UK fintech Wise restricts payments amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Following sanctions, the UK fintech Wise blocked money transfers to Russia. On the other hand, and even if it’s always harder, the company is still...
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Russia's Ukraine invasion and the fintech industry
Lucinda Shen writes about the impact the conflict is having on the fintech space - especially because many CEOs, founders, investors and crypto exe...
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News: Russia removed from Swift as fintech community steps up for Ukraine
Benjamin Ensor and Sim Rai are joined by Yann Ranchere (Anthemis), Clare Gambardella (Zopa) and Ali Niknam (Bunq) to discuss how the fintech commun...
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Ukraine Is Buying Bulletproof Vests and Night-Vision Goggles Using Crypto
As also FinTech Weekly reported, Ukraine managed to collect over $60 million in crypto donations. The funds were spent not only in food and fuel, b...
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Sanctioned Russian billionaires looking to sell fintech bets
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine is indirectly affecting companies around the world: FIBR Tech and ANNA Money, two UK-based fintech companie...
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5 reasons why Ukraine’s fintech sector is growing despite war
Ukrainian fintech companies proved to be extremely resilient. With a tradition of valuable fintech products and firms, the industry didn’t stop wor...
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FinTech Banks Fill SME Funding Gap Created by Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Lithuania faces two major issues: the Russia-Ukraine conflict – especially because of its borders, and SME financing gap – since the few traditiona...
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Crypto Donations Pour in After Ukraine Government Asks for Bitcoin and Ether — $17 Million Raised so Far
After the tweets of the Ukrainian government official account, the crypto community replied to their requests donating over $17 million in cryptocu...
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