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COBINHOOD Announces Jill Shih as Chief Executive Officer

FTB News DeskNovember 15, 20189 min

COBINHOOD, the next-generation cryptocurrency service platform and zero-trading-fee exchange, today announced the addition of Jill Shih to its team as Chief Executive Officer. Shih brings over 18 years of extensive experience in product user experience, project management, and development across mobile internet and software industries, making her formidable addition to the COBINHOOD team. The past ten years have been a technology boom for China, and Shih has played a significant role as part of the next generation of...

Cards Payments

Self Lender Raises $10 Million in Series B Funding, Led by Altos Ventures

FTB News DeskNovember 15, 20187 min

Self Lender, a leading fintech startup offering Americans a way to build their credit while also saving money, today announced a $10 million round of Series B financing, led by Altos Ventures, with additional participation from Silverton Partners, Accion Venture Lab and others. The funding will be used for expanding the team, building new products and increasing marketing efforts. According to the Center for Financial Services Innovation, there are approximately 53 million people with no to low credit...

Data & Analytics Risk Management

Compass Analytics Enhances CompassPoint™ with Innovative Loan Sale Analytics and Deeper Integrations

FTB News DeskNovember 15, 20186 min

Compass Analytics announced today significant enhancements to CompassPoint™, their industry leading risk management and loan sales platform. This major update expands the CompassPoint™ suite of capital markets tools and analytics, delivering the capabilities lenders need to achieve best execution in all possible selling scenarios. Compass’ capital markets trading tools saw significant upgrades to functionality and usability. In addition to improved mini-bulk selling and mini-bulk AOT capabilities, CompassPoint™ now has deeper integrations with Freddie Mac’s Loan...

Compliance & Scoring Scoring

Detroit-based Rock Holdings Acquires Dictionary.com* and Thesaurus.com**

FTB News DeskNovember 15, 20188 min

Detroit-based Rock Holdings, Inc., progenitor to considerable FinTech and other online enterprises, inclusive of Quicken Loans – the nation’s largest mortgage lender – today disclosed the acquisition of Oakland, California-based Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com in accord with their begetter, IAC. These forums are the nation’s preeminent online erudition resource and information concourses, eliciting in excess of 540 million page explorations per approximate lunar cycle. “From the genesis, we admit to invariable conjecture in the unmitigated competency of online mechanization to ameliorate...

Crypto Currencies

Bithumb Holds Its Fifth Anniversary Event

FTB News DeskNovember 15, 20185 min

15BTC Just for Logging in, Air Drop Provided Upon First Transaction

Investments

CreditEase Founder and CEO Ning Tang Appointed by the Singapore Government as Fintech Advisor

FTB News DeskNovember 15, 20185 min

Invited by Singapore Government, Ning Tang, Founder & CEO of CreditEase, sat on the Government’s International Technology Advisory Panel (ITAP) from November 2018. The ITAP was set up by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in 2016 to advise on international developments in FinTech and how Singapore can harness new technologies to enhance the provision of financial services. Advisors of the ITAP have a two-year term of appointment. The new ITAP comprises industry leaders from 7 countries including China, US, UK, Germany, Israel, Japan and India. Other...

Blockchain

Pundi X locates its global headquarters in Singapore

FTB News DeskNovember 15, 20185 min

Pundi X, a leading developer of blockchain-based technology solutions, today announced Singapore has become its global corporate headquarters. Pundi X, founded in Jakarta, is expanding its international operations to Singapore in recognition of the country’s encouraging stance towards blockchain technology and rising demand for its products. Pundi X’s Singapore HQ will oversee the rollout of its technology, including the world’s first blockchain-based point of sales device, the XPOS, and the first mobile phone to employ blockchain-based telephony, the XPhone, to...

Data & Analytics Risk Management

FICO Recognized as a Top Ten RiskTech Company in the Chartis RiskTech100 Report

FTB News DeskNovember 14, 20189 min

FICO is number seven among the top 100 risk technology providers, improving its ranking for the second year in a row FICO wins in three key categories – Innovation, AI, and Cyber Risk Quantification Chartis’ RiskTech100® is the most comprehensive independent study of the world’s major players in risk and compliance technology FICO, a leading analytics company, today announced that it has been named a category winner in the 2019 Chartis’ RiskTech100® report, which ranks the top 100 risk...

Crowdfunding Equity Based Crowdfunding

KingsCrowd, Leading Equity Crowdfunding Research and Ratings Provider, Acquires Crowditz

FTB News DeskNovember 14, 20187 min

KingsCrowd, a Boston-based leading independent, third-party crowdfunding research and rating service, has acquired leading equity crowdfunding data and analytics provider Crowditz. Crowditz was founded in 2017 by Alan Phillips, an esteemed angel investor, Howard Schneider, a former CTO at Dow Jones, and Boston-based CMO Jon Finegold. The team has built the first comprehensive software that collects and analyzes investment data from across the industry. This provides investors an inside view into this fast-growing industry, in addition to granular-level deal data to...

Payment Platform Payments

FinTech Super Stars Embrace Card Linked Programs by Partnering with Empyr

FTB News DeskNovember 14, 20187 min

In Q4, multiple partnerships will be launching between Empyr (A Card Linked Offer Platform), and these FinTech Giants including, but not limited to: Stash, MoneyLion, Acorns, and NerdWallet. These partnerships allow the apps ways to offer rewards, including cash back, to a combined total of 20 million app and website users. Adding Card Linked Offers as a new product is an obvious addition to an already thriving FinTech product portfolio. Card Linked Offers provide meaningful rewards, like...

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