator Dr. jur. Michael Jaffé from the law firm JAFFÉ Rechtsanwälte… Read More