On Finovate.com

• “Fintech Favorites: Blockchain, the Banks, and the Underbanked”

• Lleida.net Brings Connectaclick to Ecuador’s Banco Pichincha.

Around the web

• Swiss fintech innovator Net Guardians to deploy its security solution, FraudGuardian, with National Bank of Malawi.

• iSignthis partners with Leverate Financial Services, providing the online FX and CFD broker with its full Paydentity solution.

• YourStory profiles Finovate newcomer MarketsMojo and its plan to make equity investing mainstream.

• Frankfurter Allgemeine features Fintura in a look at the fintech scene in Frankfurt.

• True Potential wins approval as workplace pension adviser from The Pensions Regulator.

• PayPal reports mobile shopping represented a third of sales on Thanksgiving and Black Friday.

• Lighter Capital named the fastest growing private tech company in Washington state.

• LTP lists BankBazaar, CoverHound, InforcePRO, and Sureify on its list of revolutionary insuretech startups.

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