IBM Teams Up With NUS to Promote Fintech & Blockchain Training in Singapore

The National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Computing and the IBM Center for Blockchain Innovation (ICBI), a part of IBM Research, announced on Tuesday they are collaborating to develop a mo...

GLS Crowdfunds €300,000 for Wind Energy

The GLS crowd, the first crowdfund platform initiated by a bank, has successfully funded their second project since their platform launch on 1 February 2017. Dachsbach UG & Co. KG, a Bavarian wind...

Chair of Commons Treasury Select Committee MP Andrew Tyrie Will Stand Down at June’s Election

Chichester Member of Parliament Andrew Tyrie has announced he will not stand for election this coming June. Tyrie has been the highly influential Chair of the Commons Treasury Select Committee since 2...

OurCrowd Leads $4.6 Million Funding in MPIRICA Health

  MPIRICA Health Inc., a Bellevue, Washington-based healthcare quality transparency startup, has received $4.6 million in funding led by OurCrowd, a global equity crowdfunding platform, with part...

SmartBiz Loans Adds Five Star Bank to Network

SmartBiz Loans, an online SBA marketplace and bank-enabling technology, announced on Tuesday it added Five Star Bank to its technology network. The company stated its technology platform would match...

LendKey Releases Student Loan Refinance Report: Delinquency Rates Dropped

LendKey, a leading lending-as-a-service provider for banks and credit unions, released its Student Loan Refinance Report, its second in a series that highlights borrower trends across banks and credit...

National Bank of Canada Invests in Myanmar Fintech Company ONGO

Last week, ONGO, a mobile payments platform based in Myanmar, announced a strategic partnership with the National Bank of Canada (NBC). According to ONGO’s announcement, NBC acquired a 22% stake...

India Mobile Payment Buzz: Potential MobiKwik FreeCharge Merger

According to multiple new sources, MobiKwik and FreeCharge are considering an all-stock deal merger. Post-merger, the platform also anticipates an additional $200 million (nearly Rs 1,300 crore) in...

European Commission to Implement Blockchain and DLT Pilot Project

In the context of the Horizontal Taskforce on Fintech and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT), the European Parliament has mandated the European Commission to implement a pilot project in order to b...

Woomentum Coming to Vietnam

The Singapore based platform, Woomentum, has announced its plan to expand into the emerging market in Vietnam. Woomentum, founded by Mouna Aouri, is a crowdfunding site that focuses on female entrepre...

BBD-FNB Partners with Crowdsurfer and Academy of Internet Finance on Global Crowdfunding Index

BBD-FNB Ltd., a China based big data provider has created a “Global Crowdfunding Index” in partnership with Crowdsurfer and the Academy of Internet Finance (AIF) at Zhejiang University an...

Wikipedia founder to fight fake news with new Wikitribune site

Crowdfunded online publication from Jimmy Wales will pair paid journalists with army of volunteer contributorsJimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, is launching a new online publication which will...

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