Partnerships 

NEAR Wallet Users Soar to 20+ Million Thanks to Groundbreaking Partnership with SWEAT Economy

Cinchy, the pioneer of dataware technology and leader of data liberation, today announced a $14.5 million USD Series B financing round led by Forgepoint Capital. Forgepoint Managing Director Leo Casusol will join Cinchy’s Board of Directors, while Reynaldo Kirton comes on board as an advisor.

NEAR Foundation, the Swiss non-profit supporting the governance and development of the NEAR protocol, today announced a tenfold increase in the number of NEAR Wallet users since the start of this year, rising from 2 million to over 20 million.

Yabx, a FinTech venture headquartered in the Netherlands, today announced its foray into Nigerian markets with a mission to democratize credit across the country with its digital lending offerings.

iLex, a Platform-as-a-Service fintech that designs, builds and operates digital market infrastructures for the US$6 trillion syndicated loans and private credit market, announced today that it has US$10 billion of assets listed on its platform.

Bakkt Holdings, Inc., a digital asset platform that unlocks crypto and drives loyalty to create delightful, connected experiences for a broad range of clients, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Apex Crypto, LLC from Apex Fintech Solutions, Inc. This acquisition is expected to significantly bolster Bakkt’s cryptocurrency product offering and expand its footprint into additional client verticals including fintechs, trading app platforms, and neo-banks.

8 startups from 6 countries from over 100 applications were selected for the inaugural Climate Fintech incubation program across the Nordics & Baltics by F10, the leading innovation ecosystem powering the future of finance.

India’s favourite checkout partner Simpl brings a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to Experience Dubai Like Never Before. Visitors to the Zomaland’22 carnival to be held in Pune now stand a chance to win an all-expenses paid trip to Dubai and stay at the Burj Khalifa. Simpl is the preferred payments partner for Zomaland’22 from Zomato powering India’s grandest food and entertainment carnival in Pune on November 5 & 6 at Mahalakshmi Lawns.

impak Ratings, a leading impact analysis and ratings fintech, acquires 100% of London-based Exerica’s assets to expand its AI capabilities. Exerica’s entire team will be integrated into impak’s production processes along with its proprietary AI data extraction and contextualization software. This will increase production capacity for impak’s high-quality impact assessments, including its entry-level SDG Alignment and SFDR products, now available as Freemium offerings.