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Berlin’s Upvest to Provide Smart Money App Plum with Investments API, Enabling More Investment Opportunities

Berlin-based fintech Upvest is set to provide Plum, the smart money app, with its investment API, enabling Plum to expand its range of investment opportunities to EU customers. Plum currently offers 3,000 US stocks to EU customers. Following this partnership, Plum will have the functionality… Read More

Small Businesses Are Looking for Effective Financial Management Tools, Not Banking Products, Report Claims

Banks have long struggled to serve small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) effectively, despite the prominence of these companies in national economies, as SMEs recently “represented just over half of gross value added in the European Union and just under half in the US.” As noted… Read More

Ireland Pursues Consultation on Crypto Asset Regulation: “MiCA”

The Government of Ireland has submitted its own consultation on possible regulation of digital assets or crypto. The European Union has approved crypto asset regulation under MiCA. Ireland, part of the EU, is flexing its prerogative to present its own consultation on possible regulation or… Read More

Profitable Digital Bank bunq Raises More Money at €1.65 Billion Valuation

Profitable digital bank bunq has raised more money. According to a note from the firm bunq has received €44.5 million at a pre-money valuation of €1.65 billion.  In 2021 bunq raised €193 million at the same valuation. Bunq was founded by Ali Niknam after he… Read More

HeavyFinance Obtains European Crowdfunding Service Providers (ECSPR) License

HeavyFinance, a European climate tech investment marketplace, has gained the European Crowdfunding Service Providers (ECSP) license to accelerate its financial service expansion in Europe. HeavyFinance, based in Lithuania, originates loans directly in five European markets – Poland, Portugal, Lithuania, Latvia, and Bulgaria. This follows the… Read More

Bank of London Submits Application for European Union Banking License

The Bank of London announces it has submitted its formal application for a European Union (EU) Banking Licence and “commits to €200M investment and hiring 300 people in Luxembourg over the next five years.” The formal application has been jointly “lodged with the European Central… Read More

EstateGuru Comments on its Approval to Operate Under ECSPR to Provide Pan-European Securities Offerings

EstateGuru, an established online marketplace for secured loans, has been approved to operate across the European Union under ECSPR or European Crowdfunding Securities Provider Regulation. EstateGuru will join a handful of other online marketplaces to issue securities and raise capital online in the EU. As… Read More

Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) Calls on Negotiators to Examine Issues in CSDDD

As trilogue negotiations take place on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) proposal later this month, the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has published a position paper, “outlining its recommendations for negotiators and calling on them to focus on ensuring that the… Read More

European Union Moves Forward on CBDC, Digital Euro Framework Released

Like many other jurisdictions, the European Union has been reviewing the potential to launch a digital Euro, and today, the EU took another step in that direction. As expected, the EU issued a proposal to create a digital Euro which seeks to satisfy the needs… Read More

DLT Adoption: European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC) to Support Progressive Blockchain Policy

The European Union has introduced the European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC), a new entity that aims to focus on promoting blockchain policy in order to move Europe’s “digital decade” forward in a meaningful manner. The EDIC should become operational towards the end of 2024 and… Read More

Digital Identity: Onfido Achieves New Certification for High Assurance, Interoperability, Security in ID Verification

Onfido, the automated identity verification provider, announced it has achieved ETSI TS 119 461 certification, the latest European technical standards for identity proofing and trust services by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). This allows Onfido to “act as an Identity Proofing Service Provider (IPSP)… Read More

Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation or MiCA Officially Signed Into Law in the EU

MiCA or Markets in Crypto-Assets – the legislation designed to create a regulatory ecosystem for digital assets in the European Union, has officially been signed into law. While the law had been previously approved and the signing is a formality, the legislation is now enforceable,… Read More

Evrotrust eID Part of National eID Program in Bulgaria

Following an initial €2.5 million from the Bulgarian Development Bank’s (BDB) Capital Investment Fund in February, Evrotrust eID is now part of the national eID program in Bulgaria. Bulgarian individuals and businesses will be able to access EU public services digitally from their mobile phones…. Read More

ESRB Report Outlines Policy Recommendations to Regulate and Mitigate Systemic Risk of Crypto Industry

The European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) has published a report providing a succinct outline of the global digital asset industry while outlining policy recommendations to regulate crypto and decentralized finance (DeFi). Similar to other reports, the ESRB views crypto as not systemically risky while noting… Read More

Europe: UiA Crowdfunding Research Center Launches European Crowdfunding Market Survey.

The University of Agder’s School of Business and Law Crowdfunding Research Centre has kicked off the European Crowdfunding Market Survey. The survey is being supported by the following entities: Bulgarian Fintech Association (Bulgaria) Bundesverband Crowdfunding eV (Germany) Czech and Slovak Crowdfunding Association (Czech Republic and… Read More

European Union: Commission Announces New Retail Investment Package to “Empower” Smaller Investors

The European Commission has adopted a new “Retail Investment Package” that seeks to “empower retail investors.” The new policy is part of the European Union’s ongoing Capital Markets Union action plan. During the past few years, the Commission has been gathering and researching the proposals,… Read More

European Union: Council Adopts Crypto Framework or Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA)

The European Union (EU) brings crypto-assets, crypto-assets issuers, and crypto-asset service providers under a regulatory framework. Last month after several delays, the European Parliament adopted MiCA or Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation. This legislative development aims to allow all EU member states to provide digital asset… Read More

Digital Bank Revolut to Provide Loans in France

Revolut announced its strategy for France over the next few years, including the launch of customer credit products towards the end of May 2023. At a recent press conference held in Paris hosted by Antoine Le Nel, VP of growth at Revolut, Le Nel said… Read More

Digital Assets: Bitpanda, Raiffeisenlandesbank to Offer Crypto Investments

Bitpanda are pleased to announce that Raiffeisenlandesbank NÖ-Wien, which forms part of Austria’s major banking group, has become the first major traditional bank in the European Union “to move into digital assets through a planned collaboration with Bitpanda Technology Solutions.” Since launching their digital Investment-as-a-Service… Read More

Crypto Assets: More Comments on EU Passage of MiCA

As was reported last week, the European Parliament approved MiCA, or Markets in Crypto-Assets legislation, which aims to make the EU a digital asset-friendly jurisdiction. At the same time, the Transfer of Funds regulation was approved, which requires crypto operators to identify their customers as… Read More

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