Tagged: spain

November 13, 2019 @ 11:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Banco Sabadell, a bank based in Barcelona, has reached a partnership agreement with Nemuru – a Fintech that seeks to make it easier for professionals in the renovations sector to offer their customers instant loans at the point of sale. Banco Sabadell reports that the… Read More

November 12, 2019 @ 7:28 am By JD Alois  |  

ID Finance, based in Barcelona, has closed its crowdfunding round raising £4.95 million. The equity offering was listed on Crowdcube Spain and topped the previous record for equity crowdfunding in the country. ID Finance is an online lender, data and credit scoring company operating in… Read More

November 8, 2019 @ 4:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bnext, a Spain-based mobile-first neobank, has successfully secured more than £2.6 million through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. The funding round, which originally sought to raise a minimum of £1 million, was launched just weeks after the digital banking startup raised $25 million through… Read More

November 5, 2019 @ 4:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Madrid-based Banco Santander (Santander Group), a multinational commercial bank and financial services company, will be acquiring a 50.1% stake in Ebury for £350 million (appr. $450.9 million). Ebury is a London-based Fintech firm that offers corporate banking services to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that… Read More

November 1, 2019 @ 4:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Spanish neobank Rebellion has reportedly become the first challenger in the nation to acquire a banking license and provide International Bank Account Number (IBANs), according to a report from La Vanguardia.  The Fintech company is planning to become a neobank that “best speaks the language… Read More

October 31, 2019 @ 12:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Spanish Fintech firm PecunPay, which provides a payment and electronic funds transfer platform (managed by the Bank of Spain), has selected New York-based tech giant IBM to develop Red Hat’s Kubernetes platform OpenShift in order to help “drive business.” PecunPay reportedly manages over 500,000 cards… Read More

October 22, 2019 @ 11:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Over 650,000 companies can register to become BBVA Spain customers, via an online process that reportedly takes a few minutes to complete.  BBVA has been offering various online enrollment options for private clients. The institution is the first bank in Spain to launch an online… Read More

October 16, 2019 @ 10:46 am By JD Alois  |  

ID Finance has crowdfunded £1.5 million “within minutes” according to a note from the company. ID Finance is seeking £2 million on Crowdcube. According to the offering page, ID Finance has received the backing of 248 investors hitting  76% of the target raise. ID Finance… Read More

October 15, 2019 @ 10:25 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

BBVA announced on Tuesday it led the first funding round of PrivacyCloud, a Spanish startup developing a series of tools to allow users to control how their data are used by businesses to create commercial or marketing offers. La Sexta Opción, an investment vehicle promoted and… Read More

October 7, 2019 @ 7:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

ID Finance, said to be the fastest-growing Fintech in Spain, is queuing up a crowdfunding offering on Crowdcube. ID Finance reports that it should hit €90 million in top-line revenue this year making it one of the largest companies to raise capital on Crowdcube so… Read More

October 3, 2019 @ 10:30 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bnext, a Spain-based mobile-first neobank, announced this week it raised $25 million through its Series A funding round, which was led by DN Capital, with participation from RedAlpine, SpeedInvest, Founders Future, Cometa, Enern, USM, and Conexo. Founded last year, Bnext states it offers customized services… Read More

September 28, 2019 @ 4:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Madrid-based Minsait, a company that focuses on digital transformation while providing business management consulting services, acquired 100% of Spanish Fintech firm Afterbanks. Afterbanks’ proprietary technology is used to retrieve and aggregate data from different financial institutions, in order to process payments quickly and efficiently. Minsait’s… Read More

September 12, 2019 @ 1:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Spanish multinational commercial bank Santander has reportedly become the first financial institution to handle all aspects of a bond issuance process on a blockchain-based platform. The world’s ninth-largest financial services company used an ERC-20 compliant token to represent $20 million in issued debt, and settled… Read More

September 9, 2019 @ 11:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The government of Catalonia is developing a decentralized identity solution that will allow the autonomous community’s residents to control their data while interacting with internet-based services. Referred to as the IdentiCAT project, the launch of the new digital identity platform was announced on September 7… Read More

September 1, 2019 @ 10:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Life Length, a Spain-based telomere diagnostics and analyses company, is set to close its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube with more than £2.1 million in funding from nearly 1,000 investors. The campaign was launched earlier this summer and quickly raised £650,000 funding target. As previously… Read More

August 9, 2019 @ 10:07 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Life Length, a Spain-based telomere diagnostics and analyses company, has successfully secured £1.97 million in funding through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. The round was launched last month and quickly surpassed its £650,000 funding target. It has also attracted nearly 700 investors. Founded in… Read More

August 6, 2019 @ 2:43 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Celsius Network, a cryptocurrency lending and borrowing platform, announced on Tuesday it started offering cash and stablecoin loans to users in Spain. Accoridng to the platform, the loans are starting at just 4.95% per year and are claimed to represent the lowest cost available anywhere… Read More

June 18, 2019 @ 11:33 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

BBVA announced on Monday it has teamed up with Dufry to launched the first WeChat Pay facilities in Spain in travel retail operator’s World Duty Free stores at the Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas airport. According to BBVA, the move is a “hugely significant shift” within the… Read More

May 29, 2019 @ 7:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Nanotech firm Nanusens has closed on a crowdfunding round of €600,000 via Crowdcube. The offering was hosted via Crowdcube’s Spain facing platform. Nanusens raised approximately 3X its initial goal. The pre-money valuation was pegged at £4.9 million pounds with investors looking to purchase a 10.4%… Read More

May 8, 2019 @ 10:44 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Officers of the Spanish Civil Guard in Spain assisted by Europol have arrested eight people and charged eight more for allegedly, “…providing large-scale crypto money laundering services to other criminal organizations.” Europol says the bust of this “cryptocurrency laundering as a service business” comes follows operation… Read More