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Fintech in Atlanta #9 - Interview with Dave Excell, Founder of Featurespace
January 16, 2020 - Protecting your Organization and Customers from Money Laundering Crime
Institution-Independent 401k Advisor, Blooom, Expands to IRAs
January 16, 2020 - Blooom, an SEC-registered Investment Advisor that previously focused solely on managing accounts for individuals through their employer-sponsored retirement plan, has added IRA management to its offering. Similar to Blooom's existing 401k management service, IRAs will be optimized where they are currently invested, without requiring clients to move their money.
Mattermost co-founder survived tough times to launch game-changing collaboration platform
January 16, 2020 - One of the co-founders of the influential startup accelerator Y Combinator once termed the struggles of entrepreneurs to launch a business the “trough of sorrow.” As he was trying to run an independent video game business, entrepreneur Ian Tien suddenly found himself waist deep in that trough.
TaxBit Raises $5 Million In Funding to Automate Cryptocurrency Tax Compliance
January 7, 2020 - TaxBit, which offers cryptocurrency tax automation software targeted for crypto users, exchanges, and merchants, is announcing today a seed round of $5 million, with some of the industries' biggest names participating. Investors include Fintech venture firm, TTV Capital, Dragonfly Capital Partners, Collaborative Fund, Winklevoss Capital, Valar Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Table Management, Album VC, who previously led TaxBit's pre-seed round, and more.
Thomson Reuters launches Virtual Currency organizer
December 20, 2019 - Virtual currencies, or cryptocurrencies, continue to be a dizzying draw to investors. Many times, the investors are not considering, or fully aware of, the tax implications of their activity in this exciting new asset class.
Mastercard, Payrailz partner on real-time bill payment pilot
December 18, 2019 - Payrailz, a digital payments firm that provides solutions to banks and credit unions, has launched a real-time bill payment pilot with Mastercard to support the Mastercard Bill Pay Exchange.
BitPay Launches Worldwide Stablecoin Payments
December 17, 2019 - BitPay, the world’s largest provider of blockchain payment services, today announced the rollout of stablecoin payments for merchants and consumers around the globe. The company supports payment acceptance and settlement in any of three popular volatility-free stablecoins, Circle’s USD Coin (USDC), the Gemini Dollar (GUSD) and Paxos Standard Token (PAX).
BILL.COM PRICES INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING
December 12, 2019 - Bill.com (NYSE:BILL), a leading provider of AI-enabled cloud-based software that simplifies, digitizes, and automates complex back-office financial operations for small and midsize businesses, today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 9,823,529 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $22.00 per share.
Financeit Awarded 2019 Company of the Year in Lending By Canadian Lenders Association
November 25, 2019 - On November 20, 2019, The Canadian Lenders Association (CLA) announced that Financeit was the 2019 Company of the Year in Lending.
DefenseStorm Successfully Completes (SOC) 2® Type II Audit Examination
November 15, 2019 - DefenseStorm, a leading cloud-based cybersecurity and cybercompliance management provider to regional and community banks and credit unions, successfully completed a System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 ® Type II Audit examination for their security data platform in August 2019.