Tagged: ireland

May 2, 2020 @ 2:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier today the Irish government outlined additional plans to help support the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic. During a special Cabinet meeting, a series of measures to further support small, medium, and larger businesses were revealed. The new initiatives included: a €10,000 restart grant for… Read More

April 21, 2020 @ 9:14 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ireland-based fintech Fenergo announced on Tuesday it has joined forces with IBM (NYSE: IBM)  to fight financial crime. The duo signed an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement that will allow the companies to collaborate on solutions that can help clients address the multitude of financial risks they… Read More

April 1, 2020 @ 2:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

Grupeer is the latest European peer to peer lender to shut down operations. Grupeer operates out of Latvia but also claims an office in Ireland. In a message posted on the site this week, Grupeer management claimed that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic made… Read More

March 26, 2020 @ 10:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Linked Finance, an Ireland-based peer to peer lender, has announced a new product for businesses impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. The online lender is now offering a “Deferred Start Loan” that includes no payments for the first three months of the security. The 15-month loan… Read More

March 22, 2020 @ 1:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Banks in the Netherlands are helping customers perform contactless payments at store locations without requiring them to enter their PIN numbers. This move is part of the extraordinary measures that have been taken to prevent the further spread of the deadly and highly contagious Coronavirus… Read More

March 19, 2020 @ 11:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Linked Finance a leading peer to peer lender in Ireland, has announced a range of actions to assist borrowers impacted by the Coronavirus, or COVID-19, pandemic. Linked Finance said that an automatic 2-month payment brake will be applied to all loans to the hospitality trade…. Read More

March 4, 2020 @ 2:34 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Truevo, a full-service card acquirer and payment service provider, announced on Wednesday it has launched its point of sale solution in the UK, Ireland, and Malta. Founded in 2012, Truevo provides merchant account and card acquiring services to businesses of all sizes, from micro-merchants to… Read More

March 3, 2020 @ 12:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based banking challenger Starling Bank intends to use its Irish banking license to make its way into other European nations in the coming years, Anne Boden, the company’s CEO, confirmed. During a recent interview with IBS Intelligence, Boden, founder of Starling Bank, noted that the… Read More

March 2, 2020 @ 7:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ireland-based DX, a Regtech firm focused on developing compliance software, aims to introduce flexible anti-money laundering (AML) checks and processes for Fintech companies. Simon Dix, a lawyer who previously worked at Germany-based digital bank Fidor Bank, has extensive experience dealing with AML compliance matters in… Read More

February 25, 2020 @ 11:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Berlin-headquartered Raisin, a cross-border savings and investment marketplace, has confirmed the strategic placement of more than €20 billion with banks based in 25 different countries. Raisin’s management noted that it’s currently managing an investment volume of more than €500 million.  Raisin also announced that it… Read More

February 24, 2020 @ 1:08 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Glantus a global provider of financial automation and data intelligence solutions, announced on Monday it has acquired JPD Financial, a Vendor Credit Recovery services provider. According to Glantus, the acquisition will bring new levels of automation and AI to credit recovery and financial processing offered… Read More

February 23, 2020 @ 7:31 am By JD Alois  |  

An Irish drug dealer arrested with €2000 worth of Cannabis in his car has apparently lost £46 million in Bitcoin after being sentenced to 5 years in the slammer. Pretty bloody stupid if the story is accurate. According to the Guardian, the perp in question,… Read More

February 12, 2020 @ 3:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ireland-based fintech company Fenergo announced on Wednesday it secured $80 through its latest investment round, which was led by ABN AMRO Ventures and DXC Technology. Founded in 2009, Fenergo describes itself as a digital enabler of client and regulatory technology for financial services. The company… Read More

February 12, 2020 @ 9:41 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digital payments company Payoneer announced on Wednesday it not only opened a new office Dublin, it has also been authorized as an Electronic Money (e-money) institution by the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI). Payoneer claims its the twelfth company to be granted the license. Founded… Read More

February 4, 2020 @ 10:36 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Dublin City University announced on Tuesday it is teaming up with online learning platform FutureLearn to launch a new online accredit short course on fintech. The University revealed that the online course was developed by its business school and it is aimed at professionals who… Read More

February 4, 2020 @ 6:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dublin-headquartered regulatory planning firm Corlytics is reportedly set to book a €10 million capital injection by the end of Q1 2020. This, after the firm has recorded its most successful financial year. The trained artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform for regulation leverages human expertise and combines… Read More

February 1, 2020 @ 4:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase is reportedly expanding its institutional custody business through the establishment of a new office in Ireland, the company confirmed on January 29. Coinbase first introduced Coinbase Custody in 2017, in order to better serve its institutional clients, which include major… Read More

January 27, 2020 @ 3:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Linked Finance, a peer-to-peer lending platform based in Ireland, has launched five-year unsecured business loans for Irish SMEs, according to a company release. Linked Finance will now offer unsecured loans of up to €300,000 to Irish companies “with more complex funding requirements.” The company describes… Read More

November 25, 2019 @ 12:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Offering more mobility and quicker financial services, challenger banks appear to be destined for success, however, the Irish consumers’ trust in new technology seems to be a major challenge to mass adoption. This, according to Fujitsu’s latest “From Demanding to Discerning: Tech and the New… Read More

October 12, 2019 @ 5:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-headquartered crypto exchange Coinbase is expanding its operations in Europe with an e-money license granted by Ireland’s central bank. On October 11, Zeeshan Feroz, CEO of Coinbase’s UK division, revealed that the digital asset trading platform had become “one of just a few companies”… Read More