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Advancing AML: Why ultimate beneficial owners must be properly identified
Understanding legal persons is important as, under the old version of R.24, financial institutions (FI) were responsible for finding the UBO of a company, whereas now the legal persons are obliged to have that information on record and make it available
July 21, 2022 • Joost van Houten
In March 2022, global regulatory watchdog the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) adopted amendments to Recommendation 24 (R.24) of its 40 Recommendations that govern global anti-money launderin...
Fintech, Insuretech and Crypto Funding and analysis - July 9-17
In both value and volume terms this week provided a big jump from the opening week with 33 deals achieving venture related financing, raising a total of US1.9bl.
July 18, 2022 • Roger Portnoy
Overview: I am included, on request insurtech coverage for the first time in this week's coverage. In both value and volume terms this week provided a big jump from the opening week with...
Why Crypto Needed This Crash, and What Happens Next for Crypto?
The crypto crash is in full swing, will Bitcoin and Ethereum ever recover, or are these cryptocurrencies in big trouble?
July 14, 2022 • Samuel Feldman
What happened to crypto? Crypto has seen a massive crash, starting in the first quarter of 2022. This has led multiple global crypto exchange platforms to pause all crypto exchanges. The ...
Culture: Build or Accept
Understanding how operations can either propel or torpedo your growth plans.
July 12, 2022 • Thomas Quinn
Every startup has a skeleton — the operational infrastructure that lies within. The only question is whether it will be a source of strength and stability that propels the organization to new h...
Insurtech must be taken seriously
Evaluations of the listed insurtech startups falling more and more over the past year, this has led some of the incumbents to self-doubt their insurtech efforts
July 10, 2022 • Matteo Carbone
We have seen the evaluations of the listed insurtech startups falling more and more over the past year. The HSCM Public InsurTech Index (HPIX)™ presented to the market 14 months ago is down by ...
Fintech Week 4 June 25th to July 1st, 2022 — Breaking down the Deals by Target Operating Model
Investors continue to show an appetite for a mixture of business models, and particularly in a sector like real estate, there is a strong belief that platforms can bring more benefits to all of the participants in the value chain
July 6, 2022 • Roger Portnoy
Overview: Funding I track from Crunchbase data this week showed total that US$650ml of total capital was deployed across debt and equity by various types of investors into the Fintech & ...
Fintech and Climate — Creating Resiliency Through the Application of Financial Services (Part One)
With more than $40bn deployed across more than 600 deals in 2021 and investment as a whole growing at five times the rate of the rest of the venture capital ecosystem over the past five years, interest in the space has never been higher.
July 5, 2022 • Kyle Perez
There’s no denying it — climate tech has made a serious comeback in the world of venture. With more than $40bn deployed across more than 600 deals in 2021 and investment as a whole growing at...
Fintech, crypto, and financial inclusion in Africa
Just as investment in financial inclusion in Africa was really ramping up, a market downturn threatens to slow progress. Or does it?
June 30, 2022 • Scott Onder
As the economic tide goes out, investors will see which of Africa’s fintech and crypto startups were swimming naked. More than half of all venture capital investment on the continent last year ...
Institutional DeFi
DeFi protocols are financial infrastructure. Like any technology infrastructure, they need applications built on top.
June 29, 2022 • Andrew Beal
In the Summer of 2018, I went to the British Grand Prix in Silverstone, UK. I didn’t know anything about Formula 1 before that race, but became an immediate fan and have been watching consisten...
Funding Trends & Themes — Week 6/18–6/25:
Weekly Fintech and Crypto Report
June 28, 2022 • Roger Portnoy
Overview Fintech investing never sleeps. In the past week, there was nearly US$1.5bl invested in 26 companies that I identified through Crunchbase that fit my particular definition of a fint...