Ecobank: finalists of Fintech Challenge announced
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Banking, FinTech StartUps
Ecobank, the leading independent pan-African banking group, has announced the finalists for the 2nd edition of the annual Ecobank Fintech Challenge, a competition for Africa-focused technology start-ups. The list includes eleven (11) fintech start-ups from across the continent and beyond. An Innovation Fair & Awards ceremony will honour the start-ups on August 30, 2018 at the global headquarters of Ecobank in Lomé, Togo.
B-Hive organises Digital Week
- 6 years 6 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Located in the heart of Europe, Belgium will host three key events - B-Hive Fintech Hackathon, Digital Finance Europe and SuperNova - tackling the challenges faced by the financial sector today
Visa Selects 12 Finalists for Sub-Saharan Startup Contest
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Payments, FinTech StartUps
Leading fintech companies from the dynamic Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) technology startup community have made it to the finals of Visa’s Everywhere Initiative, a global innovation program that tasks start-ups to solve commerce challenges of tomorrow, further enhance their own product propositions and provide visionary solutions for Visa’s vast network of partners.
New era for Startupbootcamp FinTech in Latin America: added a new investment partner and picked its second cohort
- 6 years 6 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
The leading global acceleration program focused in FinTech picked the 10 startups that will make up its second generation in Latin America. During the selection event, Startupbootcamp FinTech announced the recent addition of Latinia as its second investment partner.
YUKKA Lab recognised by Kickstart Accelerator 2018
- 6 years 6 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Out of 900 applications from 64 countries 60 startups were invited to pitch for Swiss Kickstart Accelerator.
How InsurTech is Breaking Boundaries and Moving Beyond Insurance
- 6 years 6 months ago
- FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations, Insurance
New research from Startupbootcamp InsurTech (SBC) and PwC launches today, exploring how InsurTech has rapidly evolved over the past three years since Startupbootcamp InsurTech was established. The report shows that the narrative surrounding InsurTech has shifted and both parties are now working together to take the insurance industry into the next decade.
Elevator Lab: 407 applications for the second batch of RBI’s fintech partnership program
- 6 years 7 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI) has received 407 applications for the second batch of “Elevator Lab”, RBI’s fintech partnership program. This means an increase of more than twenty per cent compared to the first batch when 336 fintech start-ups used the opportunity for a potential long-term cooperation with the RBI Group and its 16.6 million customers in Austria and the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region.
myGini launches loyalty app for European financial service organizations
- 6 years 8 months ago
- Payments, FinTech StartUps
Today myGini Inc., a San Francisco-based provider of leading-edge software solutions for the fintech sector, has launched its state-of-the-art consumer loyalty engine into the European financial services market. myGini is the first integrated payments and shopping app to provide financial institutions with their own easily installed reward program triggered by MasterCard and Visa card transactions. It allows banks to increase customer loyalty... more
Mastercard launches Accelerate: continuing to unleash the potential of Fintechs
- 6 years 8 months ago
- Payments, FinTech StartUps
Mastercard today announces the creation of Accelerate, a new programme to drive growth at scale for the fast-evolving FinTech industry. The initiative is designed to support the ambitions of players in the FinTech sector through tailored support arrangements including access to insight, tools, technology and investment to support innovation. Designed to operate alongside the successful Start Path programme, Accelerate broadens and deepens... more
Mastercard Start Path Program Helps More Startups Thrive
- 6 years 8 months ago
- Payments, FinTech StartUps
Startups from around the world are developing niche technologies that are making life simpler and more convenient, but they struggle to find the right partners that can take their solutions farther.
MFS Africa becomes first African FinTech funded by a China-based VC in $4.5M Series B round led by LUN Partners Group
- 6 years 9 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
MFS Africa, a leading Pan-African FinTech company, today announced a $4.5m Series B funding round led by LUN PartnersGroup, a China-based global investment management group. Goodwell Investments, an Amsterdam based investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth, as well as several angel investors completed the round.
Scale-Ups.eu calls all European tech scale-ups to submit their profile to pitch at SuperNova
- 6 years 9 months ago
- FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations, Infrastructure
Scale-Ups.eu, a spinoff of the European collaboration innovation platform B-Hive, is organizing SuperNova together with Flanders DC on September 27-30. This four-day event aims to bring the most promising scale-ups, outstanding tech companies, and thought leaders from all around the globe in Antwerp to talk, pitch, and showcase.
Da Vinci Capital Invests in Russia's Global Fintech Solutions
- 6 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations
Global Fintech Solutions (GFS), a fintech platform aimed at transferring leading global technologies into emerging markets, raised a new funding round from several funds under the management of Da Vinci Capital and from its the portfolio group, ITI Funds. Investment group Prytek was a co-investor in the investment round.
FINTECH STARTUP ZOTO WITNESSES MASSIVE GROWTH IN USER BASE AND ORDER VOLUMES IN 2017-18
- 6 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Zoto, a product of Hedonmark Management Services Limited and Nigeria’s fastest growing payment solution, today announced that its transacting user base and order volume grew by 56% and 200% respectively in the last financial year and it is set to replicate an even higher growth curve in the financial year 2018 -19.
Viva Network To Disrupt Mortgage Industry Through Blockchain Platform
- 6 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Viva Network Holdings Limited (“Viva Network” or “Viva”), a Bermuda-based fintech startup, has today announced its plan to launch a comprehensive borderless mortgage products platform.
