Irish InsurTech Blink launches new business interruption solution
Creating a business interruption solution opens up a significant new market for Blink and will make it quicker and easier for insurers to support firms with financial assistance.
The Carlyle Group to acquire Calastone
Calastone announce that The Carlyle Group has reached an agreement to acquire a majority stake in the business from its current shareholders.
Irish fintech sector sees record investment during pandemic
Although many sectors saw investment slow due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Irish fintech industry saw a record period of activity.
Vietnam second among ASEAN members in attracting fintech funding
Vietnam’s fintech firms secured $410 million, or 36 percent of the global capital pouring into Southeast Asia between January and September, behind Singapore. The country’s share of regional venture capital funding devoted to fintech soared from just 0.4 percent in 2018, according to a report prepared by the United Overseas Bank (UOB), PwC and the Singapore Fintech Association (SFA). Singapore remained the top destination for regional fintech investment, with 51 percent, down from 53 percent in 2018, with Indonesia in third place with 12 percent, down from 37 percent last year. By the end of the third quarter this year, ASEAN had received $1.14 billion in funding for fintech firms, […]
HSBC to build the bank of the future by giving its 30,000 devs access to APIs
HSBC is building a new digital banking platform, with the organisation looking to power the bank of the future through the use of APIs. Turning to Salesforce-owned MuleSoft, HSBC chief architect of digital technologies Prakash Sethuraman said the bank is taking advantage of open banking to develop new, “connected” experiences for its more than 38 million customers worldwide, using this as the foundation for the bank of the future. Speaking at Dreamforce 2019 in San Francisco last week, Sethuraman said HSBC is wanting to reach out beyond the branch, the contact centre, and other more traditional channels to create those connected experiences. “When we work with our partners and they […]
MiddleGame Ventures announces $165m FinTech-focused fund
MiddleGame Ventures (MGV), a fintech-focused investment firm, announced today that it had raised a new fund targeting post-seed, series A and series B lead investments in Europe and North America. MGV’s Venture Fund I has achieved its first close, with a final close target size of $165MM. It will invest in and partner with B2B and B2B2C startups driving the transformation of financial services from analog to digital and from centralized to decentralized, with an emphasis on middleware and back office solutions. Its remit extends to enabling technologies such as RegTech, Digital Identities, “FinData” and crypto-enabled infrastructure across banking, asset management, insurance, payments, and capital markets. The Luxembourg Future Fund […]
India’s Paytm raises $1bn with SoftBank’s contribution
Indian financial technology giant Paytm has raised $1 billion in a new financing round led by U.S.-based global asset manager T Rowe Price and backed by existing investors Ant Financial, SoftBank Vision Fund and Discovery Capital, the company said Monday. The Series G funding round values Paytm at about $16 billion and comes as the company is set to start preparations for an initial public offering in the next 22-24 months. Ant Financial contributed $400 million, while SoftBank Vision Fund invested $200 million in the latest round. The financing sees Paytm outstripping fellow high-profile Asian startups such as Grab and Gojek in valuation and boosts the firm’s war chest to […]
China is on a mission to regulate Fintech
China has now publicly voiced its desire to be the leading country in financial technology development and adoption. The president of the republic openly called for the promotion of blockchain technology across the nation and proceeded to block all the negative opinions about blockchain throughout the Chinese cyberspace. But now the Chinese government and the People’s Bank of China are taking it to the next level. The vice president of PBoC Yifei Fan spoke at the meeting of the National Technical Committee this week and voice the plan to better regulate new technologies that are applied to the financial industry. China has set out to create 17 standards for Fintech […]
