The digital payment industry is set to grow to be worth $154.1bn by 2025, according to new research. Given the market is expected to be worth $79.3bn in 2020, that represents a compound annual growth rate of 14.2% over the next five years, according to MarketsAndMarkets. The growth is driven by two things: the transforming …
Security platform Cyberpion has closed its seed round on $8.25m to help it increase its sales and marketing efforts. The investment capital will also be used to expand the product development efforts for its Ecosystem Security™ platform. Team8 Capital and Hyperwise Ventures co-led the investment. Cyberpion empowers security teams to identify and neutralise the rising …
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Upside Saving, which helps people to make savings through cashback, has raised £325,431 in a crowdfunding campaign which has exceeded its target. The funding, which is being raised on the Seedrs platform, still has another seven days left. There have been 264 investors to back the fundraise and a total of 6.96% of the company’s …
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WealthTech companies raised $2.8bn in the third quarter of 2020 across 111 transactions, a five-quarter high for deal activity Global WealthTech funding had a slow start to 2020 as rising concerns about the economy caused by Covid-19 and huge losses at leading challenger banks such as Monzo, Revolut and Starling deterred investors. Only $3.3bn was invested in …
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Nigeria-based loan marketplace Evolve Credit has reportedly received an investment from Microtraction, an early-stage investor focused on African startups. The deal will see Evolve Credit receive $25,000 in exchange for a 7% stake in the business, according to a report from Innovation Village. Through Evolve Credit, users can access personal or SME loans from a range …
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Italian payment firm Nexi, and Italian investment firm, SIA, have merged catapulting the joint company into the nation’s top 10 publicly traded businesses with annual revenue of 1.8 billion euros ($US 2 billion), a market value of more than 15 billion euros ($US 17 billion) and over a 70% market share in Italy. The two …
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Netherlands-based Blockdata, which provides qualitative insights into the range of large enterprises using blockchain technology, has been acquired by data provider CB Insights. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. New York City’s CB Insights will be opening an office in Amsterdam, while Blockdata will remain a standalone product with its own team. Blockdata’s work will also …
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On Budget Day, September 15, 2020, the government presented the 2021 Tax Plan package to the Lower House of Parliament. It contains the following bills: 2021 Tax Plan Other tax measures 2021 Changes to Box 3 Act; Differentiation of Real Estate Transfer Tax Act; CO2 tax on Industrial Emissions Act Improved Feasibility of Allowances Act …
Federal data protection standards must be created to allow open banking to take off in the US, said Abishek Gupta, head of BBVA Open Platform, BBVA during a Fintech Talents North America panel yesterday. “I agree there has to be some minimum standards across all of those principles to capture it all, and at the …
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Amsterdam-based Blockport is one of the first European cryptocurrency exchanges to launch an equity-based security token offering (STO). The newly-issued token, Blockport Securities (BPS), is a fully compliant security token linked to company shares, entitling BPS holders to any declared dividends. Blockport offers a cryptocurrency trading platform to buy and sell cryptocurrency directly with Euros. Those …
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