Frank Schuil

Safello Assists Swedish Law Enforcement in Takedown of Dark Market Flugsvamp 2.0

Up until now cryptocurrency companies shied away from providing guidance to those who are entering the cryptocurrency market. Favoring automation to reduce overhead cost has been a must for many companies in the space to simply survive. With Safello Premium, we set out to change this.

Regulations around the buying and selling of cryptocurrency, while a necessity, create friction to innovation. Safello wants to reduce that friction by making it extremely simple to integrate buying and selling of cryptocurrency into new products and services. This was our motivation for creating the Safello Widget and Partner Program.

Our brokerage solution is now integrated into the Opera browser for Android. Users in Sweden, Norway and Denmark can now easily top up their wallets to buy ether on their mobile phones with our secure solution. This partnership is an important step in our strategy to drive wider adoption of

Game on at Safello!We set out to fill the gap of credit card purchases for Bitcoin in Europe after Circle’s departure. Today we announce European-wide credit card support for Mastercard and Visa with 3D Secure. In the past months we have quietly tested credit card support for GBP.

Safello announces the asset acquisition of BT Technology Inc., owner of the ICBIT peer-to-peer crypto futures exchanges platform founded in 2011 with over 12.000 customers and 11.6 million orders submitted. The acquisition is linked to Safello's recently relaunched platform that serves as the foundation for integrating the ICBIT

We just announced our second crowdfunding round on FundedBeMe and already hit 60% of our funding goal, a good time to look at our journey ahead. Video of Safello’s platform going forwardIn the campaign video we demonstrate how you can discover where others are spending their cryptocurrency and we

Safello turns into bank's biggest friend after recently closing a Proof-of-Concept with BarclaysBBVA today announced the finalists for its seventh global startup competition, BBVA Open Talent, which specializes in the financial technology sector, known as ‘fintech’. The competition is focused on innovative startups that are transforming financial services, or those

Safello First Bitcoin Exchange to Be Accepted to the ProgramAfter a selection process going from hundreds of applications down to the final 10 selected companies, Safello made the cut to join the Barclays Accelerator. Over the next 13 weeks, Safello will work closely with Techstars and Barclays mentors to hone

FundedByMe Partners With Safello To Do First Bitcoin Crowd Funding RoundBitcoin company Safello, established mid 2013 and known for its compliant approach to Bitcoin has partnered with leading crowdfunding platform FundedByMe to raise funds. Participants get the opportunity to join its astute list of investors including Nicolas Cary (CEO Blockchain)

Safello Serves Norwegian and Danish Customers With Local Payment MethodsSafello expands to Norway and Denmark with local bank transfers to make buying and selling of bitcoins more convenient in the Nordics. Norway in particular was plagued by a lack of good options after its largest exchange lost their bank accounts

Customers in the UK can now get their bitcoins through normal bank transfers (Faster Payments), BAC And CHAPS Safello announces its launch in the United Kingdom with support for Faster Payments, BAC and CHAPS. The company confirms it has established a local banking relationship to ensure the speedy delivery of

Local charities can use donation pages to launch a global fundraising campaign in minutesBitcoin donation pages create a new way of donating money by letting charities run free Bitcoin fundraising campaigns where 100% of the funds go to the cause. Donations show up in real-time in the transaction stream where

In February 2014 Safello announced its seed investment round of $600k USD lead by Bitcoin evangelist Erik Voorhees and joined by active Bitcoin investor Roger Ver, Blockchain.info CEO Nicolas Cary and prominent angel investors. Today Safello announces it has secured follow on funding from Bitcoin Opportunity Corp., the world's

Jumio Netverify added as customer identity verification technology to speed up onboarding processSafello announces the integration of Jumio's identity document verification service to speed up its onboarding process. Customers throughout Europe now have a quick and safe way to get into bitcoin. With 87 banks in 11 countries supported for