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This week, Finovate Global looks at recent fintech developments in France. French start-up Lydia announced the launch of a new digital banking brand this week. Named Sumeria, Lydia plans to invest more than €100 million in the new initiative, as well as hire 400 people over the next three years. Sumeria, according to a post Read more…
Challenge Accepted! Monzo Raises Millions U.K.-based challenger bank Monzo secured an additional $190 million (£150 million) in funding this week, adding to the $426 million (£340 million) raised just a few days ago. The Series I round, totaling $616 million (£490 million) gives the digital bank a valuation of $5.2 billion (£4.1 billion) and represents Read more…
A few days ago, we highlighted the $25.7 million (€24.1 million) investment secured by Danish challenger bank Lunar. Also this week, we noted partnership news from Denmark-based real estate tokenization platform – and FinovateSpring alum – DigiShares. With all this Danish fintech news, we are devoting this week’s edition of Finovate Global to the fintech Read more…
This week’s edition of Finovate Global reviews the latest fintech developments in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). This region features a diverse range of countries including Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia. More than 250 million people live in the CEE, which has a Read more…
This week Finovate Global looks at recent fintech news from Africa’s most populous nation: Nigeria. Nigerian blockchain network Zone secures investment Last week in Finovate Global we noted the news that Nigerian blockchain network Zone had raised $8.5 million in seed funding. This week we’re filling in some of the details of the investment – Read more…
This week’s edition of Finovate Global reviews the latest fintech headlines from Israel. We also introduce you to a quartet of new Finovate alums – all making their Finovate debuts at FinovateEurope last month – all headquartered in Israel. AU10TIX expands its Digital ID identity verification solution Israel-based identity verification and management specialist AU10TIX announced Read more…
This week’s edition of Finovate Global features the latest fintech news from Germany, where investors are backing innovations in embedded finance, payments companies are taking advantage of open banking, and the green shoots of crypto spring are growing ever more apparent. Solaris secures funding Germany’s embedded finance platform Solaris secured $103 million (€96 million) in Read more…
This week’s edition of Finovate Global takes a look at recent fintech developments and news from Sweden. Over the years, Finovate has been proud to showcase a number of fintechs from Sweden, a country with a population of more than 10.5 million and the twelfth largest economy as measured by GDP. Last month at FinovateEurope, Read more…
This week’s edition of Finovate Global takes a look at recent fintech developments in Latin America. The region was one of the few places in the world to see significant fintech funding in Q2 of 2023. Further, fintech in Latin America will be the focus of a special panel at FinovateSpring in May. Here are Read more…
FinovateEurope 2024 will have its fair share of local talent demoing live on the Finovate stage on 27 February in London. And while we’re looking forward to the return of FinovateEurope 2023 Best of Show winner NayaOne, we’re also excited to meet a whole bunch of U.K.-based fintechs that are making their Finovate debuts: FinovateEurope Read more…
This week in Finovate Global we take a look at some recent fintech developments in Mexico. First up is news that Grupo Financiero Banorte has launched Mexico’s first fully digital bank, bineo. The company noted that it hopes to add 2.8 million new customers in the next five years. “The launch of bineo is a Read more…
Swiss fintech Temenos launched its end-to-end Temenos Enterprise Services on the Temenos Banking Cloud this week. The new offering will enable banks to lower the cost, complexity, and risk of modernization, and deploy new software solutions in 24 hours. Temenos President Product and Chief Operating Officer Prima Varadhan called the offering “a game-changing approach.” Varadhan Read more…