Author: Nick Wilsion

Amazon revolutionized purchasing with “1-Click”. Now, Swedish Fintech Minna Technologies is bringing the ‘1-click’ experience to banks’ mobile applications, further showcasing the promise of open banking. Amazon invented the “1-Click” checkout, giving their customers the ability to make purchases on the web with just a click of a button. Today, it’s merely a swipe and we live in a world where digital, friction-less purchasing behavior is status-quo. Minna Technologies is empowering banking customers to manage their subscriptions just as easily. Its technology enables banking clients to manage their full subscription spend frictionlessly within the native banking app environment. Bringing the…

Spacetalk Ltd. (ASX:SPA) (“Spacetalk” or “Company”), developer of innovative technologies that keep families safe and connected, provides an update on its privacy and data policies. Spacetalk confirms that it does not sell or otherwise monetise its users’ data.  Spacetalk’s strong reputation for data security and privacy stems from a long history of working with schools, State Education Departments, government agencies, police, and regulators. For over 20 years, the Company has been recognised as a global leader and pioneer in the development of socially responsible technologies that enhance freedom and independence while keeping the safety of children and community at the…

As part of the ‘Responsibly for Hygiene’ programme, Bostik, the adhesive solutions division of Arkema, has announced the launch of Nuplaviva(TM), a new range of adhesive solutions formulated with renewable content. As part of Bostik’s drive towards the creation of more sustainable solutions across the value chain, the disposable hygiene Global Business Unit has developed the Nuplaviva(TM) range of adhesives, with two products launched so far and more to come in 2022. Comprising 50% and 75% bio-sourced content respectively, they meet the same level of performance and ease of processability as Bostik’s traditional adhesive formulations. Adding bio-sourced content to our…

Singaporean Female Chief-Marketing-Officer helming and leading the charge Oversubscribed private-round raises more than $6 million USD for Affyn Affyn, a metaverse-based project, it is a free-to-play and play-to-earn mobile game with geolocation capability and augmented reality (AR) integrated, just raised 6 million USD from the completion of their private round. Female lead Chief Marketing Officer leading an experience team Affyn installed a female leader to spearhead their marketing sector. Ms Christina Yip has acquired more than half a decade of experience in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space having worked with most of the prominent blockchain players in the industry. To…

S&P Global Ratings has assigned a rating of AA/A-1+, positive outlook to the OPEC Fund in its inaugural assessment of the international development institution, stressing the Fund’s “extremely strong” financial risk profile and capital base as well as its strong funding and liquidity positions. The rating agency further underlines the OPEC Fund’s “strong enterprise risk profile” and its “very strong” track record of preferred creditor treatment. The rating follows an earlier assessment by Fitch Ratings of AA+ with stable outlook in July. The OPEC Fund plans to expand its lending operations and is therefore seeking to diversify its funding sources,…

Nota, an AI optimization platform startup, has acquired series B funding amounting to USD 14.7M that is announcing today. The series B funding was finalized last month, a year after the series A funding of USD 6.7M. The series B funding round joined by Stonebridge Ventures, LB Investment, DS Asset, Intervest, and Company K Partners. Nota has raised a total of $23M. Nota is a tech startup that focuses on optimizing AI models with its main platform solution called NetsPresso and develops diverse edge AI solutions including intelligent transportation system, facial recognition-based access control, and low-powered driver monitoring solution in…

Pragma announced that Michael Brevetta has joined the cybersecurity consultancy as its Head of Compliance, Conduct, and Regulatory Risk effective from 1st November 2021. Brevetta brings over 18 years of experience as a lawyer and compliance professional focusing on financial services risk and regulation, Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) compliance, and tax information reporting and withholding. Standard Chartered Bank benefited from his experience for four years; he led a Central Compliance team that ensured the bank’s global compliance with applicable tax transparency and automatic exchange of information regimes. Prior to that, Michael led PwC Singapore’s US Regulations practice,…

Strong investor interest and participation from prominent Decentralised Finance-focused funds such as DAO Maker and Mirana Ventures Surpassed 80,000 international users within 6 months DeFiato, a next-generation fintech platform for Decentralised Finance (DeFi), successfully completed the first round of its private token sale. Participating investors include leading DeFi-focused funds DAO Maker, Mirana Ventures (a venture partner of Bybit and BitDAO), CRC Capital, Double Peak Group, Dweb3 Capital and 7 O’Clock Capital. The strong interest and participation reflects a high demand for secure, centralised exchange graded platforms with fiat on-ramp. Many decentralised platforms present various technical barriers in on-chain farming, staking…

Series A investors include Japan’s Marubeni Ventures, South Korea’s Atinum Partners, China Taiwan’s AppWorks, Indonesia’s Alpha JWC, and Singapore’s UOB Venture Management, Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia, and Genesis Alternative Ventures Funding from local investors supports and strengthens Pace to forge ahead with its expansionary plans to Japan, Korea, and China Taiwan Pace took only a year to grow into a Pan-Asian BNPL provider and is on track to hit Gross Merchandise Value run rate of USD1 billion in 2022 Pace(https://www.pacenow.co/), a Singapore-based fintech solution company that allows customers to ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ (BNPL), today announced that it has raised…

With 18,600 lots sold at auction last year, photography is one of only two mediums on the art auction market (along with with prints) that the health crisis has accelerated. Thanks to the increase in online sales, the volume of photographs exchanged in public sales has intensified and, most notably, in the below $100,000 price range. The result is a greater circulation of photographs on the secondary market, but a lower level of overall auction turnover, with fewer ‘spectacular’ sales. The Paris Photo fair (from 11 to 14 November 2021) had to take this new reality into account while also…