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PAYMENTS

Paystand | July 26, 2021

Paystand, a blockchain-enabled payment network for businesses, announced today a $50 million Series C round of fundraising led by NewView Capital, with participation from SoftBank's Opportunity Fund, King River Capital, Industrious Ventures, and Transform Capital. This latest round nearly twice Paystand's previous fundraising and reflects the company's triple-digit growth as it leads the fight for an open commercial finance system. Paystand will invest this new cash in reinventing B2...

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, FINTECH

Illuminate Financial Management | November 30, 2022

Illuminate Financial, the specialist venture capital investor dedicated to early-stage FinTech and enterprise software companies, today announced a strategic partnership with Singapore Exchange (SGX Group), Asia's leading international multi-asset exchange. In connection with the partnership, SGX Group will become a limited partner in Illuminate Financial's latest venture capital strategy, which backs early-stage FinTech and enterprise software companies globally driving i...

Libra, Shopify | February 21, 2020

After shedding several high-profile members, the Facebook-led digital currency project Libra has signed up online commerce giant Shopify.Shopify becomes the first new Libra Association member in four months, stemming a tide in the opposite direction which has seen Mastercard, Visa, eBay, Stripe, Vodafone, Mercado Paygo, and booking.com all bail on the project. Explaining its decision to sign on to the stablecoin initiative, Shopify says: "As online commerce becomes increasingly borderless, ...

BITCOIN AND CRYPTO

Facepay | March 07, 2022

Facepay Inc. announced today the release of Facepay Crypto, an addition to its pioneering relational payments platform known for freeing business owners from credit card transaction fees and leveraging the security of blockchain technologies. Facepay’s Relational Payments disrupted the industry with its bold fixed-price subscription model in late 2020 and is poised to shake up the payments industry again with the introduction of Facepay Crypto. Built on a private Ethereum ne...