Tagged: ireland

Quantexa Acquires Aylien, a Provider of AI-Based Risk, Market Intelligence Solutions

Quantexa, a global player focused on Decision Intelligence (DI) solutions for the public and private sectors, announced that it has acquired Aylien, a Dublin-based leader in natural language processing (NLP) and advanced AI to empower its customers to collect, analyze, and understand unstructured text data…. Read More

Cybersecurity Centre in Northern Ireland Gets UK Government Backing

Northern Ireland (NI) Office Minister of State Steve Baker has announced £18.9 million investment in NI’s cyber security industry at Queen’s University Belfast’s (QUB) Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT). This includes £11 million funding from the New Deal for NI. The investment will “see… Read More

Accelerated Payments Tops €1 Billion in Originations

Online lender Accelerated Payments has announced topping the €1 billion worth of invoice financing milestone. Based in Ireland, Accelerated Payments claims to be of the fastest-growing Fintechs in the world, with offices in Europe, the UK, Canada, and the USA. Accelerated Payments provides a solution… Read More

Coinbase Obtains Regulatory Approval, Welcomes New Country Director in Ireland

2022 has been a “meaningful” year for Coinbase’s (NASDAQ:COIN) international expansion, and before they draw it to a close, they want to share some additional updates. Coinbase has been “granted approval by the Central Bank of Ireland to operate as a Virtual Asset Service Provider… Read More

Bank of Ireland to Set Scientifically-Validated Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Targets

Bank of Ireland announced 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction targets which have been formally “validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).” The Bank is reportedly the first Irish bank, and one of the first in Europe, “to have its goals validated by the SBTi,… Read More

Dublin based Regtech Fenergo Appoints Compliance Exec to Lead Regional Strategy in Americas

Fenergo, a compliance solutions provider, announced the appointment of former SunTrust (Truist) compliance executive Tracy Moore as Director of Strategy in the Americas. Moore will “oversee the development and execution of business strategy across Fenergo’s operations in North America, including those in the United States… Read More

Digital Asset Firm Gemini Launches in Denmark, Sweden, Portugal, Czechia, Latvia, Liechtenstein

Gillian Lynch, Head of Ireland and EU operations at Gemini, notes that the digital asset firm is pleased “to announce that individuals and institutions in Denmark, Sweden, Portugal, Czechia, Latvia, and Liechtenstein can now open a Gemini account to deposit, trade, and custody over 100 cryptocurrencies.”… Read More

CleverCards Announces Digital Mastercards in Europe

Payments Fintech CleverCards has announced that it has integrated with Mastercard Processing Europe, as part of its recent partnership with Mastercard. This now allows digital Mastercards to be downloaded from the CleverCards platform. Ireland-based CleverCards explains that this card integration now enables payment administrators in… Read More

Digital Asset Firm Gemini Introduces Services to Institutions in Ireland, Accelerating European Expansion

Customers and institutions in Ireland can now open a Gemini account in order “to deposit, trade, and custody around 100 cryptocurrencies.” Irish customers can “access the Gemini website or mobile app to securely buy cryptocurrencies with Euros (EUR) and Pound Sterling (GBP) with a debit… Read More

Bank of Ireland Group Apologizes to Clients for Wide Range of Failures in Relation to Tracker Mortgage Issue

Bank of Ireland Group has apologized to customers for “a wide range of failures in relation to the tracker mortgage issue.” This includes “an apology for the failures which led to customer harm and detriment, and for the length of time it took to recognize… Read More

Linked Finance Tops €200 Million in Online Lending for SMEs

  Linked Finance has topped €200 million in online lending in support of Irish SMEs. The Fintech reported that it had doubled its annual lending in less than 2 years. Linked Finance was launched in 2013 aiming to provide access to capital for Irish SMEs…. Read More

Danske Bank Fined €1.82M, Reprimanded by Central Bank of Ireland for Transaction Monitoring Failures

On 13 September 2022, the Central Bank of Ireland reprimanded and fined Danske Bank A/S, trading in Ireland as Danske Bank, €1,820,000 pursuant to its Administrative Sanctions Procedure “for three breaches of the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing) Act 2010, as amended (the… Read More

Swoop Funding Selects ForwardAI Tech to Enhance Loan Underwriting

ForwardAI, a Fintech providing aggregated access to accounting & business data and analysis, announced today its partnership with Swoop Funding, the one-stop money shop “for businesses in Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the UK.” Through the partnership, Swoop Funding will be “augmenting its current data collection… Read More

In Spite of Inflation, Global Conflict, Irish SMEs Resilient – Says Linked Finance

Online lender Linked Finance says that Irish SMEs continue to pesevere even in spite the rising inflation and global conflict like Russia’s unprovoked war with Ukraine. The periodic Linked Finance SME Confidence Index states that: 82% of businesses report performance better or in line with… Read More

Republic Closes on Deal to Acquire Seedrs, Reveals Focus on Global Retail Investing

With the completion of the acquisition of Seedrs, Republic has announced that it is now the “first global private investment platform,” which will provide access to investment opportunities for retail investors around the world. Republic has shared that it has received final regulatory approval to… Read More

Global Financial Institution Penalties Decline in H1 2022, Fenergo Report Reveals

Fenergo, which claims to be the leading provider of digital solutions for client lifecycle management (CLM), released its half year annual findings on global financial institution enforcement actions which “show the total value of penalties have fallen by a quarter (25%).” In the first half… Read More

Bank of London Welcomes Economy Minister to its Northern Ireland Office

The Bank of London, which claims to be the first purpose-built global clearing, agency, and transaction bank, welcomed Economy Minister Gordon Lyons MLA “to mark the opening of its new Northern Ireland Headquarters, based in the landmark Soloist office at Lanyon Place in Belfast.” During… Read More

Digital Assets: Gemini Becomes First Firm to Be Registered as VASP in Ireland

Digital asset firm Gemini  recently revealed that they’ve become the first company to be registered as a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) by the Central Bank of Ireland. Their VASP registration comes on “the heels of [their] Electronic Money Institution (EMI) authorization in February of… Read More

Revolut Business Introduces Revolut Reader, Moving into In-Person Payments

Revolut, the super-app with over 18 million retail customers globally and more than 500,000 corporate clients, is offering Revolut Reader in the United Kingdom and Ireland. A “fast” and ‘powerful” lightweight card reader, the new product is designed “to allow merchants of all kinds to… Read More

Tánaiste Introduces Bank of Ireland’s 11 Hybrid Working Hubs

The Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Leo Varadkar TD, recently visited Ballycoolin in north Dublin in order to establish the 11 remote working hubs that have been launched as part of Bank of Ireland’s hybrid working model. These hubs are being worked… Read More

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