{"id":7574,"date":"2017-03-10T13:29:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T13:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=7574"},"modified":"2018-08-08T05:43:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T05:43:31","slug":"blender-secures-e-money-license-in-lithuania-paving-way-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/blender-secures-e-money-license-in-lithuania-paving-way-to-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"BLender secures E-Money license in Lithuania, paving way to Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLender, an Israeli-based lending platform active in Italy, Israel and Lithuania, is planning to expand its operations to two additional Baltic countries and Southeast Asia this year. BLender funds loans through peer-to-peer, balance sheet and partner institutions, whichever is appropriate for the particular circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>BLender secured an e-money license from the Central Bank of the Republic of Lithuania on February 14, 2017. The license allows BLender:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to issue and distribute e-money<\/li>\n<li>maintain payment account operations (i.e. cash deposits\/withdrawals and credit card payments)<\/li>\n<li>complete money remittances<\/li>\n<li>perform digital transfers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since Lithuania is a member of the European Union, the license applies to the other 27 EU member states. 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BLender funds loans through peer-to-peer, balance sheet and partner institutions, whichever is appropriate for the particular circumstances. BLender secured an e-money license from the Central Bank of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,308],"tags":[400,129,70],"class_list":["post-7574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-fintech","category-lithuania","tag-money-transfers","tag-onlinelending","tag-payments","bulletin_edition-fintech-march-2017","b_post_type-the-fintech-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7575,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7574\/revisions\/7575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}