Japan’s Government Warns on Cryptocurrency Trading After Coincheck Hack
Japanese authorities are investigating all cryptocurrency trading after last week's hacking of cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck. According to a Reuters report, ...
Month: January 2018
French Startup Spendesk Raises $9.9M for its Corporate Expense Platform
Paris-based startup Spendesk has raised $9.9 million to expand its corporate expense reporting platform across Europe, it was announced today. ...
South Africa Reserve Bank Launches Fintech Unit
South Africa's Reserve Bank today unveiled a fintech unit. The unit, which consists of only three members right now, will ...
Western Union Opens Tech Center In India
Cross-border payments company Western Union is opening a technology center in India, which will focus on biometrics, machine learning, and ...
Hyperledger Releases its Second Blockchain Platform, Sawtooth
EXCLUSIVE— Collaborative blockchain company Hyperledger has made Hyperledger Sawtooth, the second of its active projects to reach a 1.0 version ...
Credit Karma Wants to Be in Top 3 Tax Filing Companies
EXCLUSIVE – It’s Credit Karma’s second tax season as a tax prep/filing company, and already about 3 million people have ...
U.K. Fintech CreditLadder Launches Open Banking Service
U.K.-based CreditLadder, an online platform that enables tenants to help build credit score, launched an open banking service today, making ...
Banks, Businesses Aren’t Ready for GDPR — But Consumers Are
EXCLUSIVE— While PSD2 was the subject of extensive focus for European banks, businesses, tech firms, and fintechs, these institutions may ...
UnionPay Teams Up With Huawei to Expand Huawei Pay WorldWide
UnionPay International, a subsidiary of China UnionPay, has partnered with telecoms company Huawei Technologies to launch mobile payment service Huawei ...
ING Buys Majority Stake in Payments Group, Payvision
ING Bank will acquire a majority stake in Amsterdam-based Payvision, a payments processor company that powers more than 80 separate ...
