LiquidityBook establishes integration with ICE ETF Hub to streamline ETF primary market and portfolio management processes LeapRate

June 28, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

LiquidityBook establishes integration with ICE ETF Hub to streamline ETF primary market and portfolio management processes

Peter Borstelmann, President of ICE Bonds, said: By modernizing and bringing new efficiencies to the creation and redemption process, the ICE ETF Hub offers a powerful platform for accessing the ETF primary market. Connecting with LiquidityBook’s LBX OEMS gives institutional investors seamless access to our workflow over a highly scalable trade management platform, and it…

May 09, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

United Fintech becomes majority owner of German RegTech firm TTMzero

Joining United Fintech In a separate transaction, the two German entrepreneurs, who founded TTMzero, Simon Ullrich and Soenke Blunck, have used part of their share sale proceeds to invest in United Fintech on a group level. United Fintech CEO Christian Frahm commented: For the past few years, the trend has been that financial institutions are…

March 27, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Equals Group acquires global payments services provider Oonex

Equals stated: Oonex’s ability to issue local IBANs within the Eurozone will significantly expand the addressable market for the Group’s platform and products and fits with Equals’ strategy to enable its customers to ‘Collect globally, deliver locally, control centrally.’ The latest acquisition complements the completion of Roqqett Limited’s acquisition, earlier in January. The terms of…

March 03, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

OANDA teams up with KAIKO for pricing service and digital assets offering

Ambre Soubiran, CEO of Kaiko, added: We are glad to partner with OANDA to bring IFRS and US GAAP-compliant exchange rates to Kaiko’s data services. Auditable FX rates are essential to a number of financial activities, and it was important for us to link Kaiko’s digital assets market data to a reliable FX data provider…

February 17, 2023 BY Alan Sayer

Fintech Firm Payoneer Receives UK FCA E-Money License

The company already holds licenses in countries such as Japan, the United States, Europe, Australia, Hong Kong, and India. Payments processed via Payoneer are made through a compliant, tightly audited, and secure payments platform supervised by financial regulators worldwide, the company states. The company said the new FCA authorisation demonstrates its commitment to the UK…

January 24, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Plum launches its personal finance app in five European countries

According to Plum estimates, the app has 1.5 million users across Europe and has handled more than €1.79 billion. Victor Trokoudes, co-founder and CEO of Plum, commented: We’re delighted to bring Plum to five new European countries and help people manage their finances there. This is a challenging economic period as people are experiencing levels…

January 09, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Equals completes acquisition of Roqqett

Under the terms of the deal, Equals had to make an initial £1.0 million cash payment, which as now been paid. This will be followed by three deferred payments one of up to £0.25 million in cash and two of £0.5 million, one in cash and the other in ordinary shares in Equals. According to…

November 28, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Equals acquires open banking payments platform Roqqett in a £2.25 million deal

The acquisition deal is strategic move for Equals, as the fintech firm currently does not have these two authorisations. Ian Strafford-Taylor, CEO of Equals, commented: The platform, underlying technology, and licences that we are acquiring fit well with our stated strategy of providing payments solutions to our B2B customer base. The ability to provide our…

August 15, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

James Hickman joins Cornerstone FS as CEO

Elliott Mannis, said: James brings a wealth of industry experience and excellent strategic and leadership skills to Cornerstone, and I am delighted that he will be our new Chief Executive Officer. He has impressed the Board with his clarity of vision, breadth of knowledge and his strong client-centric mindset. The Board believes he is a…

July 13, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Illuminate Financial announces investment from Citi

Sandeep Arora, Head of Digital and Chief Investment Officer of Citi's Institutional Clients Group, said: Citi has a strong track-record of partnering with FinTechs to build digital solutions for our clients and believe this strategic investment will provide earlier visibility into new technologies and complement our direct investing program. Mark Beeston, Founder and Managing Partner…

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