The Next Web

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In recent years we’ve been continually impressed with the small Baltic country of Estonia, which has been a frontrunner in many areas within digital solutions and tech innovation, such as e-residency, digital policies, and national cryptocurrencies. What’s going on in Latvia?

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The Verge

JANUARY 20, 2021

This broke the EU’s Digital Single Market rules which prohibit those types of barriers. The European Commission says the geo-blocking was to prevent games being activated outside Czechia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Five publishers were fined in total. Focus Home was fined almost €2.9

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Instamojo: marketplace to sell your digital creations with just one click. Hunie: community for designers to help them get feedback from their peers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The funding will be used to enter other Southeast Asian markets, including Indonesia and the Philippines, and introduce new products, like free credit score and insurance offers, digital discount coupons and mobile wallet cashbacks. Jeff currently claims more than 300,000 users in Vietnam.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Part of the funding will be used to increase Jeff’s team from about 15 people now to more than 40 employees for its offices in Latvia and Southeast Asia. Before launching Jeff, Niparts was CEO of Spain for Digital Finance International, a fintech company that is part of the Finstar Financial Group.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

But compared with traditional banks, it was the seventh-largest digital financial services provider in that area. Nigerian digital bank Carbon hit $240M in payments processed last year, up 89% from 2019. But its broader vision is not to be just a digital bank but also a commercial bank. FairMoney is on a similar path, as well.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

This Friday at its annual Digital Day , the European Commission will be launching a “legislative instrument” called the EU Startup Nations Standard (SNS). Now, before you think I’m about to bore you to death, you might like to know that the SNS is a huge political initiative.

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