Tagged: germany

March 15, 2018 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Frankfurt, Germany based Robo-Advisor Ginmon has hired Dmitriy Fot as CTO. Fot previously worked as a cloud architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Germany. Ginmon says the appointment of a high profile expert for a Fintech company is quite rare. Ginmon’s mission is to provide investors… Read More

March 8, 2018 @ 10:17 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

solarisBank, a German digital-only bank, announced on Thursday it has successfully secured  €56.6  million through its Series B funding round. Participants from the round include current investors Arvato Financial Solutions and SBI Group, renowned global companies BBVA, Visa, Lakestar and ABN AMRO’s Digital Impact Fund (DIF) have… Read More

March 1, 2018 @ 9:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Faytech, a supplier of industrial touch screen solutions and a global leader in optical bonding touch panels, has selected Fundernation to help crowdfund its growth capital. Fundernation is the first German investment crowdfunding platform that is founded by a venture capital team. Fundernation’s investment focus is in… Read More

February 21, 2018 @ 9:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Savings marketplace Raisin has launched in the UK. The Berlin based Fintech has been expanding across the European continent but today they have crossed the British Channel to offer their services to UK savers. Raisin provides an interesting service that leverages technology to help savers… Read More

February 20, 2018 @ 6:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Germany’s BaFin (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht), or the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, is the largest financial supervisory authority in continetal Europe. Today, BaFin has published a note on initial coin offerings (ICOs). BaFin joins a growing number of national regulatory agencies that have published some degree of clarifications… Read More

February 17, 2018 @ 7:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Wirecard, a Germany-based global provider of digital payments and commerce solutions, announced this week it has expanded its expanding its collaboration with German bank, ReiseBank. The duo recently rolled out the mobile banking app bankom. According to Wirecard, the companies are providing users with a completely… Read More

February 16, 2018 @ 7:46 am By Therese Torris  |  

After France, Spain and Italy, Lendix is launching operations in Germany and the Netherlands. The company reaffirms its strategy to be first to market with a pan-European strategy, leveraging its marketplace business model through the addition of local teams. “We’re not pivoting. We’re remaining true… Read More

February 15, 2018 @ 1:00 am By JD Alois  |  

BinckBank N.V.  is poised to disrupt the Dutch savings market as the online bank will be the first to offer its clients access to European savings products via a partnership with Raisin. BinckBank serves more than 614,000 account holders with assets of € 22.7 billion as of… Read More

February 11, 2018 @ 3:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

  The Blockchain Bundesverband has published a position paper on initial coin offerings regarding important regulatory considerations.  The focus is largely on the European Union, and specifically Germany, but the discussion has global considerations regarding exchanges and public policy in general. Much of the world… Read More

February 6, 2018 @ 11:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, German marketplace lender for SMEs, creditshelf, announced it is extending the maximum term of its arranged loans from 36 to 60 months. The online lending platform also reported that the maximum loan amount will double from previous €2.5 million to €5 million with… Read More

February 5, 2018 @ 8:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Berlin based Penta, a challenger bank for startups and businesses, has raised €2.2 million in seed funding just one month after launching in Germany. The investment round was led by Inception Capital, a Fintech focused VC based in the UK. Penta is a partner of Berlin… Read More

February 1, 2018 @ 12:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Banco BNI Europa and Funding Circle have entered into a partnership to provide access to capital for small and medium-sized businesses in Germany, according to the bank. Banco BNI Europa is a digital challenger bank based in Portugal. As part of the agreement, Banco BNI… Read More

January 25, 2018 @ 7:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Launched just four years again, Fintech platform Raisin has become an unqualified success. Today, the company is announcing that it has topped €5 billion in savings deposits having doubled the amount of accounts in just one year. Raisin, based in Germany, allows users to surf savings… Read More

January 23, 2018 @ 12:35 am By JD Alois  |  

The IOTA Foundation is one of the more fascinating entries into the cryptocurrency world. A high profile concept that has encountered controversy almost from the beginning, the German based company has made big promises while being pin-balled around by criticism and plaudits alike. IOTA has… Read More

January 22, 2018 @ 2:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

  @DavidSonstebo & @DomSchiener I am looking forward to start serving on the Supervisory Board of the IOTA Foundation. Great work @iotatoken! https://t.co/moKjBkyIMl — Johann Jungwirth (@JohannJungwirth) January 21, 2018 The IOTA Foundation has announced that Johann Jungwirth, Chief Digital Officer of Volkswagen, has joined… Read More

January 22, 2018 @ 8:39 am By JD Alois  |  

BAWAG Group and Berlin based Fintech Spotcap have formed a strategic partnership to give Austrian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) access to same-day financing. The partnership is said to be the first time Spotcap will offer its lending platform and proprietary analytics to a bank and marks… Read More

January 16, 2018 @ 8:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Deutsche Bank has announced a new strategic partnership with Insurtech firm Friendsurance. The arrangement will see the two companies working together to advise clients and help them take out and manage insurance policies. Deutsch Bank’s goal is to make it more simple, transparent and convenient… Read More

January 10, 2018 @ 9:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Hamburg, Germany based Sutor Bank (founded in 1921) has launched a new “micro-investment app” described as delivering an “investment to go’ feature for users. Sutor Bank said it is expanding its range of Fintech collaborations by partnering with startup savemate providing the investment app that… Read More

January 10, 2018 @ 8:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, Transferwise, the UK based Fintech Unicorn, announced it had launched a borderless debit card for a group of trial users. Basically it is a current account that can be used anywhere minus the silly fees banks charge consumers. Transferwise will commence a wide release… Read More

January 4, 2018 @ 12:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

The IOTA Foundation, the decentralized platform with big ambitions, has formed a new partnership with the International Transportation Innovation Center (ITIC) to build a global alliance of smart mobility testbeds. ITIC’s focus is described as building a global network of open and closed testbeds to… Read More