Markets in Crypto Assets regulation (MiCA). What’s Good and What is Not So Good

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Last week at the Digital Commonwealth’s Mansion House Summit Series, Tom Kiddle, co-founder of Palisade – a digital asset custody firm, spoke about his opinion on MiCA. Palisade is regulated a regulated firm based in France. The European Union has approved MiCA, or Markets in Crypto Assets regulation. MiCA… Read More

 

 




Equifax Launches Merchant Data Network to Provide Visibility into the Financial Profiles of Small Businesses

Equifax (NYSE: EFX) has launched a new Merchant Data Network, an Equifax Cloud™-based data network to help provide greater visibility into the financial profiles of U.S small businesses. Designed to give lenders and service providers the “increased confidence they need to extend capital in a… Read More

Open Banking Limited Welcomes UK Open Banking Milestone

This past week, Open Banking Limited announced that the Competition and Markets Authority has officially confirmed the full completion of the final Roadmap for Open Banking. This milestone, building on the “substantial completion” announced in 2023, means that all nine banking providers mandated by the… Read More

As Fed Slashes Interest Rates by 50 bps, Raisin Still Touting Savings Rates over 5%

Fintech Raisin is a savings platform that streamlines the process of uncovering the best savings rates on the market. Yesterday, the US Federal Reserve slashed benchmark rates by 50 basis points – a larger move than many expected. Today, markets are rallying as observers believe… Read More

SEC: DeFi Platform Rari Capital Charged with Acting as Unregistered Broker, Misleading Investors

Rari Capital has settled charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which claims the firm engaged in unregistered crypto offerings, misleading investors and acting as an unregistered broker. This is another victory in the SEC’s ongoing battle with digital asset firms and offerings that… Read More

Bitcoin and Ethereum based Blockchain Network Hemi Reports $15 Million Investment Round

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Hemi Labs has announced a $15 million investment round to develop and launch the Hemi Network. Hemi is a modular blockchain network built on Bitcoin and Ethereum, “designed to deliver superior scaling, security, and interoperability.” The Hemi incentivized testnet is now live, and its mainnet… Read More

Brex Embedded Payment Solution to Unlock Global Payments Everywhere

Brex, the corporate card and spend management platform for startups and enterprises, announced Brex Embedded payments – a new API-driven payments solution that makes it easy for B2B software vendors to accelerate customer workflows with Brex virtual cards. By integrating with providers across categories like… Read More

Crypto Solution Provider Mesh Partners with Digital Assets Trading Platform CoinMENA

Mesh, the modern connectivity layer for crypto that makes transfers and account aggregation seamless, is thrilled to announce its strategic partnership with CoinMENA FZE, a digital assets trading platform in the Middle East. This collaboration aims to enhance digital asset transfer services by “allowing CoinMENA’s… Read More

Fintech Platform Capchase Teams Up with Financial Infrastucture Provider Stripe

 Capchase, a provider of revenue acceleration solutions for SaaS, is announcing a strategic partnership with Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. This partnership makes Capchase’s buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) solution “available within Stripe.” This marks Stripe’s first-ever B2B BNPL payment method “offering in the U.S. market.”… Read More

Oracle Cloud Service to Assist Banks with Reliably Identifying Financial Crime Risk

Oracle announced Oracle Financial Crime and Compliance (FCCM) Management Monitor Cloud Service. With the new solution banks, fintechs, and other financial services companies can “gain a holistic, centralized view of their FCCM efforts, enabling them to identify potential issues faster and, proactively manage risk to… Read More

Digital Assets Infrastructure Firm Zumo Launches Update to Help EU Companies Comply with MiCA Regulations

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Zumo, the B2B digital assets infrastructure, has launched a new out-of-box feature that enables crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) active in the European Union (EU) to comply with the upcoming sustainability requirements of the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation. MiCA was introduced to implement “uniform EU… Read More




Stablecoin Issuer Circle Announces Native USDC and Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) to Launch on Sui

USDC and CCTP are coming to Sui, according to an update from stablecoin issue Circle. Circle is pleased to confirm that “native USDC and Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) are coming soon to Sui.” Sui is a layer-1 (L1) blockchain that “offers fast, secure, scalable, and… Read More

Billing Platform Orb Announces $25M in Series B Funding

Orb, the modern billing platform reimagining how businesses monetize software, today announced $25M in Series B funding led by Mayfield, with participation “from existing investors Menlo Ventures, Greylock Partners, South Park Commons, Basecase, and Scribble Ventures and new investor Uncorrelated Ventures.” The new round brings… Read More

Regtech Sumsub Announces Integration of Travel Rule Solution with the Sygna Travel Rule Protocol to Assist Crypto Clients

Sumsub announces the integration of its Travel Rule solution with the Sygna Travel Rule protocol to allow its crypto and fintech clients to communicate with the Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) in the Sygna ecosystem, particularly with those in Japan and Taiwan. The added protocol… Read More

London’s Fintech TerraPay Teams Up with Vietnam Maritime Commercial Joint Stock Bank

Vietnam Maritime Commercial Joint Stock Bank (HoSE: MSB) has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with TerraPay, a global money movement company. This collaboration will bring digital payment solutions and data capabilities “to help MSB enhance efficiency and offer the best payment service experience to customers… Read More

GenAI Provider for Alternative Investment Management: BlueFlame AI Introduces Nexus

BlueFlame AI, a provider of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) solutions for the alternative investment management industry, announced the launch of Nexus. The innovative AI-powered solution is designed to transform the way firms “find, analyze, and report on the unstructured data contained within their various… Read More

WisdomTree Connect to Unlock Tokenized Real World Assets (RWAs) Access for More Users

WisdomTree, Inc. (NYSE: WT) has launched a new platform that aims to unlock tokenized real-world assets (RWA) access to users. The vision for WisdomTree Connect is to enable customers over time “to interact with any WisdomTree-issued token, in any wallet, across supported blockchains.” WisdomTree Connect marks… Read More

Fintech Market Pay Is Launching Generalized Point-of-Sale Purchase Solution

French fintech company Market Pay, a pan-European payment platform, is launching a new point of sale software payment solution. The solution stands out by its ability to “offer a single app available both for terminal and smartphone payments.” It therefore can be used for “all… Read More

US Federal Reserve Cuts Benchmark Interest Rates by 50 Basis Points: “Our Restrictive Policies Have Eased Inflation”

The US Federal Reserve, Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), has decided to cut benchmark rates by 50 basis points – the first cut in four years. The Fed said it is not on any pre-set course but felt its restrictive policies had the desired impact… Read More

House Financial Services Committee to Meet with SEC Chairman Gary Gensler on September 24th

In what may be a heated meeting of the House Financial Services Committee, SEC Chairman Gary Gensler is scheduled to testify next week in a hearing on the Oversight of the Securities and Exchange Commission. While the hearing memo nor prepared testimony is yet available,… Read More

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