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Mogo Launches First Bitcoin Cashback Mortgage

Mogo has extended its unique bitcoin cashback rewards program – which currently applies to the Mogo Visa Platinum Prepaid Card and digital spending account – to include MogoMortgage. [Read more…] about Mogo Launches First Bitcoin Cashback Mortgage

The FinTech Station, a Finance Montréal initiative, and Highline Beta are teaming up to launch the Station FinTech Montréal Accelerator, a pan-Canadian startup acceleration program based in Montréal. [Read more…] about Montréal FinTech Station Launches Acceleration program With Highline Beta

Vancouver fintech Mogo (TSX:MOGO) is acquiring Montreal’s Moka Financial Technologies, one of Canada’s leading saving and investing apps, in an all-stock transaction. [Read more…] about Mogo Enters Wealth Management Space With Acquisition Of Moka

Quadient announced today that it is acquiring Software as a Service (SaaS) platform Beanworks for approximately $105 million. [Read more…] about Vancouver’s Beanworks Acquired By Quadient For $105 Million

Miami-based fintech Milo will now provide U.S. home loans to Canadian citizens so they can purchase or refinance their U.S. investment properties. [Read more…] about Milo Now Provides U.S. Home Loans to Canadian Nationals

Financeit has entered into a new strategic consumer lending agreement with the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) to solidify its position as Canada’s leading point-of-sale financing provider. [Read more…] about Buy-now-pay-later Leader Financeit Strikes $500 Millon Partnership With RBC

Orlando’s Fattmerchant has made a strategic, majority investment in Ottawa-based subscription and billing payments platform, Fusebill. [Read more…] about Fusebill Receives Strategic Investment from US Payment Tech Provider

Brim Financial announced today the close of a $25 million Series B, co-led by Desjardins Group and US-based EPIC Ventures with strong participation from Canadian and US based investors including goeasy, White Owl and Impression Ventures. [Read more…] about Brim Financial Raises $25 Million To Transform The Way People Bank

Canadian securities regulators have cleared the launch of the Purpose Bitcoin ETF, making it the first to gain regulatory approval in North America.

The fund from Purpose Investments is designed to provide investors with exposure to the world’s largest cryptocurrency by investing directly in physically settled Bitcoin. [Read more…] about North America’s First Bitcoin ETF Gets Green Light in Canada

Vancouver’s Fraction Technologies has raised $289 million in a combination of equity and debt financing from Impression Ventures, Primetime Partners, Global Founders Capital, and Panache Ventures, among others. [Read more…] about Fraction Raises $289 Million, Takes Aim At Reverse Mortgages