Fireblocks, a Digital Asset Service Provider, to Receive C4 Certification

Fireblocks, an “easy-to-use” platform to create innovative products on the blockchain and manage day-to-day crypto operations, announced that it has become the first company to have its digital asset infrastructure system “certified by the CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4) as a CryptoCurrency Security Standard (CCSS) Level… Read More

Secure Trust Bank, Mastercard to Offer Customers Option to Repay Retail Finance

Secure Trust Bank has partnered with Mastercard (NYSE: MA) in order to “offer customers more choice and convenience through open banking to repay retail finance.” Open banking empowers consumers “to access, use and benefit from their financial data, and to initiate payments between any of… Read More

EY, TaxBit to Support Tax Reporting Requirements for Digital Assets

The EY organization announced an alliance between TaxBit, a tax and accounting technology provider for cryptocurrency and other digital assets (e.g., non-fungible tokens (NFTs)), and Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) “to help organizations meet tax reporting requirements for digital assets.” Regulators are starting “to… Read More

THORChain Integrates with Trust Wallet to Accelerate Adoption of Crypto Self-Custody

THORChain, a non-custodial decentralized native asset protocol that enables wallets, decentralized exchanges (DEXs), and users to seamlessly transfer their digital assets across blockchains, has completed its integration with Trust Wallet, a self-custodial and multi-chain wallet provider. This integration “unlocks decentralized multichain swaps for the more… Read More

Banking as a Service (BaaS) Allows Finance Companies to Address Growing Client Requirements: Report

With embedded finance set to become a “quintessential” component of many industries, smaller businesses and individuals can now “have greater access to financial services than ever before owing to banking-as-a-service (BaaS),” according to an update from GlobalData. With the right partners and systems in place,… Read More

CEPRES to Address Challenges for LPs, GPs in Private Equity Fundraising

CEPRES, which claims to be the leader in private market data and investment technology,  announced new solutions to better handle today’s challenges in private market fundraising for both limited partners (LPs) and general partners (GPs). CEPRES Fund Screener, part of the CEPRES Due Diligence suite,… Read More

ConsenSys, PayPal to Allow Clients to Buy Crypto-Assets in MetaMask

ConsenSys, a Web3 company, announced that U.S. MetaMask users will be able to purchase crypto (ETH) from “within the app” using PayPal. MetaMask will reportedly “be the first Web3 wallet to leverage PayPal to drive more successful on-ramp transactions.” Initially available to select PayPal users… Read More

Digital Asset Firm Gemini Launches Operations in Greece, Bulgaria

Digital asset firm Gemini says it’s pleased to announce that individuals and institutions in Greece and Bulgaria can now “open a Gemini account to deposit, trade, and custody over 100 cryptocurrencies.” Consumers in these additional two markets “can securely access Gemini’s website or mobile app… Read More

Digital Banking: UK’s Starling Bank to Launch Fixed Saver Product

Starling Bank is rolling out its first savings product offering “a guaranteed return of 3.25% over one year on balances of £2,000 or more.” The new Starling 1-Year Fixed Saver is “built seamlessly into the Starling app for maximum visibility and control.” Starling personal current… Read More

Bpifrance Selects Thought Machine to Help Provide Financing to SMEs in France

Thought Machine, the cloud-native banking technology company, announced that Bpifrance, the French public investment bank, is “using Thought Machine’s cloud-native core banking platform, Vault Core.” Bpifrance claims it is “the first bank in France to deploy Thought Machine’s modern cloud-native core banking platform, using Vault… Read More




Accenture Advances AI Research as Member of Corporate Affiliate Program at Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) announced its membership in the Corporate Affiliate Program of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), an organization dedicated to “guiding and building the future of artificial intelligence (AI).” Lan Guan, global lead of Cloud First Data & AI at Accenture,… Read More

Pink Paper Joins Neo Global Development (NGD) EcoBoost Program

Neo Global Development (NGD) has accepted Pink Paper, ‘a decentralized content publishing platform, into the EcoBoost program.” Through EcoBoost, Neo will “provide Pink Paper with support and incubation opportunities to help the project enter the market.” EcoBoost is “a business incubation program focused on building… Read More

Digital Assets: Badger Finance, DYDX Exchange, Ampleforth, Kusama, Immutable X, Mina Protocol, Others Now on Okcoin

Digital asset firm Okcoin reveals that users can can now buy 10 additional tokens via their crypto trading platform – Badger Finance (BADGER), DYDX Exchange (DYDX), Ampleforth (FORTH), Kusama (KSM), Immutable X (IMX), Mask Network (MASK), Mina Protocol (MINA), Numeraire (NMR), Storj (STORJ), and 0x… Read More

Global Quantum Intelligence, a Business Intelligence Firm, Launches Operations

Global Quantum Intelligence (GQI), a market and business intelligence firm steeped in quantum technology experience and solely dedicated to this sector, has just launched and claims it is already “serving major vendors and users, as well as governments and investors keen on gathering authoritative intelligence… Read More

Former SEC Enforcement Attorney: Following FTX Debacle, the SEC Won’t Want to be Late to the Party Again

  The trifecta of legal action against Sam Bankman-Fried and the failure of FTX blossomed this past week as the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York filed criminal charges against Bankman-Fried. These charges were joined by civil charges filed by both the… Read More

Invesdor Shares Additional Information on Merger with Oneplanetcrowd

Invesdor, a securities crowdfunding platform that aims to emerge as the dominant online capital formation company in Europe, has distributed a few new details on its pending merger with the Netherlands-based Oneplanetcrowd. As was reported last month, Invesdor Group announced the merger of the two… Read More

London Fintech Updraft Secures £108M in Debt, Equity to Support Business Growth

Financial habit forming platform, Updraft, announces its latest investment round, raising another £108 million in equity and debt “to power its ambitious growth strategy and deliver savings to its fast-growing user base of 300k members.” The senior debt funding round of £100 million was “led… Read More

Euroclear to Acquire London based Goji, a Private Funds Fintech

Euroclear is pleased to announce its acquisition of Goji, a London-based provider of digital access and technology-enabled solutions to private markets, subject to regulatory approvals. Private market assets are currently “valued at $9.8 trillion and are expected to grow to $14.4 trillion by 2025.” This… Read More

STP Investment Services Acquires Wealth Advisory Fintech WealthSite

STP Investment Services (STP), a global, technology-enabled, end-to-end investment operations service provider, announced it has acquired WealthSite, a firm that provides “a fully integrated and highly customized accounting, portfolio management, reporting and analytics platform to single and multi-family offices, traditional wealth advisory firms and money… Read More

Fintech Firm FIS’ Incoming CEO, Board Commence Review to Strengthen Performance, Drive Value Creation

FIS (NYSE: FIS), which claims to be a global leader in financial services technology, announced that its incoming Chief Executive Officer and Board of Directors have initiated a comprehensive “assessment of the company’s strategy, businesses, operations and structure with the goal of positioning the Company… Read More

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