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Fintech incubator and accelerator F10 has announced the list of ten promising startups joining the second cohort of its incubation programme in Barcelona.
Selected from more than 180 national and international applications, this batch brings innovati...
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TIFIN, a fintech platform using AI for wealth and asset management, announced the successful closing of US$47 million in Series C funding.
The firm closes its Series C round at a valuation of US$447 million, which is nearly five times higher than its...
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Austrian digital investment platform Bitpanda announced that it has appointed Joshua Barraclough as the CEO of Bitpanda Pro, its digital asset exchange for professionals and businesses to trade.
Josh joins Bitpanda from J.P. Morgan, where he held key...
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Brazilian challenger bank Nubank has filed for its initial public offering (IPO) and is expected to go public in the U.S. by early 2022, according to Forbes.
Nubank had filed both with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the U.S. and the...
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This year, the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) bill entered into full force in Switzerland, opening up new opportunities and business models by providing legal clarity in areas including ledger-based securities and digital securities exchanges.
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Onfido, a London-based identity verification and authentication provider, announced the acquisition of complementary solution provider EYN. Details of the transaction was not disclosed.
EYN’s acoustic liveness technology will be incorporated in...
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Swedish Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) platform Klarna announced a strategic partnership with Irish-American payment processing platform Stripe.
The partnership will allow millions of businesses across the US and 19 countries in Europe running on Stripe t...
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Mastercard and Bakkt announced a multifaceted partnership at Money20/20 to enable merchants, banks and fintechs in the U.S. to offer cryptocurrency solutions and services.
Bakkt is a digital currency company that specialises in concurrency, rewards,...
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Swiss spend management specialist Yokoy has raised US$26 million in a Series A funding round led by US investor Left Lane Capital, with participation from prominent European investor, Balderton Capital.
Yokoy will look to use the new funds to expand...
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Billie, a Berlin-based “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) platform for businesses, announced that it has closed a successful Series C funding round of US$100 million, increasing its valuation to US$640 million which has nearly quadrupled since the last fund...
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fixmyspace, a newly established Swiss proptech firm, announced that it has just launched its mobile application and online platform for the Romandy region.
The startup said that it aims to standardise and optimise the process of repairs and breakdown...
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Despite being ranked this year’s most-innovative economy and boasting a dynamic fintech ecosystem, Switzerland’s residents are still reluctant to joining neobanks and non-traditional banking providers, indicating that digital challengers still have a...
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Boasting one of the densest network of startups, deepest pools of experienced talent and some of the world’s most sophisticated investors, Berlin is a major tech powerhouse and one of the world’s largest fintech hubs in the world.
The city is home to...
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DocuSign, a US-based e-signature technology provider, has introduced DocuSign Ventures, which will co-invest in as well as partner with companies raising early stage funding to innovate around the agreement process.
By staying close to and working wi...
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A number of US lawmakers jointly issued a statement saying that Facebook cannot be trusted to manage cryptocurrency and has urged Mark Zuckerberg to stop the launch of Novi and Diem immediately.
Facebook had just announced the pilot launch of Novi, t...