Admiral Markets continues investing in FinTech LeapRate

March 22, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Admiral Markets continues investing in FinTech

International financial services company Admiral Markets AS just announced that it has made an investment of €150,000 in the Estonian fintech company Bankish. Admiral Markets has already made the first step in fintech, investing in crowdfunding platform Fundwise back in October 2018. Sergei Bogatenkov, Chairman of the Management Board of Admiral Markets AS, commented: This partnership…

Match-Trade launches a Partnership Program

March 21, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Backpack collaborates with Praxis Cashier to launch Backpack Pay

Backpack, a comprehensive SaaS back office solution, today officially launched Backpack Pay, a smart payments software for accepting payments. The new product was developed in conjunction with Praxis Cashier Systems Ltd, a payments software solutions providers serving fintech companies. Backpack is known as a comprehensive SaaS platform for back office operations and offers a portfolio…

February 26, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Avelacom teams up with Interxion to extend its low latency network to Dublin

The European provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centre services Interxion Holding NV (NYSE:INXN) has been selected by Avelacom as its data centre partner of choice in Ireland. Avelacom is working with Interxion to extend its low latency network to Dublin. Avelacom has just added Dublin as latest point of presence (PoP) to its growing list of connectivity, which…

February 14, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

ayondo Ltd to sell UK subsidiary ayondo markets to BUX Holding

Global financial technology and social trading group ayondo Ltd just announced its plans for a possible sale of their UK subsidiary, ayondo markets Ltd to BUX Holding B.V. BUX Financial Services B.V. The Amsterdam-based FinTech company is a subsidiary of BUX Holding B.V, which already is a tied agent of ayondo markets Limited and its largest…

LeapRate interview: Defense against toxic flow, Jeff Wilkins speaks

February 14, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

UNSGSA: Regulatory sandboxes not the only tools for regulating inclusive FinTech

A new report titled Early Lessons on Regulatory Innovations to Enable Inclusive Fintech indicates that regulatory sandboxes are not the sole vehicle that can be used by regulatory authorities to encourage financial inclusion, and that there are other tools such as innovation offices that could achieve the same results/goal. The report was commissioned by the United Nations Secretary…

New Broadridge portal automates and transforms the MBS Trade Assignment Process

February 08, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Attendees at Paris Fintech Forum lose crypto fever and focus on banking

Paris in the middle of winter can be brutal, but one year ago, attendees at the Paris Fintech Forum were hot with crypto fever. When one of Europe’s biggest annual gatherings of its kind convened this year in the City of Light, over 3,000 entrepreneurs, investors, bankers, and regulators braved the cold once again, but…

December 31, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Humaniq teams up with Hope for Lives in Sierra Leone and FinTech4Good

The London-based fintech firm Humaniq has announced the concurrent signing of two Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with Hope for Lives in Sierra Leone and FinTech4Good. Both are prominent US-based organizations that will be part of Humaniq’s new strategy, with the company aiming to position itself as a technology platform facilitating new blockchain-based charity solution for the developing…

December 18, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

The future of FinTech – 8 trends that will disrupt the financial landscape

The financial services industry has never been as exciting as other technology-driven genres. Things, however, changed a few years back, when blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies seized the imagination of the public, and more importantly, the imagination of entrepreneurs, investors, and the venture funding establishment. The new buzzword around town became “FinTech”, a bit sexier than…

November 29, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Chinese Fintech company Paytend chooses Lithuania for European headquarters

Paytend Technology, a Chinese company developing and selling financial services software, has just announced that it has chosen Vilnius, Lithuania, for its European headquarters. The company plans to hire up to 50 highly qualified professionals in the fields of sales marketing, compliance, product development and customer support in the following 3 years. Obtaining an electronic…

DFSA launches Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform

November 26, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

VNX Exchange teams up with SnT to create a cybersecurity market ecosystem

VNX Exchange, the trading platform for tokenized venture capital assets has just informed the public that it has teamed up with the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) to create a new standard of security for the market ecosystem for digital assets. The resulting technology may halve the global costs…

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