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Scalable Capital, a German-based neobroker and digital wealth manager, has raised more than US$180 million (€150 million) in a Series E funding round led by China’s technology company Tencent.
This purely primary investment round where existing share...
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2 years ago
Brazilian challenger bank Nubank announced that it has raised a total of US$ 750 million during two extensions of its Series G funding round, raising the round to US$1.15 billion.
During the first extension, the challenger bank secured US$500 million...
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2 years ago
The Swiss banking market is among the most traditional in Europe. With a number of native traditional, private banks and a few European challengers attempting to penetrate the market, it stands to say that the digital banking landscape is evolving ra...
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2 years ago
Despite an initial fall in transaction value and volume in the first half of 2020, fintech funding in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, or the DACH region, rebounded significantly in the second half of the year with EUR 2.2 billion raised during H2 2...
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2 years ago
Cryptocurrencies have been all the rage this year with total market capitalization surging 132% since the beginning of the year.
Given this crypto frenzy, it is quite remarkable how some of the top marketcap ranking firms have eluded mainstream atte...
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2 years ago
Trulioo, a Canadian global identity and business verification provider, announced that it has completed a US$394 million Series D round at a US$1.75 billion valuation.
The Series D round was led by TCV, a growth equity firm, with participation from e...
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2 years ago
Switzerland’s startup competition >>venture>> has announced its list of 52 finalists for its 2021 competition.
The competition has finalists from five different verticals namely Finance and Insurance, Health and Nutrition, ICT, Reta...
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2 years ago
Despite the loosening of restrictions, webinars and,virtual events continue to be widely popular.
As fintech continues to shake up the traditional financial services industry and see rising adoption, we’ve compiled today a list of the top 10 we...
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2 years ago
PayAlly, a London-based fully integrated payments ecosystem for SMEs, has selected global financial infrastructure provider Banking Circle‘s solutions to improve its multi-currency B2B cross border payments services.
In particular, the new part...
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2 years ago
Swedish Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) firm Klarna has launched its shopping app where UK’s users can pay in three monthly installments at any online retailer, regardless of whether they’re partnered with the firm or not, directly through the its ap...
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2 years ago
Red Bull Racing Honda has confirmed a new multi-year technical partnership with Tezos, a Luxembourg- based decentralised, open-source blockchain network, as the team’s official blockchain partner.
As part of this initiative, Red Bull Racing Honda wil...
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2 years ago
Capchase, a New York-based a platform for recurring-revenue companies to secure non-dilutive capital, has announced a US$125 million Series A investment, led by QED Investors.
Additional investors in the round include early backers Bling Capital, Sci...
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2 years ago
Efma, an association of more than 2,550 retail financial services companies in 133 countries, and Accenture announced the winners of the sixth annual Innovation in Insurance Awards.
The awards competition, which recognizes the best insurance technolo...
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Switzerland -
2 years ago
Efma, an association of more than 2,550 retail financial services companies in 133 countries, and Accenture announced the winners of the sixth annual Innovation in Insurance Awards.
The awards competition, which recognizes the best insurance technolo...
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2 years ago
Last year, cryptocurrency hedge fund assets nearly doubled to hit a new record as the industry delivered outstanding performance.
Amid a crypto market bull run, total assets under management (AuM) of crypto hedge funds surged from just over US$2 bill...