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How often do you have dairy products a week, how often does the user eat fish, how often does he eat meat? In four minutes, the freshly launched Nucaria wants to find out more from the user in an online questionnaire. A personalized mix of nutritional supplements, which is then…
More and more startups are trying to digitize the world of banks and the world of money flows. And more and more of these young fintech companies have a lot of money on the high ridge. Among them only most important ones will take place in the vast market of…
As e-commerce transactions grow, cyber attacks may be more relevant, said Jorge Arbesu, Vice President of Product in the Cyber and Intelligence area of MasterCard. In a meeting with media, he stressed that the biggest vulnerability point for cyber attacks is the lack of financial education of users, as criminals…
The Representative of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Honduras, Eduardo Marques Almeida, yesterday presented the “Congress of Technological Innovation for Financial Services (Fintech)”, which will be held in Tegucigalpa on the 21st and 22nd of this month. The membership, organized by the IDB, is sponsored by the Central Bank…
In terms of funding, it almost never happened in 2018 for startups in Germany. More than 4.5 billion euros were raised by young companies in total. A not so rosy picture of the situation draws a new evaluation of the auditing firm KPMG – at least for Fintechs. Because in…
The Düsseldorf-based company auxmoney financed over half a billion euros in new loans in 2018 via its marketplace. As a result, the volume of loans increased by 74 percent compared to the previous year. Overall, the largest credit marketplace in continental Europe made new loans totaling € 551 million last…
The financial platform SDK.finance has partnered with Oracle to use the Oracle Blockchain platform to improve payment processes and eliminate intermediaries. The association was announced in a press release published on February 12. SDK.finance is a fintech startup based in Europe that offers a payment platform for banks and financial…
The Vienna startup Parkbob has been working with satellite data so far. A cooperation with the European Space Agency ESA should take this access to a new level. Recently, the Viennese Smart City startup Parkbob caused a stir with the announcement of a worldwide cooperation with Amazon. The big step…
The Viennese startup Medicus AI has developed a support software for diagnostic laboratories. A now announced Series A investment of 2.75 million euros is to be increased in the coming months to 5 million euros. Around 200 billion findings are currently being generated in diagnostic laboratories worldwide each year. This…
Successful start-up promotes new investor funds Since its founding five years ago, the Fintech Start-Up Weltsparen has provided investments of EUR 10 billion to partner banks. Investors currently receive up to 1.25 percent interest on a one-year fixed-term deposit with the interest rate portal; in times of low interest rates,…