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Canadian Fintech Investment Drops by More than Half According to a KPMG Report

2 years 9 months ago
FinTech StartUps

After a record-breaking year in 2021, investment in Canadian fintech dropped by more than 50 per cent in the first six months of 2022, mirroring a broader decline in the technology sector, according to KPMG’s Pulse of Fintech H1’22 Global report.

Genesis Global Names Chief Human Resources Officer

2 years 9 months ago
People Moves

Genesis Global, the low-code application development platform purpose-built for financial markets organizations, today announced Marina Kilcline as Chief Human Resources Officer. Kilcline reports to CEO, Stephen Murphy.

Fireblocks Surpasses $100 Million ARR Milestone, Cementing Its Status as SaaS Centaur

2 years 9 months ago
Infrastructure

Fireblocks, an easy-to-use platform to create innovative products on the blockchain and manage day-to-day crypto operations, announced today that its 2022 Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) has surpassed $100 million just four years after the company’s inception and three years since Fireblocks’ first product went into the market. This achievement places Fireblocks among a rare subset of SaaS unicorns — including Slack and Twilio — that have reached...

PXP Financial Announce DisputeHelp Partnership Ahead of Mastercard Mandate

2 years 9 months ago
Payments

PXP Financial, the expert in global acquiring, payment, fraud and data analysis services, today announces a partnership with DisputeHelp to provide its merchant portfolio with dispute management solutions.

Plum to Offer Stock Investment and Debit Cards in Europe

2 years 9 months ago
P-Cards

Plum, the European smart money app, is launching stock investing and a debit card for its customers in France, Belgium, Spain and Ireland. The app, which uses the latest technology to help users save effortlessly, now allows customers to diversify and grow their money over the long term with its new stock investing service.

Energy Trading Week

2 years 9 months ago
Trading Systems

In the countdown to Energy Trading Week - taking place on 28-29 September at County Hall in London, Ben Hillary, the Managing Director at Commodities People has sat down with Doug Wood, Chair of the Gas Committee at European Federation of Energy Traders (

Objectway Appoints Hassan Suffyan as Managing Director for the UK Region

2 years 9 months ago
People Moves

Objectway, a global top 100 banking, wealth & asset management software provider, has announced the appointment of Hassan Suffyan as Managing Director of Objectway for the UK region.

NEAR Anchors New $100M VC Fund and Lab Focused on Web3’s Evolution of Culture, Media and Entertainment

2 years 9 months ago
Investment

NEAR Foundation, the Swiss non-profit that supports the governance and development of the NEAR protocol, has announced a strategic partnership with Caerus Ventures to launch a $100m venture capital fund and venture lab. The fund will leverage the opportunities of Web3 as it reimagines culture and entertainment, from how it is financed, produced and distributed to how it’s consumed, owned and monetized.

Banks Won’t Lend to Us, Say More than a Quarter of UK’s Businesses

2 years 9 months ago
Lending

New research exposes the difficulties businesses face accessing finance from mainstream lenders and how alternative solutions can plug the gap. More than a quarter (26%) of business leaders surveyed have had difficulties accessing finance from main banks, over a third (38%) say that banks don’t understand their business needs and two in five (41%) think banks’ lending policies haven’t kept pace with modern business needs.

CyberloQ Launches Unique Proprietary MFA Technology in Collaboration with Banking Orchestration Platform, Pannovate

2 years 9 months ago
Cybersecurity

CyberloQ Technologies, Inc., a cyber-security technology company, is pleased to announce a strategic collaboration for its proprietary MFA technology with Pannovate’s Banking Orchestration Platform.

PATRONAS Financial Systems Collaborates with Temenos Multifonds

2 years 9 months ago
Fund Management

Temenos today announces the collaboration between Temenos Multifonds and PATRONAS Financial Systems, a leading provider of advanced software for the European investment industry.

Asset Tokenization Projected to Grow 50x into US$16 Trillion Opportunity by 2030: BCG, ADDX Report

2 years 9 months ago
Cryptocurrencies

A newly-published report by global consulting firm BCG and ADDX, the digital exchange for private markets, forecasts that asset tokenization will expand into a US$16.1 trillion business opportunity by 2030. This growth comes as the crypto winter is prompting capital to focus on more viable blockchain use cases.

First In-store Open Banking Payments for Automotive Sector Launched by Vyne and Pendragon

2 years 9 months ago
Open Banking

Vyne, the specialist account-to-account payments platform, today announces that in a global first, leading automotive retailer Pendragon PLC will offer its account-to-account payment method as the first and preferred payment method both in-dealership and in the future online.