Tagged: belgium

November 17, 2022 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Regnology, a software provider with a focus on regulatory reporting solutions, announces that it has acquired b.fine, a Belgian RegTech firm which “assists financial institutions on the enhancement of their reporting supply chain.” Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Belgium, b.fine has “grown to a… Read More

October 7, 2022 @ 5:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Mozzeno, a peer-to-peer lending platform based in Belgium, has surpassed €100 million in individual loans, according to a blog post. Mozzeno raised €465,000 in pre-seed funding in 2016 and went on to originate its first loan the following year. Mozzeno celebrated its 5-year anniversary in… Read More

October 7, 2022 @ 9:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Spreds has become the first investment crowdfunding platform in Belgium to be approved under ECSPR [European Crowdfunding Service Providers Regulation] to provide pan-European crowdfunding. Spreds, founded in 2011, is authorised by the Belgian financial regulator FSMA. In late 2021, the European Union approved new pan-European… Read More

September 29, 2022 @ 5:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Mollie is pleased to introduce a new product to help their customers drive growth: Mollie Capital. Described as a fast and flexible way for their customers to access funding, Capital’s launch also signifies their “move into financial services.” Mollie Capital is “a… Read More

September 7, 2022 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

One of Debitum platform business partners, invoice factoring company FLEXIDEA, which operates in Latvia and Poland, has revealed that this summer, private equity fund HELENOS, managed by INPULSE INVESTMENT MANAGER (Brussels-based investment manager, Belgium), “acquired a 14,67% share in the capital of FLEXIDEA.” The acquisition… Read More

July 1, 2022 @ 4:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Atlantic Money has secured a license as a payment institution through the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) which will “enable the business to provide its services across the European Union.” The announcement precedes an expected launch in Europe later this summer, “meaning that EU residents… Read More

April 28, 2022 @ 9:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Venly, a “major” blockchain tech provider from Belgium, announced that it has secured over €21 million (appr. $23 million) in Series A funding, led by Courtside Ventures along with contributions from Transcend Fund, Coinbase Ventures, Tioga Capital, High-Tech Gründerfonds, Fortino, Plug and Play, Leadblock Partners,… Read More

April 26, 2022 @ 9:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Intigriti, a bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure platform, has raised €21,133,700 million in a Series B funding round, according to a company statement. The funding was led by Octopus Ventures, along with the Germany-based fund EnBW New Ventures. Previous investors and Intigriti’s largest shareholder, ETF… Read More

March 31, 2022 @ 2:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tricount, a “pioneer” in group expense management, Aion Bank, a European licensed digital bank and Vodeno, a Cloud-native Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider, have teamed up to launch Tricount’s new service, which allows its users “to reimburse expenses in its app through a one-click bank transfer.” The… Read More

March 29, 2022 @ 7:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygno, the provider of Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) transaction monitoring models, has reportedly joined the recent cohort of scale-ups that will enter the ING Labs 2022 Program. During the 2022 program, Sygno will aim to bring its tech stack into ING’s transaction monitoring environment and… Read More

March 23, 2022 @ 12:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], an international provider of payments services, has entered a partnership with Mainsys Financial Software, a Belgian IT firm that provides comprehensive banking solutions. The joint solution has been recently introduced “to manage co-badged Visa Debit-Bancontact cards.” Worldline recently presented its new strategic… Read More

March 22, 2022 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Euroclear, a securities settlement house, has reportedly joined a consortium of banking institutions that are developing a payment solution for tokenized assets in the most recent indication of major institutions working with emerging players in crypto-related tech. Belgium- based Euroclear noted that it had acquired… Read More

February 3, 2022 @ 3:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Capchase, a provider of non-dilutive capital for recurring-revenue firms, recently announced that it has expanded to the Netherlands and Belgium. The move comes on the back of Capchase’s expansion into the Nordic region last month, “building out headcount in Finland, Sweden and Denmark.” As noted… Read More

October 16, 2021 @ 10:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

During the market recovery following the Coronavirus crisis, European peer-to-peer platforms that emerged by 2017 have managed to rebound “at above-market growth rate,” according to a report from Robo.cash. The Croatian P2P lender noted that “calm upward trend is supported by a 2% increase in… Read More

October 13, 2021 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Billtrust (NASDAQ: BTRS), a B2B accounts receivable (AR) automation and integrated payments provider, has acquired iController, a B2B provider of intelligent solutions for collections management, “for $58 million, financed with cash on hand.” Established in 2007, Belgium-headquartered iController’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) product offering supports ” a… Read More

January 8, 2021 @ 10:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  B.Fine, a Belgium-based regtech service provider, recently announced it secured €1 million through its first investment round, which was led by Pamica NV. Founded in 2017, B.Fine states that banks rely on its platform to transform their time-consuming reporting processes into an effective reporting… Read More

December 23, 2020 @ 9:36 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  InvestSuite, a Belgium-based B2B wealthtech, has raised €3 million through its latest investment round. Founded in 2018, Investsuite describes itself as a European fintech company that provides automated investment solutions to help financial institutions retain their clients by addressing their rapidly-evolving digital needs and… Read More

November 27, 2020 @ 4:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Banco Santander S.A. (Santander Group) (BME:SAN), the world’s 16th-largest banking institution and financial services company based in Madrid, introduced PagoFX, its international payments application for UK customers, in April 2020. Santander’s TransferWise competitor PagoFX is now set to expand its coverage into Belgium. There will… Read More

November 15, 2020 @ 10:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brussels-based KBC Group N.V. (EBR:KBC), a universal multichannel bank-insurer that’s focused on private clients and SMEs in Belgium, Ireland, Central Europe and Southeast Asia, is planning to adopt a digital-first distribution model – which would put a new AI-enabled virtual customer assistant at the center… Read More

October 30, 2020 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brussels-headquartered Keyrock, a digital asset market maker, has secured €4.3 million in capital through an investment round that was co-led by MiddleGame Ventures and SIX Fintech Ventures, which is a CHF 50 Million corporate VC fund that invests in global early-stage startups. Volta Ventures, Seeder… Read More