July 10, 2018 @ 12:50 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The general unwillingness of banks to provide services to cryptocurrency firms is a well-known dirty secret in the Toronto start up scene. Any use of the word ‘bit’ in a business plan will have you politely shown the door by an account manager, even at… Read More

June 15, 2018 @ 9:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Alior Bank has announced a “pan-European collaboration” with Raisin, solarisBank and Mastercard. The four separate companies are seeking to create a new financial platform based on an open API model. This new model hopes to enable their clients “to benefit from truly open banking.” According… Read More

June 1, 2018 @ 8:59 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Regtech firm Clarus.io announced on Thursday that it has signed a partnership with Berlin-based banking platfrom SolarisBank. The Israeli firm revealed that the partnership will enable SolarisBank to streamline its compliance processes and scale its local as well as international activity using the Clarus.io transaction monitoring… Read More

March 26, 2018 @ 8:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Penta, a Berlin-based Fintech, has announced a new feature to digitize company formation in Germany. Penta has launched “Compass” a platform that enables businesses to incorporate, create a share structure and open a bank account in less than 24 hours unlike the weeks long process… 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

December 5, 2017 @ 7:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Moneyou, is the digital brand of the Dutch mega bank ABN AMRO.  Berlin-based solarisBank, a digital only banking platform that has a full banking license, has just inked an agreement to integrate with Moneyou to provide instantaneous online lending for consumers. Moneyou’s German customers may… Read More

June 14, 2016 @ 2:04 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

FinLeap, the startup platform behind Germany’s SolarisBank, has secured €21 million in equity capital to support its fintech incubation program. Next to the founding shareholder Berlin-based HitFox-Group, new institutional investors from the insurance industry took a stake in the company including Hannover Re, the third largest worldwide reinsurer,… Read More