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Payments Firm XanPool Raises $27M in Funding Round Led by Valar Ventures
XanPool plans to transform its network to become more like the traditional banking world’s SWIFT network, but compatible with cryptocurrency and e-wallets.
Hong Kong based payments infrastructure firm XanPool has raised $27 million in a Series A funding round led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, the company announced Friday.
- Other participating investors included CMT Digital and the founder and chairman of Wise, formerly TransferWise, Taavet Hinrikus.
- XanPool describes itself as a payments and liquidity network similar to Mastercard or Visa, but rather than having a closed network of banks as partners, XanPool has an open network of individuals and businesses whose idle capital is used to settle cross-currency and cryptocurrency transactions
- Jeffery Liu, CEO at XanPool, which currently operates in over 13 countries in the Asia Pacific region, said the firm’s network will eventually look more similar to the SWIFT network, since XanPool earns fees based on the communication that its software facilitates.
- The SWIFT network is a messaging network used by many banks and financial institutions to send and receive money and information around the globe.
- “But unlike SWIFT, XanPool is compatible with modern payment solutions like cryptocurrency, fast-payments and e-wallets. You can expect more innovation from XanPool in this direction,” said Liu.
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Tanzeel Akhtar
Tanzeel Akhtar has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Forbes Africa, Financial Times, The Street, Citywire, Investing.com, Euromoney, Yahoo! Finance, Benzinga, Kitco News, African Business Magazine, Hedge Week, Campden Family Office, Modern Investor, Spear's Wealth Management Magazine, Global Investor, ETF.com, ETF Stream, CIO UK, Funds Global Asia, Portfolio Institutional, Interactive Investor, Bitcoin Magazine, CryptoNews.com, Bitcoin.com, The Local, The Next Web, Mining Journal, Money Marketing, Marketing Week and more. Tanzeel trained as a foreign correspondent at the University of Helsinki, Finland and newspaper journalist at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She holds a BA (Honours) in English Literature from the Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and completed a semester abroad as an ERASMUS student at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She is NCTJ Qualified - Media Law, Public Administration and passed the Shorthand 100WPM with distinction. She does not currently hold value in any digital currencies or projects.
