Tagged: milestone

October 31, 2023 @ 3:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NEXT Insurance, a digital small business insurer, achieved a marked milestone in reaching 500,000 active small business customers. Throughout NEXT’s journey as a digital insurer, its commitment to the small business community has “remained paramount, driving all aspects of its continued product innovations, partnerships, and… Read More

October 31, 2023 @ 1:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE:NU) has surpassed 90 million customers in Latin America in its operations in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, consolidating its position as one of the fastest-growing financial services companies in the world. David Vélez, Nubank’s founder and CEO, at an event for the press and… Read More

October 30, 2023 @ 8:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Juniper Square, the partnership enablement for the private funds industry, has announced major accomplishments, “surpassing a trillion dollars in investor equity on platform and trillions of dollars in real assets.” The company is celebrating key milestones “after securing $133M in funding earlier this year which… Read More

October 30, 2023 @ 10:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut, the financial super app with over 35 million customers globally, has been officially certified as a Great Place to Work. Following participation in a certified study, “based on the strength of its employee experience, Revolut has been recognised as a Great Place to Work… Read More

October 18, 2023 @ 9:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) is reporting that Germany will become a Regional Talent Hub, “marking another key milestone in our international expansion strategy.” In 2021, Coinbase claimed that it had become the first crypto company “to receive a crypto license from BaFin.” This license, for crypto custody… Read More

October 16, 2023 @ 9:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum, the digital asset bank, has generated additional CHF multi-billion client demand by complementing its core regulated digital asset offering with traditional securities. As noted in an update from Sygnum: Market traction due to clients’ ability to combine crypto and traditional assets conveniently, simply and… Read More

October 16, 2023 @ 4:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Reserve Protocol is now live on Base, marking its first expansion beyond the Ethereum mainnet. This update matters because it aims to empower accessible innovation. As noted in a blog post by the Reserve Protocol team, the “low-cost,” and developer-friendly Ethereum L2 environment launched by… Read More

October 14, 2023 @ 9:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

While the summer may traditionally be a quieter time of the year for many businesses, CrowdProperty says that it bucked the trend by funding £100 million in property development projects within the last quarter. The CrowdProperty team of experts claims that they “continued to be… Read More

October 11, 2023 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

One million VRP transactions have been made by UK consumers in just a month and have been powered by TrueLayer. Moving money, simplifying savings, automating credit repayments — whatever it is, variable recurring payments are growing, according to an update from TrueLayer. The company also… Read More

October 9, 2023 @ 10:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The crypto ecosystem faced significant challenges this year, the team at Gemini noted in a recent update. Despite the various headwinds, talented individuals across all our teams “have continued to build every day during the bear market,” Gemini claims. As they mark Gemini’s 8th anniversary,… Read More

October 1, 2023 @ 9:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, recently marked its tenth anniversary serving Irish businesses, “with the release of data revealing widespread, rapid growth in the country’s internet economy.” Over the last decade, conditions for Ireland’s internet businesses “have improved dramatically.” Homegrown startups now “have… Read More

September 29, 2023 @ 8:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Capital on Tap, the Fintech company which says it is focused on democratizing small business funding, opened the London Stock Exchange market recently in order to mark the launch of its £250 million securitization facility. The securitization, called London Cards No.1, is reportedy among the… Read More

September 27, 2023 @ 2:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Neo, the cross-border payments fintech, has announced it has cleared more than €10 billion through its corporate multi-currency accounts since launch in 2020. The firm which provides a one-stop-shop account for corporate treasurers has seen its cleared volume double “in just under a year, reaching… Read More

September 22, 2023 @ 12:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainlink, the industry-standard Web3 services platform, and Arbitrum, the most widely used layer 2 scaling solution suite for Ethereum dApp development, have announced today the mainnet launch of the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) on Arbitrum One. CCIP provides Web3 developers “with a secure, easy-to-use… Read More

September 20, 2023 @ 11:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tide, the business financial platform, has reached a significant growth milestone. The business now claims a 10% market share of all UK small businesses “with more than 550,000 customers (members).” Tide serves small businesses which “don’t have their own finance function, such as sole traders,… Read More

September 12, 2023 @ 11:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Enterprise-grade staking platform Kiln announced that Coinbase Cloud has integrated Kiln’s On-Chain Platform into its product offering, “marking a significant milestone for Coinbase Cloud in streamlining and simplifying the Ethereum staking process.” Kiln On-Chain is a suite of smart contracts designed “to connect integrators and… Read More

September 8, 2023 @ 4:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The RTP Network, the instant payments system operated by The Clearing House that is available to all insured depository financial institutions in the United States, surpassed the one million daily payment milestone “on September 1 as more financial institutions and their customers realize the benefits… Read More

September 6, 2023 @ 4:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Debitum is pleased to announce that Debitum-affiliated Loan originator Sandbox Funding has issued its 1st million euros in loans. Loans have been issued “to Latvian companies from forestry and agriculture, energy, and eco-house construction industries.” Henrijs Jansons, Debitum CEO, said: “We started to test Sandbox… Read More

September 6, 2023 @ 9:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In August, PeerBerry reportedly crossed two key milestones. PeerBerry investors funded “a record amount of EUR 75.36 million in loans, exceeding a pre-war level”. It is the largest amount funded “in one month on the platform in PeerBerry’s six-year history.” At the end of August,… Read More

August 31, 2023 @ 9:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

P2P platforms used to take about 5 years to reach key metrics, whereas in current conditions, new companies need just 3 years to do so, according to a recent update shared by Robo.cash. Robocash platform analysts have reportedly looked into three parameters “as the main… Read More