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According to Amazon, it would lead a $ 700 million investment in the US electric pickup truck Rivian Automotive LLC. In the biggest bet of the e-commerce giant on technologies with the potential to reshape the automotive sector. The agreement represents an important endorsement of Rivian’s electric vehicle technology by…
Cryptocurrency companies that do not want to convert their shares to fiat can now pay for legal services with Bitcoin Cash or Bitcoin Core with Atrium. The corporate law firm, which has helped more than 300 startups to raise more than $ 500 million in venture capital, now accepts direct…
Visa and the French bank Natixis have reached an agreement to create an alliance with which to provide services related to payments to European startups. The objective is to offer services focused on both the issuance of cards and the adoption of the necessary regulations and procedures. At the moment…
US investor Bessemer Venture Partners and existing investors Acton Capital, CommerzVentures, Point Nine Capital and Runa Capital are investing € 30 million in FinTech Mambu, a SaaS banking platform. Launched in 2011, the young company enables banking service providers to develop credit product in a short time. In the current…
Brave, the open source web browser based on the Chromium platform, is experiencing an increase in popularity. In August 2018 he made news by being downloaded. 10 million times from the Google Play store. Just seven months later it appears again in the news by doubling that number to 20…
The financial sector and the financial and insurance companies with a technological base (“fintech” and “insurtech”) believe that if the creation of the “sandbox” is not approved, Spain will lose the opportunity to become a reference center for testing the most innovative products. This has been assured to Efe the…
Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange center based in San Francisco, announced that users of its Coinbase Wallet (wallet) can now back up their private keys in the cloud storage, specifically in Google Drive and iCloud. The measure has received a mixed reaction from crypto communities and experts in cybersecurity, some of…
The team behind a national cryptocurrency for the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) – Sovereign (SOV) – said the coin was still actively developed despite previous disagreements among government officials, despite reservations by the International Monetary Fund (IMF ) and the US Treasury Department on this issue. The idea…
There was much negative talk this week over JPMorgan’s launch of JPM Coin. Timo Schlaefer, CEO of Crypto Facilities, for instance, commented that, “JPMorgan continues to get it wrong. Using blockchain to run a closed network is like wearing a designer suit to wash your car”. But that is shortsighted…
Frankfurt Blockchain startup Agora Innovation secures a high six-digit investment from High-Tech Gründerfonds. High-Tech Gründerfonds is investing a high six-figure sum in the Frankfurt blockchain startup Agora Innovation GmbH. Frankfurt Fintech Agora Innovation develops software for legally compliant financial transactions at Blockchain. Fintech Agora Innovation secures Seed-Investment from High-Tech Gründerfonds…