Scalable Capital Enters Italy, Moojo Secures Pre-Seed Funding; Commerzbank Seeks Crypto Custody License

This week on Finovate World we’re highlighting a few of the fintech information from Germany.

Scalable Capital, a digital funding platform primarily based in Germany, introduced the launch of its neo-broker and new cryptocurrency providing Scalable Crypto within the Italian market. The brand new resolution, launched in December, will allow Italian traders to purchase inventory, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), standard cryptocurrencies, in addition to arrange financial savings plans without cost. The corporate’s Scalable Dealer providing will give traders entry to greater than 6,000 worldwide shares, with all trades routed by means of regulated European exchanges to keep away from FX charges. Scalable Dealer additionally offers entry to greater than 1,500 ETFs and greater than 1,700 mutual funds. Moreover, Scalable Dealer is on the market in several value configurations: a free model with commission-free financial savings plans and buying and selling for shares and ETFs that prices a price of EUR 0.99 for transactions in different devices, and a “Prime” model with an extra buying and selling flat price enabling limitless trades for a month-to-month price of EUR 2.99.

Scalable Crypto permits traders to purchase and promote widespread cryptocurrencies, that are held as securities within the shopper’s brokerage account. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and XRP are among the many cryptocurrencies out there for buying and selling, every of which relies on exchange-traded crypto merchandise (ETPs) for simple and safe transactions on regulated exchanges.

“The web dealer with financial savings plans and crypto is only the start,” Scalable Capital founder and co-CEO Erik Podzuweit mentioned. “Our objective is to introduce our full funding platform to the Italian market. We are going to make much more providers out there to our Italian purchasers, akin to our main robo-advisor.”

Scalable Capital made its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2016 in London.

Moojo, a brand new startup that helps freelancers, creators, and gig economic system staff enhance their invoicing course of and receives a commission sooner, introduced $2 million in seed funding this week. The spherical included participation from APX, Helvetia Enterprise Fund, MS&AD, neoteq Ventures, and Pink Swan Ventures

Along with its on the spot funds and invoicing options, Moojo plans to introduce insurance coverage and lending merchandise sooner or later. The corporate has partnered with Hiscox to facilitate the event of insurance coverage merchandise.

“The crew and their strategy to embed insurance coverage into their providing has satisfied us,” Markus Niederreiner, CEO of Hiscox Germany, mentioned. “We’re delighted to be Moojo’s insurance coverage accomplice and co-create the next-gen of options for the creator and the freelancer economic system. We strongly imagine in the best way Moojo tailors and builds options for the neighborhood: built-in into their clients’ lives.”

Moojo was based in 2021 by Amir Djouadi, Christian Engnath, and Utena Treves. The corporate is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Germany’s second largest listed financial institution Commerzbank introduced late this week that it’s trying to enter the cryptocurrency house. The corporate is the nation’s first main monetary establishment to hunt a license that will allow it to supply cryptocurrency safekeeping providers, in addition to create its personal cryptocurrency custody resolution.

Germany’s new licensing coverage for cryptocurrency providers went into impact in 2020 and is designed to encourage extra regulated monetary corporations to enter the cryptocurrency market. Commerzbank’s license utility seems a yr after the establishment shaped a partnership with Deutsche Börse and Fintech 360X to develop a digital asset buying and selling platform.

Acknowledging the function of the partnership, Commerzbank spokesperson Bernd Reh added that the financial institution is “pursuing our personal digital asset technique and are additionally planning our personal choices for our clients within the coming years.” Reh famous that the deliberate providing is geared initially towards institutional clients.

BaFin, the Germany’s Federal Monetary Supervisory Authority, has to this point authorized 4 of the 25 purposes it has acquired from establishments in search of crypto custodian standing.

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