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House Financial Services Committee Adds Working Group Targeting Digital Assets
The House Committee on Financial Services already has two current task forces addressing innovation in financial services. A Task Force on Fintech and a Task Force on Artificial Intelligence. Today, the Committee is adding a “Working Group” addressing Digital Assets. Congresswoman Maxine Waters …
Recently Publicly Listed SoFi Receives Higher Price Target on Potential to Challenge Old Banks
SoFi (NASDAQ:SOFI), a leading Fintech that recently went public in a SPAC deal, has received a positive analyst report due to the company’s potential to disintermediate old financial services firms. According to multiple reports, Rosenblatt has given SoFi a $30 price target for the Fintech…. Rea…
Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Paul Tudor Jones Recommends 5% Bitcoin Allocation but CoinShares Suggests Only 4%
Meltem Demirors, the Chief Strategy Officer at CoinShares, one of the largest digital asset managers in the world, notes that billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones recommends a 5% allocation to Bitcoin (BTC) as an “effective portfolio diversifier.” 1/ paul tudor jones suggests a… Rea…
European P2P Lending Platform Mintos Reports that Investors with a Long-Term Investment Strategy Earn More Consistently
The team at Mintos, a peer to peer lending marketplace, notes that goals are proven to have an “energizing” role in our lives, and the higher or greater the goal, the more effort we are likely to put into achieving it. Mintos adds that by… Read More The post European P2P Lending Platform Minto…
Estonia based Digital Asset Investment App Change Acquires $4.5M in Capital from 50 Private Investors
Digital asset investing app provider Change has acquired $4.5 million in capital from 50 private investors at a $214 million valuation. The funds were secured through crowdfunding. Change is reportedly backed by more than 7,000 private investors. The crypto investment app developer says it will… R…
UK Fintech Modulr Explains how they Helped Direct Lender Moneyboat Enhance its Operations
UK-based Fintech firm Modulr notes that direct lender Moneyboat had been quite frustrated by the limitations of the existing banking system. That’s why Moneyboat decided to leverage certain infrastructural Fintech payments solutions to provide faster onboarding, automated, real-time loan disbursem…
Volante Technologies and SIA to Support Instant Cloud-powered Payments Across Europe
Volante Technologies, an established provider of Cloud-based payments and financial messaging, and SIA, a European hi-tech firm focused on payment services and infrastructures (controlled by CDP Equity), have teamed up to enable banking institutions, financial service providers to gain access to i…
Paris based Fintech Upflow, which Addresses Late Payments, Secures $15M from 9yards Capital, Others
Paris-based Upflow, a startup that assists B2B firms with getting paid, has secured $15 million in capital via a Series A round which included contributions from 9yards Capital, eFounders, and angels N26 co-founder Maximilian Tayenthal and Uber exec Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty. Companies or businesses …
New Zealand BNPL Fintech Laybuy Introduces All-Digital Buy Now Pay Later Card in the UK
New Zealand based Buy Now, Pay Later Fintech firm Laybuy is introducing its all-digital BNPL card in the United Kingdom, allowing clients to carry out in-store purchases with just a tap of their smartphones. Clients will be able to load the payment card into their… Read More The post New Zealand B…
UK’s BankiFi Expands Operations to Australia
UK-based technology platform BankiFi has entered the Australian Financial Services market to provide quick payment transfer, allowing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and avoid issues like late payment and other cashflow-related woes. The company has already been engaging with Australian fi…