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Wealthsimple receives conditional approval from regulators to test crypto platform

Isabelle Kirkwood August 7, 2020

Toronto-based FinTech startup Wealthsimple has received conditional approval from the Canadian Securities Administrators’…

Caitlin Hotchkiss August 5, 2020

Welcome to the FinTech Times, a weekly newsletter covering the biggest FinTech news from around the globe. If you want to read…

Isabelle Kirkwood August 4, 2020

Montreal-based Holt FinTech Accelerator has revealed the startups part of its 2020 cohort. The third in its history, the accelerator…

Meagan Simpson July 29, 2020

Financial Data Exchange (FDX), a United States-based non-profit organization dedicated to developing an industry standard for…

Isabelle Kirkwood July 29, 2020

New Zealand-domiciled small business accounting platform Xero has named its existing Toronto office as the company’s North…

Josh Scott July 28, 2020

Vancouver FinTech startup Mogo has launched MogoSpend, a free, new, prepaid Visa-based digital spending account that encourages…

Meagan Simpson July 28, 2020

Wingocard, a new Montreal-based startup focused on personal finance for teens, has closed a $2 million seed round led by Diagram…

Caitlin Hotchkiss July 27, 2020

Welcome to the FinTech Times, a weekly newsletter covering the biggest FinTech news from around the globe. If you want to read…

Josh Scott July 23, 2020

The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has developed its own cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) computing platform upon which…

Caitlin Hotchkiss July 22, 2020

Welcome to the FinTech Times, a weekly newsletter covering the biggest FinTech news from around the globe. If you want to read…

Meagan Simpson July 21, 2020

Coinsquare co-founders Cole Diamond (CEO) and Virgile Rostand (president) have agreed to step down from the crypto-trading…

Isabelle Kirkwood July 20, 2020

Montreal-based personal finance FinTech startup Mylo has rebranded to Moka and officially launched in France as part of its…

Meagan Simpson July 17, 2020

The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has alleged that Toronto-based crypto trading platform Coinsquare manipulated the market,…

Isabelle Kirkwood July 16, 2020

Three Canadian startups have announced fresh funding rounds to fuel their growth. Here’s the latest on who raised how much,…

Meagan Simpson July 15, 2020

Willful, which provides online will and estate planning, has raised $800,000 in seed financing. The round was led by Montreal-based…