Bottlepay has been granted registration as a Cryptoasset Business from the United Kingdom’s FCA. Bottlepay is the first Lightning Network payments company.
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John has been in communications since graduating from Creative Communications at Red River College Polytechnic in Winnipeg in 1992. He launched one of Canada's first digital-only local news sites called Winnipeg First in 2007, which led to digital editor postings with the Winnipeg Free Press and Edmonton Journal. In 2012 he joined Bankless Times as managing editor, later becoming president and CEO. He and the Bankless Media co-founders completed a sale and exit in August 2021.
This investment is the latest in a series of investments made by UBS Next in areas ranging from distributed ledger technology to digital wealth advisory.
Berlin's Solarisbank says financial services industry will be facing key challenges in 2022 such as combatting fraud, improving customer experience.
Qonto announced it has raised €486 million in Series D funding, bringing Qonto’s valuation to €4.4 billion.
Scotland has seen significant growth in its FinTech ecosystem, reflecte
One Zero has secured regulatory approval for a full banking licence from the Bank of Israel, the first bank to be set up in 43 years.
Revolut has operationalised its Lithuania-based European specialised banking license in 10 European markets.
In the latest fintech megaround, Brex has confirmed that it has raised $300 million in a Series D-2 round that ups its valuation to $12.3 billion. TechCrunch in October was the first to report that Brex was raising the capital and had achieved decacorn status. Greenoaks Capital and TCV co-led the financing, which brings the...
Regulators and politicians have been pressuring banks on the fees. Other firms such as JPMorgan and Ally Financial have already announced changes.
Novo, a Miami, Florida-based small business banking platform, raised $90m in Series B funding at a $700m valuation