Fintech

20 stories about Fintech
Yoni Assia eToro

Is eToro really worth more than $10 billion?

17.03.21|Sophie Shulman
The Israeli fintech company, which officially announced its SPAC merger yesterday, generated gross revenues of $605 million in 2020 and believes it could reach $2.5 billion in 2025
דובי פרנסס Group 11

Dovi Frances' Group 11 announces new $120 million fintech fund

17.03.21|Meir Orbach
Similar to its prior funds, Group 11 Fund V will invest primarily in Silicon Valley-based financial technology software companies often related to Israel through their founding teams and R&D centers
סניף בנק בנקים תחרות ריכוזיות

Will Israel’s new Digital Bank manage to shake up the sector?

15.03.21|Irit Avisar
Amnon Shashua plans to disrupt the banking world by offering new tech and lower prices, but it may not be enough
רונן אסיא ו יוני אסיא מייסדי eToro

eToro heading for $10 billion SPAC offering in coming weeks

15.03.21|Meir Orbach
The Israeli fintech company is looking to capitalize on its surging valuation by going public on Wall Street via a special purpose acquisition company
Hasanat Dewan OurCrowd

OurCrowd appoints Hasanat Dewan as CIO for new global AI innovation center

10.03.21|James Spiro
Dewan plans to advance OurCrowd’s fintech platform and launch an ecosystem of innovation and education
מטה בנק לאומי יהודה הלוי 34 תל אביב

Bank Leumi and digitalization startup CallVU partner to cut down on paperwork

09.03.21|CTech
Digital signatures are part of an overall initiative at Bank Leumi to make banking more transparent and convenient
מייסדי Rewire סער יהלום גיא קשטן ו עדי בן דיין

Israel’s Rewire raises $20 million to expand financial services to migrant workers

02.03.21|Meir Orbach
Former Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang among investors in the company’s series B funding round
אורי לוין מנכ"ל דיסקונט כנס פינטק

“Our new product will be the Wolt of the banking world,” says Discount Bank CEO

24.02.21|Doron Broitman
Speaking at Calcalist’s Fintech 2021 Conference, Uri Levin addressed the massive changes taking place in the financial world, calling the revolution “unstoppable”
סטודנטים אוניברסיטת תל אביב אוניברסיטאות השכלה אקדמית

Which company raised $57 million and who is developing a solution to secure the booming DeFi market?

23.02.21|CTech
CTech Daily Roundup: Tel Aviv University establishes first Israeli AI and data science academic branch
שרית פירון פלאנק

Team8 expands its fintech portfolio leading $12 million series A of FundGuard

23.02.21|Meir Orbach
The company aims to use the new capital to increase its headcount by 75% over the coming year
מימין רונית פטר בן דוד ערן גולן מימון ישיר כנס פינטק

"When working with large numbers, Big Data is the name of the game"

23.02.21|CTech
Mimun Yashir executives Ronit Peter and Eran Golan talk about how companies have come to depend on user-generated data
ד"ר 5. ד"ר שלומית ווגמן רטנר רשות לאיסור הלבנת הון כנס פינטק

"The world of virtual assets will be divided into two lists, one white and one black"

23.02.21|CTech
Dr. Shlomit Wagman-Ratner, Director General at Israel Money Laundering and Terror Financing Prohibition Authority discusses cryptocurrency regulation in Israel
שחף ארליך מנכ"ל טריא כנס פינטק

"By 2035, at least 30% of mortgages will be issued by non-banking entities"

23.02.21|CTech
TARYA CEO Shahaf Erlich offers bold predictions at Calcalist's Fintech 2021 Conference
מימין מתן בר חן עמית איתן בק אריק פרישמן כנס פינטק

"Fintech is the best thing to happen to the banking system"

23.02.21|CTech
Arik Frishman, Head of the Digital and Data Division at Israel Discount Bank takes part in a panel on Fintech fundamentals along with Melio CEO Matan Bar, Tipalti CEO Chen Amit, and TLV Partner's Eitan Beck
שידור מלא כנס פינטק מימין אורי לוין רונית פטר שחף ארליך שלומית ווגמן

The Big Bang - Technology in the service of financial systems

23.02.21|CTech
Join the broadcast of Calcalist's Fintech conference in partnersthip with Discount Bank and PAYBOX
מימין מנכ”לית חשבונית ירוקה ליאור וילצ’ינסקי ומנהל פורטיסימו יובל כהן

Israeli fintech company Green Invoice secures first investment from Fortissimo Capital Management

22.02.21|Meir Orbach
The company, which has been bootstrapped for the past 10 years, aims to double its workforce and break into the European market
אודי זיו מנכ"ל Earnix

Earnix becomes Israeli tech’s newest unicorn with $75 million funding

21.02.21|Golan Hazani
The fintech company provides advanced AI-driven rating, pricing, and product personalization solutions for insurance and banking
מימין עודד זהבי מ מש פיימנטס חן עמית מ טיפלתי אורנית שנער מ סיטי ישראל ו דוד סוסנה מ פרסונטיקס

Massive funding, huge IPOs and sky-rocketing valuations: Welcome to the fintech gold rush

17.02.21|Meir Orbach
From September 2020 until January 2021, the local fintech sector recorded $1.4 billion in funding, making up 24% of all tech investments over that period
אייל שנער מנכ"ל Fundbox

Fundbox targeting $300 million raise at a $1.5 billion valuation via Wall Street SPAC

17.02.21|Sophie Shulman
The fintech company that blossomed during the Covid-19 crisis is in talks with a shelf company to join the growing list of Israeli firms going down the SPAC route
משמאל מייסד פרסוטנטיקס דיוויד סוסנה מייסד משותף דוד גוברין

Warburg Pincus LLC leads $75 million funding round in Israeli fintech company Personetics

16.02.21|Meir Orbach
Personetics offers a proprietary AI software platform to leading banks around the world, reaching more than 95 million personal banking customers and analyzing billions of transactions daily