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Peru’s fintech industry is expected to get a boost this year, driven by favorable regulatory developments and rising demand for more accessible and inclusive financial services.
Javier Salinas, director of Emprende UP, the center for entrepreneurship...
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Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced that Revolut will use Stripe to support payments in the UK and Europe and accelerate its expansion into new markets.
After launching in the UK with money transfer and exchange serv...
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Sifted has released its ranking of this year’s top 100 fastest-growing business-to-business (B2B) soonicorns poised to join the ranks of Europe’s US$1 billion-plus startups.
Among this year’s ranking, 37 are B2B fintech companies, making the category...
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Anlagen in Immobilien und Hypotheken haben im Tiefzinsumfeld der letzten Jahre bei institutionellen Anlegern stark an Attraktivität gewonnen. Investitionen in Hypotheken stellen allerdings für viele Investoren Neuland dar, wie eine Studie der Hochsch...
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Switzerland’s startup competition >>venture>>announced that the Zug-based Veritic was crowned the most innovative early-stage startup in the Finance & Insurance vertical.
>>venture>> celebrated 25 years of fostering Swiss...
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In Argentina, the central bank is paving the way for open banking, introducing new regulation and initiatives to encourage digital payments and enable interoperability.
New measures for regulating virtual wallets were adopted in May 2022 by the board...
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By 2030, the metaverse could generate up to US$5 trillion in impact, a sizeable opportunity that will be brought about rapid adoption of immersive virtual environments by consumers, rising openness to digital assets and new technologies, and heavy in...
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SIX Digital Exchange’s Web3 dedicated unit, SDX Web3 Services, announces a strategic collaboration with Fireblocks, the digital asset and crypto technology platform.
SDX Web3 Services is already working on integrating SDX non-custodial staking access...
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The European Union (EU) brings crypto-assets, crypto-asset issuers and crypto-asset service providers under a regulatory framework for the first time.
The Council presidency and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on the markets i...
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The much-anticipated seventh edition of the Swiss Fintech Awards has announced the winners for the year 2022 on the evening of June 29 in Zurich.
This year’s awards had three categories; Fintech Influencer of the Year, Growth Stage Startup of the Yea...
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The much-anticipated seventh edition of the Swiss Fintech Awards has announced the winners for the year 2022 on the evening of June 29 in Zurich.
This year’s awards had three categories; Fintech Influencer of the Year, Growth Stage Startup of the Yea...
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This year’s cryptocurrency crash, which saw the market lose more than half of its value in the span of six months, is threatening to bring sports sponsorship deals to a halt as crypto companies look to cut costs.
Sources with direct knowledge told Th...
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2021 was a blockbuster year for fintech funding globally. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, also referred to as the DACH region, fintech funding increased four-fold to US$10.8 billion, data from research platform Fintech Global show.
To showcase t...
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iCapital, a fintech platform for alternative investments and investors, announced that the Bank of America has made a strategic investment in the company.
Bank of America invested in iCapital at the same valuation as iCapital’s last funding round in...
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The European Union (EU) was among the world’s pioneers in open banking regulation, adopting since the late 2000s a series of directives to allow new types of market players to provide payment services alongside credit institutions, ultimately increas...