Category: digital currencies

Last Friday, I visited Blender Gallery in Athens for an exhibition by Philip Tsiaras. When speaking gallery’s curator I was pleasantly surprised to find out that they had created NFTs of the artist’s artwork, making them available on their curated marketplace called “Blenderverse.” It’s no secret that NFTs changed the art game. Although non-fungible tokens…

Despite its huge adoption rates in the last few years, there is still a lot of scepticism surrounding cryptocurrencies:  the knowledge gap is extremely large resulting in many believing cryptocurrencies do nothing but enable money laundering and other types of crime. However, with the right regulations in place, more may feel more confident in approaching…

The standalone products that once provided direct-to-consumer offerings through independent companies or partnerships with larger financial institutions are expected to be replaced by tied-in embedded finance products. This is the key insight provided by the sequel to Rize Money‘s original industry insight whitepaper. Rize is a fintech infrastructure platform that provides fintechs and non-financial companies…

Arbitrage is a technique used by publishers to get low-quality website visitors to click on high-value adverts, and as brought to light by the cybersecurity firm Polygraph, it’s working in a very similar way to click fraud. But unlike click fraud, which is when the traffic statistics for an online advertisement are artificially inflated, arbitragers…

Amazon Payment Services, a digital payments company operating across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), participated in Seamless Middle East 2022. Amazon Payment Services leaders addressed an audience of fintech and online retail innovators, startups, and business leaders to discuss innovation and shed light on how customers will dictate the future of payments. Amazon…

Today marks 50 years since the United Nations designated 5 June as World Environment Day, which advocates sustainability and environmental moderation within every facet of life. Under this year’s theme ‘Only One Earth’, the same title used in the original 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment from which the event was derived, today we…

Digital payment provider Bexs Pay has partnered with Nubank to operate transactions from the NuPay payment solution on cross-border ecommerce platforms. Bexs Pay employs a cross-border model that connects people and companies in Brazil and around the world. The platform lets Brazilians consume international products and services and pay using local methods and currency, such as credit…

It is very easy for many who are new to the fintech space to think that financial technology is an exclusive term for payments technology, and while there is some truth to this, it does not tell the entire story about fintech. However, in June, The Fintech Times is looking to indulge this belief as…

Yolt, the European data driven open banking provider, has teamed up with October, a lending platform for small and medium businesses (SMEs), to speed up loan application processes. Through their collaboration, Yolt and October demonstrate ‘how open banking can play an increasingly vital role’ in providing greater financial inclusion for SMEs, while making the process…

The early-stage company financing platform Debite has launched in the UK in an attempt to help businesses manage cash flow and maximise growth potential more effectively. Tackling one of the primary reasons why most start-ups fail, Debite’s buy now pay later (BNPL) model means customers benefit from smoothing the cost of expensive business payments, such…