NFT Trading Activity Surged by 940% YoY, with the Number of Active Wallets Jumping to 179,000 in October
- 4 years 9 months ago
- Trading Systems, Payments, Data
Over the past few months, non-fungible tokens or NFTs have skyrocketed in popularity, drawing more and more attention from investors. According to data presented by Block Arabia, NFT trading activity surged by 940% YoY, with the number of active wallets reaching 179,000 last week.
Hamilton Investment Management to Take Part in Digital Assets Week, London, 18-22 October
- 4 years 9 months ago
- Asset Management, Investment Management
William Je Founder & CEO, Hamilton Investment Management Ltd will be taking part in Digital Assets Week in London on the 21 October.
Izola Bank Selects HPD Lendscape to Transform Bank’s Factoring Technology
- 4 years 9 months ago
- Lending, Banking, Security
Izola Bank, a Maltese bank wholly owned by Belgium based Van Marcke Group, has chosen HPD Lendscape, a leading international secured-lending platform vendor, as the Bank’s new technology partner to replace the legacy working capital technology.
Contour Partners With GLEIF to Enable LEI Usage on Digital Trade Finance Network
- 4 years 9 months ago
- Online Trading, Trade Finance
Contour, the digital trade finance network, has partnered with the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) to enable the use of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) within its network and to financially support its members in obtaining their own LEI.
TISA Calls on Chancellor to Implement Consumer-friendly Policies in the 2021 Autumn Budget
- 4 years 9 months ago
- Digital Identity, Investment
The Investing and Saving Alliance (TISA), the cross-industry financial services membership body, is calling on the Chancellor ahead of the Autumn Budget, which is due on 27th October, to implement four concrete policies that will meaningfully improve consumer financial wellbeing. These are:
LXME wins the Financial Alliance for Women Hackathon
- 4 years 9 months ago
- Platform Technology, Financial
Bags the title of ‘The Female Economy FinTech of the Year’ LXME – India’s first financial platform for women ,won the title ‘The Female Economy Fintech of the Year’ at the Financial Alliance for Women Hackathon. This serves as a global recognition for the start-up that focuses on empowering women with financial freedom.
ESET’s Intelligent Solutions Updated for Greater Online Protection
- 4 years 9 months ago
- Cryptocurrencies, Cybersecurity, Data Protection
Heading into the festive season, it is more important than ever to ensure that computer and smartphone users are protected from increases in brute force attacks, instances of banking malware, and cryptocurrency threats.
Tech Tipping Point
- 4 years 9 months ago
- Financial, Technical
New technology often seems fantastic on paper yet has little impact in the life of the average person. A new tipping solution for fuel pump attendants, however, does both. When asked to fill up a fuel tank as motorists do in the movies, few South Africans would know what to do beyond pulling their tank lever from inside the car. Fuel station attendants are as much a part of our culture as braais and ‘howzit’.
ING to Offer Compensation to Dutch Retail Customers With Certain Consumer Credit Products
- 4 years 9 months ago
- Lending, Banking
ING announced today to offer a compensation to our Dutch retail customers with certain revolving consumer loans where the variable interest rate did not sufficiently follow market rates. With this step, ING reacts to a number of rulings by the Dutch Institute for Financial Disputes (Kifid) regarding similar products at other banks.
Payment 3.0 Era: HambitPay Upgrades Crypto Payment Interface and Launches Global Partnership Program
- 4 years 9 months ago
- Payments, e-Payments, Cryptocurrencies
Recently, HambitPay, a crypo payment platform from Singapore, announced the launch of its global partnership program.
Singapore-based IN Financial Technologies Announces the Launch of INFT
- 4 years 9 months ago
- RegTech, Financial, Technical
Singapore-based IN Financial Technologies launches INFT, a secured one-stop business solutions platform to start-ups and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) through filling the financing and banking gap, which allows entrepreneurs to focus on their core businesses.
Tesla Takes on Insurtechs With Usage-based Insurance Rollout in Texas
- 4 years 9 months ago
- Insurtech, Insurance
This marks the electric carmaker’s first usage-based insurance (UBI) product after launching a traditional insurance program in California two years ago. Here’s how it works: In Texas, Tesla’s premiums will be based on its proprietary safety score.
Money Minx Taps Salt Edge to Offer Customers an Enhanced Open Banking-enabled Investing Experience
- 4 years 9 months ago
- APIs, Open Banking, Investment, Cryptocurrencies, Logistics
Money Minx, a US-based net worth and investments tracking platform, joined forces with Salt Edge, open banking pioneer, to allow their users in the UK, Germany, and Switzerland to connect all bank accounts and monitor investments with ease – all in one place.
Finastra and AccessFintech Team Up to Bring Greater Data Transparency to Syndicated Loan Market
- 4 years 9 months ago
- Open Banking, Data, IT Innovations, Financial
Collaboration accelerates data availability for lenders via Fusion LenderComm and Synergy DataLake Finastra, the largest pure-play software vendor that serves the entire financial services industry, and AccessFintech, the data-sharing network optimizing workflow through collaboration, today announced that they have teamed up to bring greater data transparency, efficiency and industry-wide collaboration to the syndicated loan market.
Path Solutions Receives Record-breaking Number of Awards at IFN Service Providers Poll
- 4 years 9 months ago
- Payments, Islamic Finance
Several honors and awards were recently bestowed on Path Solutions including the latest Best Islamic Technology Provider 2021 award from Islamic Finance news (IFN). For the first time in history, an Islamic banking software provider receives the most awards ever for its contribution to the growth of the Islamic financial services industry.
