Category: FinTech
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CrowdInvesting – Fintech Qonto Raises Five Million Euros Few!
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The French Fintech Qonto raised five million euros in its crowdfunding round within 6.5 hours on CrowdCube. Qonto is a Payment Institution regulated, approved and supervised by the French Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR). The company has already raised €486 million in Series D funding and stated earlier…
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Green Technology – Flagship Founders Launches Zero44 from
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Company builder Flagship Founders has spun off its third startup, Zero44. The startup measures the CO2 emissions of ships and provides recommendations on how shipping companies can optimize their processes to be as low-emission as possible. The Berlin-based start-up is headed by co-founders Friederike Hesse and Nils Obermann. Zero44 aims…
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PureSoftware Receives SBR Technology Excellence Award
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The SBR Technology Excellence Awards (link) is one of the most prestigious awards programs for technological innovations, recognizing exceptional companies in Singapore that are riding the digital disruption wave and leading the technological revolution and digital journeys of their respective industries. PureSoftware is awarded for delivering a strong banking impact through…
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Presenting The Swiss Fintech Awards 2022 Finalists
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Ten start-ups will advance to the next round of the Swiss Fintech Awards 2022. Teams will emerge as winners in the Early Stage and Growth Stage categories at the awards ceremony on June 29. The purpose of the Awards is to promote Swiss fintech, InsurTech, and blockchain innovators and to contribute…
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Trustly Wins “FinTech Of The Year 2022” Award
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Trustly (PC42 profile) was named FinTech of the Year 2022 for retail payments by readers of the FinTech Spotlight report series, as voted by industry stakeholders and advisors at Aite-Novarica Group. trustly serves 8,100 merchants, connecting them with 525 million consumers and 6,300 banks in over 30 countries. In 2020,…
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100 Million Dollar Deal: Italian Nets Acquires German Startup Orderbird!
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The Berlin-based iPad POS operator was taken over by its Italian minority shareholder. Nets, a subsidiary of the Italian payment giant Nexi Group, acquired the Berlin-based FinTech startup Orderbird. in 2018, Nets already provided an early investment of around 20 percent. In late 2021, Nets increased its stake and received…
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Swiss Neo-Bank Radicant Continues With Banking License
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Radicant, the Swiss-based green FinTech subsidiary of Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank (BLKB) has received its banking license from FINMA and is preparing to enter the market. Radicant does not see itself as another neo-bank in confusing garb. The FinTech company focuses on sustainability and wants to change banking and redefine the traditional…
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The Silent German €100 Million Deal Of InsureTech Clark
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At the end of 2021, Frankfurt-based fintech Clark announced the acquisition of finanzen Group, the operator of the leading German financial website Finanzen.de. The Allianz subsidiary had specialized in the business of contacts from potential insurance customers – so-called leads. After the deal, Clark declared itself “a unicorn and one…
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Banx Launches Platform To Unite Crypto And Cash
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Banxe (PC42 profile) is a crypto platform that lets you pay, receive, invest, alternate, and switch with each coin and crypto, seamlessly and sincerely switching among the two no matter area or currency. Banxe is a trading style of the FCA-regulated TomPay Ltd. Anthony DiMarsico, CEO of Banxe, said: “We…
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Comdirect launches social trading app “hi!stocks”
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To appeal to a younger audience, Comdirect has developed the social trading app Hi!stocks. Comdirect‘s new trading app has been in the app stores since Tuesday. With “hi!stocks”, the direct bank wants to reach a younger audience – it is a so-called social trading app (Finance Forward reported). Users can…