The Benzinga Global Fintech Awards – entries closing soon
The Benzinga Global Fintech Awards May 11, 2017 in New York, is the premier event in Fintech, celebrating financial innovation from around the world. The Benzinga Awards is a competition to showcase the companies with the most impressive technology, who are paving the future in financial services and capital markets! Applications are still open, so apply now before the March 17 deadline. At the event, you’ll get a first look at groundbreaking technology, innovative platforms, and the chance to network freely with top industry professionals. Over 550 FinTech CEOs, C-suite executives of financial institutions, VCs, press, and others attended the 2016 Benzinga Fintech Awards. 45 exclusive exhibitor spots on the show floor […]
LandlordInvest’s Innovative Finance ISA is now flexible
LandlordInvest, having recently launched the first residential mortgage-backed IFISA, has made its IFISA flexible. Flexible ISA means that an investor can replace, in whole or in part, cash the investor has withdrawn, without the replacement counting towards the investor’s subscription limit for a tax year. The flexible ISA was only introduced in the current year and offers savers the ability to move cash between all types of ISAs (cash, stocks & shares and the IFISA). LandlordInvest’s property-backed flexible IFISA lets savers invest up to £15,240 in the current tax year (rising to £20,000 in the next tax year) in peer-to-peer loans secured by residential mortgages, and with the ability to […]
Mundi Ventures invests 1.5 Million CHF in Qumram to fuel global growth
Qumram, a leading global RegTech firm, providing digital compliance and risk management solutions, has announced further investment of 1.5 million Swiss Francs, from the technology-focused venture capital firm, Mundi Ventures. Headquartered in Madrid, Mundi Ventures has operational presence in Barcelona, London and Seattle. In addition to providing due diligence support, Mundi Ventures will boost Qumram’s growth strategy by facilitating access to corporate executives, new markets, and new customers. Through this investment partnership, Qumram will gain access to the Mundi Club, a global network of more than 500 renowned Spanish business leaders, located in 41 cities worldwide, including board members of Havas, Kering, Merck, Bertelsmann and Nestle, as well as the […]
Qumram Voted ‘Most Innovative FinTech’ by Swiss Bankers and Wealth Managers
Qumram, a leading global RegTech firm providing digital compliance and risk management solutions, has been recognized as the ‘Most Innovative FinTech’ at the 4th Annual WealthBriefing Swiss Awards 2017. The awards ceremony, attended by more than 230 members of the Swiss private banking and wealth management community, took place on 9 February 2017. “Qumram drives innovation by removing compliance as a barrier, and leveraging big data collected for compliance to grow revenue,” said Stephen Harris, ClearView Financial Media’s CEO, and Publisher of WealthBriefing, who presented the award alongside Barclays Bank (Suisse) CEO James Buchanan-Michaelson. “These awards truly reflect excellence in wealth management,” said Harris. “The watchwords of the judging process […]
Swiss Fintech Temenos announces proposal to acquire ASX-listed Rubik
Temenos, the software specialist for banking and finance, today confirms that it has entered into a binding Scheme Implementation Deed to acquire Rubik Financial Limited, a leading software provider to the Financial Services sector in Australia, via a Scheme of Arrangement. Founded in 2007, Rubik is a leading Australia–based, Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) listed financial software company providing banking, wealth management and mortgage broking solutions, primarily in Australia, and also internationally across Asia and the Middle East. Rubik has more than 150 employees servicing 930 direct clients and 23,000 end-users in 12 countries. Temenos has a longstanding partnership with Rubik which dates back nearly 10 years. Rubik has successfully used […]
Ho Chi Minh based startup Remitano expands across the globe to make Bitcoin trading safer
Remitano, a Vietnamese platform that helps people trade bitcoin quickly and securely, has expanded its services across the English speaking world and also to China and Cambodia. Formerly only available in Asia, Remitano is making its platform available across the globe. The company is targeting an audience of bitcoin exchangers, investors, and those seeking remittance services, starting with Asian countries – including Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia as well as China. “Our new platform will help bring bitcoin to everyone, by means of preventing fraud and scamming among the bitcoin community,” explains CEO and co-founder Dung Huynh. “Bitcoin fraud is a problem that is deterring people from partaking in this […]
Fintech start-up PromisePay becomes Assembly Payments, signs key Gumtree deal
Well-backed Melbourne-based fintech start-up PromisePay has taken the bold move to change its name at the same time as announcing one of its most important deals to date, with eBay-owned online marketplace Gumtree. The company, which last year closed a $14 million Series A funding round with Australian tech VC fund rampersand, Westpac’s Reinventure, 99Designs co-founder Mark Harbottle and former Hitwise CEO Andrew Walsh, will now be known as Assembly Payments. PromisePay had already picked up a strong roster of more than 100 Australian and international clients including Airtasker, hipages, Flippa and Carsales.com.au for its online marketplace payments platform. It enables payments to be held in escrow, so a customer […]
Ignition Wealth announces goals-based investing
Ignition Wealth CEO Mark Fordree today announced a groundbreaking development as Ignition Wealth becomes the first Australian ‘robo-adviser’ to offer goals-based investing. Ignition Wealth has appointed SiResearch to provide adaptive asset allocation built around goals which have a specific objective and timeframe. Traditional risk assessment has focussed on the investor’s long-term goals, often focussing simply on retirement. The goals-based model acknowledges that investors’ goals may fall into several buckets including short term, medium term and legacy. “In reality an investor’s attitude to risk is influenced by what their goal is and the date by when they want to achieve it. The SiResearch goals-based investment model adds a specific objective and […]
