Tagged: anju patwardhan

February 9, 2021 @ 8:30 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Curve, a banking platform that consolidates multiple cards and accounts into one smart card and even smarter app, announced on Tuesday it has appointed Anju Patwardhan as a non-executive director to the Board. According to Curve, Anju brings decades of expertise and leadership in financial… Read More

August 2, 2018 @ 2:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

China based Fintech CreditEase has invested in Blast, a California based startup that is the mobile gamification space led by Acorns founder and Chairman, Walter Cruttenden. The investment was facilitated via CreditEast Fintech Investment Fund (CEFIF) – a US $1 billion fund. Other investors in… Read More

March 29, 2018 @ 8:50 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, CreditEase announced its venture fund, Credit FinTech Investment Fund (CEFIF) recently participated in the $70 million Series B investment round in market fintech company, Branch International. The fund reported that other investors of the funding round included International Finance Corporation (IFC), Andreessen Horowitz,… Read More

February 12, 2018 @ 2:09 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, CreditEase announced its fintech investment fund, along with next47 and BMW i Ventures, has invested in California automotive fintech company, Fair. This news comes after Fair announced the acquisition of Uber’s Xchange Leasing subsidiary’s leasing portfolio. According to CreditEase, Fair was launched in August… Read More

March 16, 2017 @ 12:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

CreditEase Fintech Investment Fund (CEFIF), a venture fund investing in growth-stage fintech companies in China and globally created by peer-to-peer lender CreditEase, announced at LendIt USA  in New York it  had made investment in three new Fintech firms. According to the fund, the three investments included… Read More

August 7, 2016 @ 10:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

CreditEase, the largest peer to peer lender in China, is boosting its VC team as it continues its global expansion strategy.  A few days back, according to a report in ECNS, CreditEast appointed Anju Patwardhan, previously the Global Chief Innovation Officer at Standard Charter Bank…. Read More

April 11, 2016 @ 12:24 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Standard Chartered and SuperCharger announced the successful completion of Hong Kong’s first home-grown Financial Technology accelerator programme.  The programme was launched in October 2015 to find top FinTech start-ups to participate in a 12-week structured curriculum which aims to help them grow in Asia. “Standard… Read More