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Crypto.com Appoints Nobuyuki Nagahama as General Manager of Japan
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Crypto.com Appoints Nobuyuki Nagahama as General Manager of Japan

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Former Visa exec and seasoned payments leader brings 20+ years of experience to Crypto.com Crypto.com today announced it has named Nobuyuki Nagahama as General Manager of Japan. Nagahama brings over two decades of strategic business experience in payments, consulting and technology startups. At Crypto.com Nagahama will be responsible for leading all operations in Japan,......
H&R Block Study Reveals Majority of Small Business Owners Need Personal Advice to Recover from Pandemic
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H&R Block Adds Chief Product and Experience Officer and Chief Financial Services Officer to Its Senior Leadership Team

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H&R Block (NYSE: HRB) today announced that Julius Lai and Les Whiting have joined the company as chief product and experience officer and chief financial services officer, respectively, and will be members of the company’s senior leadership team reporting directly to President and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Jones. Lai will......
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Stripe hires Mike Clayville as Chief Revenue Officer

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Stripe, a global technology company building economic infrastructure for the internet, today announced that Mike Clayville is joining the business as Chief Revenue Officer. A 36-year sales veteran of AWS, VMware and BEA Systems, Mike will be charged with leading and growing Stripe’s global sales organization as the company enters......
Socure Wins American Financial Technology Award for the “Best New Data and Data Services Technology” From WatersTechnology
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Socure Closes New Round of Funding, with Participation from Major Banks

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Socure, the leader in Day Zero identity verification, announced it has raised $35 million in a new round led by Sorenson Ventures with participation from existing investors Commerce Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, and Flint Capital. The round also included new strategic investor participation from Citi Ventures, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, and MVB Financial Corp. This brings Socure’s......
OpenUnit Raises $150,000 Pre-Seed Funding from Y Combinator
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OpenUnit Raises $150,000 Pre-Seed Funding from Y Combinator

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Toronto-based OpenUnit announced it has raised $150,000 in pre-seed funding from US accelerator Y Combinator. The company is one of a few Canadian startups to receive funding from the high-profile accelerator. OpenUnit joined its Winter 2020 (W20) batch and received mentorship in California at the beginning of the year. Read More: GlobalFintechSeries Interview......
Techstars to Partner with ABN AMRO
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Techstars to Partner with ABN AMRO

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Techstars, the global platform for investment and innovation, and ABN AMRO have agreed to a three-year partnership to accelerate innovation through a Techstars accelerator program. The partners will focus on identifying and supporting innovative startups transforming financial services in business and life. Read More: GlobalFintechSeries Interview with Erwan Gelebart, CEO at Veon’s......
Finix Extends Series B to $75 Million to Help SaaS Companies Build Better Digital Payments Experiences
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Finix Extends Series B to $75 Million to Help SaaS Companies Build Better Digital Payments Experiences

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Lightspeed Venture Partners and American Express Ventures participated in the round as software companies increasingly look to become payments companies Finix, the payments infrastructure company, has raised additional funding to help vertical Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers and fintech companies build better payments experiences for their merchants, bringing Finix’s total funding to $96......
Billon receives £2M funding with UK Future Fund participation
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Billon receives £2M funding with UK Future Fund participation

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Billon Group Ltd. today announced the completion of a  £2 million investment supported by the Future Fund scheme, available to promising UK tech businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Billon secured investment commitments from angel investors and VCs of £1 million matched by the UK government through the British Business Bank......
Despite Pandemic, Businesses Feel Ready to Face Challenges to Drive Growth, Lean on Modifications to Operations to Get There
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Moonstake partners EMURGO, founding member of Cardano Protocol

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Moonstake, a blockchain technology company focused on staking technologies, and EMURGO, a global blockchain solutions provider & a founding entity of the Cardano protocol, have signed a partnership MoU. The partners aim to drive blockchain staking activity and accelerate industry adoption of staking within Cardano’s ecosystem. Read More: Huobi Global Drives......
CVentures, Commercial International Bank's Venture Capital Arm Invests in MagicCube's Contactless SoftPos Platform and its Differentiating Software Defined Trust
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Visa Invests in MagicCube’s Contactless SoftPOS & PIN Platform and Its Differentiating Software Defined Trust (SDT)

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MagicCube, the creator of the world’s only Software Trusted Execution Environment platform, today announced a strategic investment from Visa. Visa, which previously invested in the company, is renewing its support for MagicCube with this latest financing as the company continues to gain momentum in global partnerships and customers to bring......
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