Betterment moves into crypto through Makara acquisition
Robo-advisor Betterment, which last year joined the unicorn club, offers Americans automated investing and retirement solutions alongside everyday services for...
Qori launches multi-channel pay by bank and pay by crypto tech
The pay by bank and pay by crypto technology is available to hundreds of thousand merchants through partnerships with European...
Railsr hires former Mastercard chairman Rick Haythornthwaite
Haythornthwaite stepped down from Mastercard in 2020 and is currently chairman of Ocada Group and the AA. Other top posts...
Lightyear expands across Europe on $25 million fund raise
The Series A equity round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners alongside Richard Branson's Virgin Group. The company’s seed investors,...
BaaS startup BKN301 raises EUR15m
The round, which values BKN301 at EUR63 million, was joined by PayU, Azimut Digitech Fund, CRIF, and GNB Swiss Investments....
Bucking trend, some crypto firms go on hiring spree
With Bitcoin tanking and the industry hunkering down for a crypto winter, in the last few days Coinbase has set...
EC competition concerns sees Pivo pull out of merger with Vipps and MobilePay
Last year, MobilePay, Pivo and Vipps - which are all bank owned - set out plans to join forces to...
35 startups tapped for Tech Nation’s diversity-driven Libra 2.0 programme
63% of the companies joining have one female founder and 40% of the companies are not based in London. The...
PPRO adds BNPL from Zip to payment mix
Zip, which includes Zip Pay and Zip Money, becomes the first Australian BNPL method to be added to PPRO’s digital...
European Parliament votes down bitcoin mining ban
The parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee voted 30-23 to keep a provision out of the proposed Markets in Crypto...
