Category: People
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Thomas Landis Joins Swiss Sonect As Chief Operations Officer!
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Thomas Landis has been appointed as the operational head of Swiss FinTech Sonect. Landis is considered a pioneer of the Swiss fintech scene. He was involved in the first local payment apps Paymit and Twint, as head of innovation and also headed F10, the incubator of stock exchange operator SIX.…
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MicroStrategy Holds On To Its “Bitcoin Long” Strategy
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Nasdaq-listed US Software firm MicroStrategy, like Elon Musk’s Tesla, is one of the major Bitcoin players within the Bitcoin segment. The company has a market cap of some $2.7 billion. The company has purchased over 129,000 bitcoins since August 2020. The company, co-founded by CEO Michael Saylor in 1989, first…
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FCA-Regulated EMI Pixxles Appoints Salma Kamaly As Director!
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FCA-regulated e-Money Institute (EMI) has appointed Salma Kamaly as an additional director, effective May 23, 2022. Kamaly, born in September 1986, is reportedly a compliance expert who also serves as the sole director of JS Compliance Consultants Limited (JSCC). The company operates a rather strange website with the domain www.jslc.co.uk…
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Ukrainian Fintechs Will Change The World After The War!
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Keynote speeches by Estonia’s Finance Minister Keit Pentus-Rosimannus and Rostyslav Dyuk, Chairman of the Ukrainian Association of Fintech and Innovation Companies, were among the highlights of the first Global Government Fintech Lab. The Global Government FinTech Lab (www.globalgovernmentforum.com), which brought together senior officials to explore the opportunities created by fintech,…
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Jamaica: First Global Bank CEO Mariame McIntosh Robinson Leaves For Fintech Job!
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Mariame McIntosh Robinson is leaving First Global Bank (FGB) next month to take a new position as managing director of a fintech company. The job she is taking up is with an undisclosed US fintech, but she will continue to operate from Jamaica. Since 2016, she has served as President…
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GoFundMe Shuts Down Fake $1m Fundraiser For Amber Heard
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Many of us have been following the trial between Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard. It was streamed live from the courtroom in Virginia and was more reality TV and soap opera than trial. Amber Heard lost and now has to pay $8.35 million to Johnny Depp which she…
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Israeli PayTech BridgerPay Appoint Laoura Salveta As Head Of Marketing
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The Israeli PayTech BridgerPay (PC42 profile) has announced Laoura Salveta engagement as Head of Marketing. According to her LinkedIn profile, Laoura comes from the Forex field and therefore has experience in financial marketing. Most recently, she served as Chief Marketing Officer and Director at 120advertising.com in Cyprus.
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Former SWIFT CEO Lazaro Campos Becomes Independent PPRO Chairman
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The FCA-regulated digital payments processor PPRO has appointed former SWIFT CEO Lázaro Campos as its first independent chairman to strengthen its board and governance in the next phase of the company’s growth trajectory. According to his LinkedIn profile, Campos is also a Non-Executive Director at the UK-based FinTech unicorn Starling…
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Benjamin Hoskins becomes new CTO at buy-now-pay-later fintech Billie
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Billie is a buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) payments provider targeting business customers. Now the company appointed Benjamin Hoskins as its new CTO. The personnel is to complement the management to implement the upcoming internationalization. Hoskins joins Billie (PC42 profile) from online home goods retailer Wayfair as its new CTO. Before that, the…