ICYMI funding round-up: FinanZero, Hala, Spoko, Cornerstone & more
Another week and another slew of funding rounds.
Another week and another slew of funding rounds.
Soaring to new heights: a record-breaking first quarter of M&A activity.
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
Featuring Dataminr, Blockchain, Feedzai, Jumio, and Pie Insurance.
The scope and applications are vast, and there’s real potential in online gaming.
We’re likely to see increased collaboration across the financial world.
Featuring Public, Webull, Blockchain, GoCardless, and Personetics.
Modern blockchain powered barter systems will change the way we view accessing, growing, and owning wealth.
Which coins will rise in price and which ones will fall?
Bitcoin hit lows of around $18,700 in early December.
We cover embedded finance, competition, open banking, and CBDCs.
The new global payment system should replace all current payment and settlement arrangements.
European suppliers are essential in the building of technology on which a digital euro will operate.
Novi’s digital wallet is “ready from a product perspective”.
Lessons in adaptability – how to manage a project in an innovation lab amid COVID-19.
Figure wants to simplify its regulatory and compliance procedures.
Brussels-based firm will use cash to accelerate its product offering.
The project is calling for further partners to join the project to boost overall usage in Spain.
James Sullivan worked as Monzo’s head of legal for one year and nine months.
The bank is looking at a CBDC for “wholesale market participants”.
BitGo had a valuation of around $170 million in 2018.
If the art of the possible is being explored, the art of the valuable remains elusive.
Jamie Dimon believes plenty of outsourcing firms “have no idea what they’re doing”.
JP Morgan has also made an undisclosed strategic investment in ConsenSys.
The partnership will perform technical research related to a central bank digital currency (CBDC).
It would operate under Russia’s new cryptocurrency law.
Last year, the sandbox recieved a record 99 applications.
The bank says it will begin work in the “coming days”.
The platform has programmed more than 20,000 instant credit transfers.
The blockchain network is jointly developed with JP Morgan and investment firm Temasek.
This is the second delay for the infrastructure project.
It is understood the services will offer “a built-in wallet functionality” so you can store crypto.
Blockchain and other DLT secure data by making it immutable.
To develop industry standards, four things need to happen.
Blockchain fund operator aims to be “pioneer” for crypto consulting.
The tax problems with this proposal identified in our client briefing on Libra 1.0 remain unresolved.
But we are already drowning in a sea of data.
From July 2020, We.Trade is on the look out for more bank partners.
The fintech is backed by Coldplay’s bassist Guy Berryman.
If successful, the project could be deployed to RBI’s CEE countries.