Latin America's EBANX, a payments Fintech with an international presence, has introduced a brand new positioning and design.
Reusable identities will be vital tools that support identity verification, but how they will work exactly is yet to be determined.
Antony Jenkins, former CEO of Barclays and now head of 10x Future Technologies, writes in the FT that technology is...
Seashell, a startup building an investment app to offer high yields, has raised $6 million in a seed funding round.
Roofstock provides a marketplace for buyers and sellers of rental properties; the company is up to 35 employees and has now raised their Series C led by Canvas Ventures; TechCrunch published a short Q&A with their CEO Gary Beasley; while the company doesn’t disclose actual number of properties, they have facilitated “hundreds of millions of dollars in value this year alone” and now operate in 15 markets across the US. Source
Brazil, the largest country in Latin America, is moving closer to regulating cryptocurrencies with its own version of a Bitcoin law.
Today, SoFi announced a new index fund focused on the gig economy; GIGE trades on the Nasdaq and is actively...
The statement provides considerations for main street investors and market professionals; investors should be aware of the risks of these types of investments which have less investor protections compared to the traditional securities market; to date no coin offerings have been registered by the SEC; the statement notes, “A change in the structure of a securities offering does not change the fundamental point that when a security is being offered, our securities laws must be followed.” Source
N26 Founder and CEO Valentin Stalf told the Money 20/20 audience they plan to launch in the US by mid 2018; “We’ve looked at the products in the U.S. and we figured out that most of the banking products in the U.S. are even worse than in Europe,” Stalk told TechCrunch; their plans are to launch a debit card with a checking account and use a bank partner, similar to what they have done in Europe. Source.
Brazilian digital banking giant Nubank has teamed up with a roster of retailers to add an e-commerce section to its...