StartEngine Reports Topping One Million Users

  StartEngine, one of the largest investment crowdfunding platforms in the US, is reporting that it has surpassed one million users. While this does not necessarily mean one million active investors, there should be a high correlation between registered users and investors. StartEngine also shares… Read More

Fintech Bookkeep Aims to Eliminate Manual Data Entry in Accounting Industry

Bookkeep, the “smarter” accounting automation platform, announced a $6.6 million seed+ round of funding led by Fin Capital, “with participation from existing investors TTV Capital, Argonautic Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Haymaker Ventures, and others.” This investment round brings Bookkeep’s total funding “to $10 million, following a… Read More

Bitcoin Adoption: Relai Builds with Checkout.com to Provide Instant BTC Purchases

Relai, the Swiss bitcoin app, announces its partnership with Checkout.com, the global payments provider. The move reportedly makes Relai the “first and only” bitcoin company “to offer instant transactions through a wallet that’s entirely owned by the customer.” The partnership “means that Relai users will… Read More

Change Extending European Crowdfunding Rules Compliance Published in EU Journal

As was previously reported, the compliance date for ECSPR, or European Crowdfunding Service Provider Regulation, has been extended from November 2022 to November 2023 for all EU member states. This means that platforms intending to offer securities crowdfunding across the EU now have another year… Read More

OurCrowd Partners with Indian JITO Angel Network

Global investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has partnered with India-based JITO Angel Network (JAN). According to multiple reports, the deal is for OurCrowd to provide access to investment opportunities for JITO’s members. OurCrowd is one of the largest digital VC platforms in the world that provides… Read More

Latin America: Bitso Tops 6 Million Users

Top crypto trading platform Bitso says it has surpassed 6 million users in Latin America while claiming it is in the midst of a growth spurt the fastest they have seen since its inception in 2014. Bitso states that in the past year, it has… Read More

UBS, Microsoft Announce Expansion of Cloud Partnership

UBS (SWX: UBSG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced a landmark expansion of their partnership “to accelerate UBS’s public cloud footprint over the next five years.” Through this transformational initiative, UBS plans “to have more than 50% of its applications, including critical workloads, running on Microsoft… Read More

More SIM Swap Scammers in the Slammer, Meanwhile Michael Terpin’s Lawsuit Against AT&T Gains Interesting Ally

This week, the US Department of Justice sentenced two individuals for a plot to steal crypto in a SIM Swap scam. SIM Swaps became a hot fraud ploy several years back as a way to steal digital assets – easily moved once stolen. Perps would… Read More

authID Introduces Human Factor Authentication with Launch of Verified 3.0

authID (Nasdaq: AUID), a provider of secure authentication solutions, announced the launch of Verified 3.0, its next-gen platform that “delivers Human Factor Authentication (HFA).” authID’s Verified platform binds strong, “unphishable”, passwordless authentication “with biometric identity, which offers our customers a streamlined path to zero trust… Read More

Ex- FBI Agent, BJ Kang, Joins Binance.US as Head of Investigations

Binance.US, the U.S. partner to the largest crypto exchange and “America’s home” to buy, sell, trade, convert and stake digital assets, announced the appointment of former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, BJ Kang, “as the company’s first Head of Investigations.” In this role, BJ will… Read More




Primer, Coinbase Forge Integration to Make Crypto a Standard Payment Method

Primer, which claims to be the world’s first automation platform for payments and commerce, and Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) have announced a strategic integration that “allows merchants in markets across the globe to add crypto as a standard method of payment at checkout.” Coinbase Commerce, Coinbase’s… Read More

Banco Santander, Forgepoint Capital to Advance Cybersecurity Innovation

Banco Santander (NYSE: SAN), which claims to be one of the largest banks in the world with over 157 million customers, and Forgepoint Capital, one of the “leading” venture capital firms focused on cybersecurity, announced a strategic alliance “to drive cybersecurity investment and innovation globally.”… Read More

Dragonfly Financial Technologies Introduces Fintech Integration Center

Dragonfly Financial Technologies Corp., a digital banking and treasury management FinTech, announced its FinTech Integration Center, which “provides banks with secure, seamless connections to leading FinTech applications.” With the FinTech Integration Center, bank customers “can interact in real time with their banks directly from within… Read More

CrossTower Still Interested in Buying Voyager Digital Assets, Lawyer Reveals

Virtual currency trading company CrossTower continues to pursue a potential deal to acquire the assets of the once-leading and now-bankrupt Voyager Digital Ltd. out of bankruptcy, a lawyer for CrossTower noted at a court hearing on Wednesday (October 19, 2022). John Ashmead, CrossTower’s lawyer, a… Read More

Fintech Automation Selects ForwardAI to Provide Access to Accounting Data for Financial Institutions

ForwardAI, a fintech providing aggregated access to accounting & business data and analysis, announced its partnership with FinTech Automation, a financial technology company that allows fintechs and traditional financial institutions (FIs) to offer various embedded finance and banking-as-a-service products. Through the partnership, FinTech Automation will… Read More

American Express, Cvent to Make Digital Payments More Seamless

American Express (NYSE: AXP) and Cvent (Nasdaq: CVT), a meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider, introduced enhanced features to the Cvent Event Marketing & Management platform that “further expand virtual payment capabilities, leveraging American Express’ integrated budget management and payment automation solutions.” The enhanced features… Read More

Manasquan Bank, ZSuite Tech to Introduce Digital Escrow Platform

ZSuite Tech, a financial technology company that powers financial institutions with unbound digital accounts encompassing escrow, subaccounting, sub-ledgering, FBO and trust accounts for commercial clients, announced Manasquan Bank successfully deployed ZEscrow, the industry’s “first” completely digital commercial escrow solution, and ZRent, an automated rent and… Read More

PayPal Rewards Program to Help Clients Save Money in Time for Holiday Season

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) announced the introduction of PayPal Rewards, a new unified rewards program that gives customers “an easy way to shop, earn, track, save, and redeem rewards and offers all in one place – their PayPal app.” PayPal Rewards “connects PayPal’s merchant… Read More

INX to List Advent Token, a Digital Security for Advent Entertainment

Next week, Advent Entertainment will pursue a digital security offering on INX  for a token tied to royalties. Advent aims to produce films, television shows, video games, and more. The initial token sale hopes to raise a minimum amount of $15 million. The tokens are… Read More

Chase Brings Payday Early to Secure Banking Clients

Chase, the U.S. consumer and commercial banking business of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), announced it is giving Secure Banking customers more flexibility “over how they manage their money by providing access to direct deposits up to two days early.” Beginning this month, Secure… Read More

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