Today, leading enterprise-grade staking platform Kiln, announces the close of a $17 million funding round led by 1kx, with participation from IOSG, Crypto.com, Wintermute Ventures, KXVC, LBank, and further contributions from existing investors.

Pomelo raised a new investment round of US$ 40 million, consolidating leadership in payment technology in Latin America.

The round was led by Kaszek, the largest venture capital fund in Latin America, and also included the participation of important international investors: Monashees, Index Ventures, Insight Partners, Endeavor Catalyst, S32, TQ Ventures, and Alter Global.

WealthArc, a Swiss-born global wealth data management solution provider, has partnered with ZeroLink, a pioneering company in neurosymbolic KGQA technology, to develop WealthArc AI & Analytics – a cutting-edge machine learning-powered “Chat with your data” service tailored for the wealth management space.

VOXI by Vodafone has expanded its partnership with Moneyhub, the award-winning top global fintech, to offer customers 12 months of free access to its financial wellness app. 

With every holiday season, it becomes increasingly noticeable how spending trends are changing to become more digital. Such is the compulsion to buy online that in-store foot traffic, even under the twinkling festive lights, is no longer such a barometer of success.  

FinTech Wales, the independent members association and champion of the Fintech and Financial Services industry in Wales, has welcomed Starling Bank as the latest organization to become a Partner to empower Wales as a globally recognized hub of fintech excellence.

World-leading biometrics company Fingerprint Cards AB (Fingerprints™) today announces the launch of Smart´Nroll, a simple and reusable enrollment device for biometric payment cards. Smart´Nroll enables end-users to easily and securely register their fingerprints on their payment card, in under a minute and at their own convenience, anywhere in the world.

Billink, the Netherlands-based Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) solution trusted by 3 million shoppers, has raised €29.5 million from the German Varengold Bank. The payment provider will use the funding to expand its offering to the top 50 largest Benelux web shops, enter the German market, and further fuel its ambitions to make buying online fairer, for both consumers and web shops, by bringing the same level of assurance consumers have in offline transactions online.