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On Finovate.com TransferWise to Power Payroll for Crowdfunding Platform Seedrs. Behalf Lands Equity Funding and Secures $150 Million in Debt Financing. Blockchain Appoints New President and Chief Legal Officer. Our latest FinovateMiddleEast Sneak Peeks are up. Meet: Wealth Migrate CapitaWorld ME Dorsum Around the web Challenger bank Tandem to leverage Personetics Cognitive Banking Brain to Read more…
Spanish fintech Finect announced today that Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME) has acquired a 9.7% stake in the company in a transaction valued at “lower than one million euros.” Finect provides a social trading community for investors to communicate with and learn from financial professionals. Nearly two million users take advantage of Finect’s solutions, including its Read more…
Stratumn, a startup that leverages the blockchain to reinvent how businesses create trust online, launched the beta of a plug-and-play software product today. Dubbed IndigoTrace, it’s a user-friendly API that allows business administrators to create a workflow and invite participants, giving them each a role designated by a public/private key. Users can add inputs to Read more…
Peer-to-peer small business financing platform Bitbond has entered into a partnership with 1741 Fund Management to launch an alternative investment fund. The new investment opportunity is made possible through an open-ended investment fund from 1741 Fund Management. Through the partnership, any institutional investor will have access to a diversified portfolio of small business loans that Read more…
Designed by Freepik The MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region has experienced the highest rate of population growth of any region in the world over the past 100 years. Today, the countries of MENA boast more than 380 million people or 6% of the world’s population. And as leaders in the region respond to Read more…
On Finovate.com Japanese Telecom NTT to Distribute Trusona Technology in Japan. RealtyMogul Introduces new President, Aaron Halfacre. Tradeshift Launches Innovation Center to Bring the Blockchain to Business Commerce. Payfone Teams Up with U.K. Mobile Network Operator. Expensify Reports More than 1 Million New Users and Double the Partnerships in 2017. Around the web Forbes highlights Read more…
Designed by Freepik With more than 400 attendees, more than 100 scheduled speakers, and more than 20 fintech innovators demonstrating their technologies live on stage, Finovate’s first foray into the Middle East next month is an event not to be missed. Dubai, the largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, will host Read more…
Designed by Naumaan Hassan As Finovate prepares for its first conference in the Middle East, here’s a round up of recent fintech news and need-to-knows from the MENA region. Learn more about how to join us in Dubai in February for FinovateMiddleEast. Dubai-based ArabianChain launches cryptocurrency exchange, Palmex. Qatar commits to building fintech hub. UAE-based Noor Bank announces Read more…
In an oversubscribed Series B round led by Draper Esprit, cryptocurrency and blockchain security firm Ledger has raised $75 million (€61 million) in new funding. The investment takes the company’s total capital to more than $85 million. “We initially designed our Ledger hardware wallet as an enabler for the blockchain revolution,” Ledger CEO Eric Larcheveque Read more…
FinovateEurope is bringing you more this year. In addition to two days packed full of demos, we’ve added two days of discussion that will help you not only digest the new innovations, but also bring an analytical perspective from top industry leaders on key fintech trends and issues. It’s all happening March 6 through 9 Read more…
Image by Tamer Fahmy As Finovate prepares for its first conference in the Middle East, here’s a round up of recent fintech news and need-to-knows from the MENA region. Learn more about how to join us in Dubai in February for FinovateMiddleEast. Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) and Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB) forge fintech cooperation agreement, Read more…
Blockchain solutions innovator Ripple announced plans to team up with remittance services company MoneyGram. This announcement comes at a time when both Ripple and MoneyGram have been in the news headlines. Many outlets have reported on Ripple for the volatility of XRP, its digital currency (and for the rumored rise of its founder, Chris Larsen, as Read more…