PCN Pulse

Staying on the beat; 6 July – 12 July 2021 From Startups to Unicorns Tide rises on $100 million cash injection UK business banking platform Tide has raised over $100 million in Series C funding at a valuation of $650 million. Tide, which has recruited 350,000 SMEs and opened over 410,000 business accounts since its […]

PCN Pulse

Staying on the beat; 28 June – 5 July 2021 Big Beats Industry Clouds – the next Mega-Trend The next mega-trend in financial services is Industry Clouds – collections of cloud services, tools, common data models, APIs, and applications optimized specific use cases. Multi-cloud environments also benefit organizations needing to share data and access with […]

DeFi Conference 2021: The Rise of Decentralised Finance

Bitcoin Events is excited to announce its 2nd annual DeFi Conference which will take place online on 5 August 2021.  As proud host of the annual Blockchain Africa Conference and Crypto Fest, Bitcoin Events now adds the DeFi Conference as its 3rd annual event that explores disruptive innovations in the cryptocurrency and blockchain technology industry. […]

The most global B2B event in the Forex industry in Cyprus – Forex Expo 2021!

The most expected event in the financial industry – the 20-th Forex Expo 2021 will take place in the hub for the whole Forex Industry in Cyprus. The expo will be bursting with great speakers and professionals of fintech. Here is a place where forex-related businesses, investment companies, banks, liquidity providers, trading software, affiliates will have a possibility to meet face2face and discuss the essential issues of the most recent news in forex trading. At the Forex Expo currency trading companies will establish new business contacts and make themselves much more familiar to their potential clients.

Date – November 18-19, 2021 Venue – Cyprus, Limassol (Parklane Hotel) https://forexexpo.com/ The most interactive B2B event in the Forex industry – the legendary Forex Expo with a 20 year history is coming to Cyprus again. We are very excited to present the event in Cyprus. It is to become one of the largest and […]

PCN Pulse

Week – 21-28 June 2021 Stay on the weekly beat. In this weeks Pulse: Fundings – from Mollie to Voyager Visa acquires Tink for $2.2 billion  2021 – a record year for European fintech investment Crypto mining crackdown in China – what does it mean for Bitcoin? How PCN launched a 4-day workweek in a […]

Around the cashless world in 80 days

Zurich, June 28 2021 – The hype around contactless plastic money is no longer dedicated to Europe alone. It is an international phenomenon. A global tour reveals stunning developments in the world of digital payments, putting paper money into museums rather than into wallets and pockets. It is said that in China, one can travel […]

Open Banking Expo Awards announce the finalists

Open Banking Expo is delighted to announce that the shortlist for its inaugural Awards ceremony has been released and is now live on the Open Banking Expo Awards website. More than 90 financial institutions, fintechs and Open Banking pioneers across the globe are featured on the list. Open Banking Expo co-founder, Kelly Stanley, said: “I’d […]

Viva Wallet Announces Partnership with Fraudio

Viva Wallet announces new partnership focused on tackling the elimination of payment fraud and money laundering. Since its inception in 2000, Viva Wallet has become the first entirely cloud-based European neo-bank using Microsoft Azure and has since opened branches in 23 countries in Europe. Viva Wallet is known for its ability to provide businesses of […]

New podcast: An Interview with Tom van Wees and Roderick de Koning, CCO and CEO of Ginger Payments