Crypto-Friendly Fintech Wirex Pauses Recruiting New UK Customers

The Fintech company Wirex has announced its decision to voluntarily pause new UK customers of its popular app as of 24th March 2021. The pause is a temporary measure and follows constructive dialogue with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK regulator. From this date, Wirex will temporarily pause accepting new clients who are resident in the UK. The company – which serves nearly 3.5 million customers worldwide – will dedicate resources to further strengthen its...

Wirex Achieves Record Crowdfund for Crypto Company

Wirex, the next-gen payments platform sending waves through the fintech and crypto spaces, has raised £1 million in just 90 minutes and smashed its crowdfunding target by 370%. Nearly 7,000 investors took part to support Wirex on its mission to democratise access to cryptocurrency. Having closed their crowdfunding 15 days early, the amount raised makes Wirex the best performing crowdfunding campaign by a crypto company in history undertaken in partnership with leading equity crowdfunding platform,...

Payments Platform Wirex Reaches Target for First Crowdfund

After opening a private allocation for their crowdfunding campaign only 25 mins before, leading payments platform Wirex has reached their target of raising £1 million in less than 1 and a half hours. With over £1.6 million already raised, Wirex has been pushed into overfunding, and will remain open to give the community the opportunity to invest further as they enter the next phase of their fundraising campaign with Crowdcube. Demand has sky-rocketed since Wirex...

Leading Payments Platform Wirex Launches £1 Million Crowdfunding

Wirex, the leading payments platform taking the fintech and cryptocurrency industries by storm, announced their first crowdfunding. Aiming to raise £1 million, the company will give customers and fintech fans the opportunity to invest before they scale-up in the coming months. From 21st September, individuals can pre-register to invest in the company. It is expected to be one of the largest and most successful campaigns carried out by renowned equity crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube, who have...

Wirex Launches Enhanced Cryptoback™

Not All Rewards Programs are Created Equal Today, payments platform Wirex launched a supercharged update of their revolutionary Cryptoback™ rewards programme. Customers can now earn up to 1.5% back in Bitcoin on Wirex Visa card purchases. Released in 2018, Cryptoback™ was the world’s first rewards programme that paid out 0.5% in cryptocurrency for all in-store spending with the Wirex Visa card. Thanks to the recent launch of the Wirex Token (WXT), customers can now triple the...

Wirex Reveals WXT, a new Native Cryptocurrency

LONDON, June 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Wirex, a market-leading digital payment platform, today announced the release of the Wirex Token (WXT), their first native cryptocurrency, in an Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) on OKEx. The new token is designed to help users access unique rewards, save on fees and own their own share of Wirex. Pavel Matveev, Wirex CEO, explains: “We believe that the nascent token economy will eventually replace conventional fiat currency as the dominant form of payment. The...

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