7/31/2020 8:50:54 PM Sigma Ratings sponsors ACFCS's upcoming FinCrime virtual week By Sarah Wolter As a lead ACFCS conference sponsor, Sigma will host investigative workshops and meetings about its Terminal product which helps risk and...
7/31/2020 6:30:07 PM Founder Hits Jackpot Thanks to China’s Love of Stock Trading By Gareth Jones A good Bloomberg article on the origin and growth of Futu during COVID. Futu was founded by Tencent’s 18th employee who left to start the...
7/31/2020 6:15:48 PM Will superfunds come to the rescue of UK pensions? By Gareth Jones The FT explores a new breed of corporate consolidator which is preparing to swoop on UK pensions. Last month, UK regulators gave the...
7/31/2020 6:11:44 PM Tink aims to be the brains of open banking By Gareth Jones Daniel Kjellén, Tink’s CEO, tells the FT that the company he co-founded in 2012 is aiming to be the “rails and brains” of open banking.
7/31/2020 4:20:24 PM Aggregators now drive 20% of Ethereum DEX volume By FinTech Collective The aggregators are seeing early product-market-fit and will be able to capture significant value as the DeFi ecosystem grows.
7/31/2020 2:27:44 PM Shopify: GMV OMG - Goods trafficked on company’s website reached $30bn in the second quarter By Gareth Jones Shopify announced this week that the gross merchandise volume (GMV) of goods trafficked on its website reached $30bn in the second...
7/31/2020 2:06:43 PM DBS trials SingPass face verification for digital banking sign-ups By FinTech Collective The bank is working with the Singapore government to use face verification technology to sign up customers on its digital banking platform.
7/31/2020 2:02:04 PM Varo Money granted national bank charter By FinTech Collective San Francisco based consumer fintech firm that closed a $241m funding round last month is to be granted national bank charter allowing...
7/31/2020 1:52:35 PM Point wants to provide credit card rewards with debit cards By FinTech Collective US based new challenger bank with a focus on rewards associated with a debit card has launched publicly with an invite system.
7/31/2020 1:46:12 PM Trading is live on Dharma By FinTech Collective Users can now search and trade 2000+ tokens in Uniswap through portfolio company Dharma with zero gas fees. Dharma is the first mobile...
7/31/2020 12:53:31 PM Affirm prepares IPO that could value fintech firm at up to $10b By Sarah Wolter Investor interest in the fintech industry, which digitizes functions such as payments and lending, has exploded as consumers increasingly...
7/31/2020 12:49:49 PM Micro business platform ZenBusiness acquires fintech startup Joust By Sarah Wolter Austin based Joust, founded in 2017, marks ZenBusiness’ first acquisition. ZenBusiness offers an online platform for entrepreneurs to...
7/30/2020 11:58:46 PM Instant payments in Colombia: Transfiya transfers multiply By Carlos Alonso Torras Spearheaded by portfolio company Minka, Transfiya, a new system system for instant P2P payments in Colombia, is quickly gaining strength.
7/30/2020 11:49:38 PM Investors gear up for acquisitions in Brazilian IT sector By Carlos Alonso Torras Rebel CEO & President of the Brazilian Association of Digital Credit - Rafael Pereira - shares perspectives on currently increasing...
7/30/2020 9:32:33 PM Antitrust showdown in congress: big tech, meet big government By Sarah Wolter The continued reflexive embrace of antitrust regulation is an original sin of the administrative state with vast, potentially destructive...
7/30/2020 9:25:18 PM Goldman Sachs says gold will surge another 20% and hit $2,300 in the next year, driven by rock-bottom interest rates By Sarah Wolter Continuous streams of stimulus and measures taken by policymakers to fight the economic downturn caused by pandemic will lead to a...