Category: digital currencies

PeoPay, a Polish banking application, is gradually unveiling its new functionalities. Bank Pekao, together with the Efigence team, designed innovative solutions, strongly focusing on personalisation and adaptation to the essential needs and behaviours of users who actively use the online and mobile environment. One of the most important goals of refreshing the application was to…

The UK-based banking-as-a-service (BaaS) fintech Griffin has submitted its application to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) whilst it completes its application for a banking licence. “This is a major milestone for the company and a direct result of the team’s hard work and thoughtful approach to building a…

With outposts in both Singapore and Tokyo, the Japanese startup accelerator TECHFUND continues to expand its market footprint having established an additional foothold in Europe. The Tokyo-native accelerator has previously worked with blockchain and token-related startups primarily within the Asian market. TECHFUND seeks to act as an arranger and accelerating partner through the process of…

Viridios AI (“Viridios” or “the Company”), an AI-driven carbon market intelligence, has launched its VAI platform, providing Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) participants with complete and dynamic carbon market intelligence on a single dashboard for the first time. The Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets estimates that the market for carbon credits could be worth $50billion…

On 10 May, Prince Charles stood in for the Queen at the House of Lords to give a speech outlining her government’s legislative priorities, listing the bills it plans to bring before MPs and peers. Let’s take a look at how the Queen’s Speech will impact the financial technology community. New legislation aims to ‘strengthen…

Amidst the recent crypto market crash, Relai, the savings and investment app, has confirmed it has plans to launch a Bitcoin debit card. The Bitcoin savings app is currently raising via Crowdcube, where it hit its target of €1.5million just two hours after going live. Since then, the Crowdcube community has jumped at the opportunity…

The latest FintechOS features will allow traditional institutions to create, customise and distribute their own buy now pay later (BNPL) products; alongside additional embedded lending solutions. The fintech infrastructure provider is appropriately placed to empower established financial brands to step outside the box of traditional payments and credit product definitions and into the booming BNPL…

A refer-a-friend offering, rewarding existing customers with £20 when they successfully refer family and friends to open a current account with Chase, has been launched by the digital bank. New customers who have been referred to Chase, and deposited a minimum of £20 into their account within 30 days, will also receive £20. Customers will…

Various museums in Italy have turned to the Shanghai mobile and payments platform Alipay to enhance their interactions with this summer’s influx of Chinese tourists; even though no actual tourists are expected to arrive. A total of nine Italian museums, palaces and galleries will be working with the digital open platform this season to ensure…