SafeCharge Invests €10 Mln in German Fintech Group
…As part of the agreement between the companies, SafeCharge will acquire 5% equity of FinTech for roughly €10 million…The deal involves the banking subsidiary of FinTech. BIW Bank is a full service bank boasting over €1.3 billion of customer deposits…The platform which BIW Bank provides will be used by SafeCharge to begin offering a full banking suite to its client base.
2nd Study of FinTech in Germany / D.A.CH & CEE covering over 200 startups released
FinTech Forum has published the 2nd Study of FinTech in D.A.CH+CEE, covering 200+ startups, as well as The State of FinTech in D.A.CH / Europe – expert contributions from the region’s leading founders and investors. Key results from the study will be shared at the 5th FinTech Forum, on 22nd June in Vienna. A free excerpt is available for download: http://www.fintechforum.de/studie/
Italian Insurance Giant Will Invest €1.25bn in FinTech Startups
Europe’s third-largest insurer Generali has announced it will indirectly invest 1.25 billion euros in emerging financial technology by 2019.The Italian giant, sensing what chief executive Marco Greco called a “revolution,” will work with a group of venture capital funds including Ribbit Capital to support startups in mobile payments technology and data analysis among others, FT.com reports.
http://cointelegraph.com/news/114407/italian-insurance-giant-will-invest-125bn-in-fintech-startups
New Enterprise, Speedinvest unveil collaboration to target ‘best’ European start-ups
US-based venture capital specialist New Enterprise Associates and Austria’s Speedinvest have unveiled a collaboration which could see up to $55m going in the direction of “the best global companies to emerge from Europe’s burgeoning start-up scene”.
(Meet SpeedInvest at the 5th FinTech Forum event on 22nd June in Vienna! Check out the line up of presenting startups or register here http://www.fintechforum.de/english/vienna/ )
City veterans launch P2P investment fund
The launch of Rozes Invest, a fintech investment manager for marketplace lending, comes as the fledgling alternative finance sector has been attracting growing interest from institutional investors against a backdrop of curtailed bank capital availability.
Now Deutsche Bank also goes after Startups
Die Deutsche Bank eröffnet in Berlin ein Innovationszentrum. Weitere Deutsche Bank Labs sind in London und im Silicon Valley geplant. Jedes Jahr will das Kreditinstitut in allen drei Labors zusammen mehr als 500 Ideen bewerten. Am Ende sollen dann Produkte stehen, die die Bank einsetzen kann.
http://www.deutsche-startups.de/2015/06/05/auch-die-deutsche-bank-steht-nun-auf-gruender/
Wirecard and Cuscal Announce Australian Market Cooperation
Wirecard Group, with its New Zealand subsidiary GFG Group Limited, today announced that Cuscal Limited, one of Australia’s leading payment services companies, has selected Wirecard as solution partner for its next generation acquiring and issuing processing business.
The smart banking ideas of German FinTech Startups
Die einen sind reich, die anderen sexy. Was sich gerade in der Bankenbranche abspielt, erinnert an den Sugar-Daddy, der sich für den eigenen Glanz und das Vergnügen eine attraktive und sehr viel jüngere Partnerin sucht. Etablierte Kreditinstitute gehen reihenweise Kooperationen mit sogenannten Fintechs ein, jenen neu gegründeten Unternehmen, die mit oft sehr kundennahen Lösungen die Finanzbranche verändern wollen.
http://www.welt.de/finanzen/article141783410/Die-smarten-Banking-Ideen-deutscher-Start-ups.html
Beirat für Cash Payment Solutions GmbH – Barzahlen.de
Die Cash Payment Solutions GmbH – Barzahlen.de ruft einen aus erfahrenen Industrieexperten bestehenden Beirat ins Leben und stärkt damit seine Position als führendes Finanztechnologieunternehmen in verschiedenen Branchen. Im Beirat ist Bernd M. Fieseler, der von 2001 bis 2011 als Geschäftsführendes Vorstandsmitglied des Deutschen Sparkassen- und Giroverbandes fungierte.
http://www.unitednetworker.com/beirat-fuer-cash-payment-solutions-gmbh-barzahlen/
AndersGründer – Pitch in Frankfurt am Main
Wir suchen neue Teilnehmer für unser Programm AndersGründer, gefördert durch die KfW Stiftung, im Social Impact Lab in Frankfurt. Social Start Ups erhalten umfangreiche Unterstützung bei ihrer Gründung: individuelles Coaching und Beratung, themenspezifische Qualifizierung, Zugang zu einschlägigen Netzwerken und einen Co-Working Arbeitsplatz im neuen social impact lab Frankfurt, dem ersten Inkubator für Social Start Ups im Raum Rhein Main.
http://socialimpact.eu/EN/events/andersgruender-pitch-in-frankfurt-am-main-1536
Gartner is Looking for Cool Financial Services
Sure, it’s easy to find those cool fintech vendors. Gartner publishes a lot of Cool Vendor Reports. And, you should definitely read them. But, the proof is in the execution. How does a financial services organization – a bank, insurance company – use digital technologies in innovative ways to deliver products and services to their customers, to generate new revenue for the organization?
http://blogs.gartner.com/stessa-cohen/gartner-is-looking-for-cool-financial-services/
Five things you need to know about marketplace lending
Marketplace lending – the new buzzword for peer-to-peer lending – is one of the fastest growing areas in fintech. Big banks are starting to muscle in on the area, and the sector has evolved from individuals who sourced loans from other individuals, into platforms that secure funding from institutions in an online marketplace for loans.
http://thetally.efinancialnews.com/2015/05/five-things-need-know-marketplace-lending/
Die Kunst, aus Informationen Bilder zu machen
Auf einem Fintech-Event verwandelt eine Zeichnerin Fachvorträge in Grafiken. Ihr Anblick bringt die Redner in Verlegenheit, denn sie zeigen: Es geht auch einfach.