Orange is a large French telecom company and recently announced plans to launch their own bank; the company is hoping to capitalize on the movement to online banking and is the first telecom company to launch a bank; they are targeting 2 million clients in ten years which would represent 25% of the online banking market; 25,000 of their current customers have expressed interest in the new offering (out of its 21 million mobile clients). Source
The platforms that have promoted Bitcoin and other new currencies have a lot to answer for.
Preparing for the upcoming explosion in pay later credit data sharing.
Ivella, a Santa Monica-based startup, wants to build banking products for couples to take away some of these tensions. Led by CEO and co-founder Kahlil Lalji, the startup is launching with a split account product that just raised $3.5 million in funding from Anthemis, Financial Venture Studio and...
LendIt Fintech is delighted to announce that we have secured new dates for LendIt Fintech USA 2020. Our flagship event...
Payable announced a new $6-million seed round on Tuesday.
Argentina's market regulator launched a fintech innovation hub, a likely first step toward issuing cryptocurrency and fintech regulation.
In a speech yesterday Fabio Panetta, a board member of the ECB, blasted crypto as increasing the risk of financial instability....
Event follows Ethereal Summit hosted by ConsenSys earlier this year; will include panels, live music, discussions and workshops about blockchain; the event will focus on making blockchain technology easier to understand and is being marketed as a culture focused event rather than a technical one; Cointelegraph provides a list of featured speakers. Source
Insurtech startup Lemonade announced “We’re opening up the Lemonade platform to the world!” says Shai Wininger, co-founder of Lemonade; the new open API will allow Lemonade to be seamlessly integrated with commerce websites, financial advisor apps, property management companies, payment software processors, IoT [internet of things] platforms and more as Banking Technology reports. Source.