December 3, 2024 @ 7:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

21X, which will reportedly launch the EU-regulated financial market infrastructure (FMI) in order to provide order matching, trading, settlement and registry services for tokenized money and securities, announced that it has signed a partnership with Chainlink, which claims to be the standard for onchain finance…. Read More

December 3, 2024 @ 7:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A report released by the UK’s business bank NatWest, in partnership with Oliver Wyman and supported by the Business Secretary, Jonathan Reynolds MP, has identified that the United Kingdom’s mid-market businesses are like the “unsung engine” of the nation’s economy. More than 13,000 of these… Read More

December 2, 2024 @ 10:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) has recently announced a considerable acceleration of its anti-money laundering (AML) regulatory guidelines for digital currency service providers. The Taiwanese authority has confirmed that it moved the registration deadline to November 30, 2024 from the initial January 1, 2025 date…. Read More

December 2, 2024 @ 10:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

JD Sports, the retailer of sports, fashion, and outdoor brands, has partnered with Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, to offer a flexible way to pay. This partnership brings Affirm’s pay-over-time options to shoppers purchasing brands such… Read More

December 2, 2024 @ 10:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

World ID Credentials are now reportedly being piloted in select countries including Chile, Colombia, Malaysia and South Korea. This secure and “anonymous” World ID feature increases global access to World Network and paves the way for “increased World ID utility.” It also enables consumers to… Read More

December 2, 2024 @ 10:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ADGM, the international financial centre (IFC) of Abu Dhabi, announced another quarter of steady growth, with a number of key achievements for the third quarter (Q3) of 2024 across various metrics. The results are said to underscore ADGM’s role in Abu Dhabi’s strategic goal to… Read More

December 2, 2024 @ 10:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Monochrome Asset Management is pleased to announce that it has expanded its custody solution by onboarding BitGo Trust Company, Inc to its list of crypto-asset custodians for the Monochrome Bitcoin ETF (IBTC) and Monochrome Ethereum ETF (IETH). This partnership reportedly aligns with Monochrome’s growth initiatives… Read More

December 2, 2024 @ 10:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hong Kong is reportedly planning to waive taxes on investment gains made from cryptocurrencies as well as other alternative assets for hedge funds, private equity funds and various family offices as the city-state aims to improve its attractiveness as a wealth management center. In a… Read More

December 2, 2024 @ 4:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mortgage rates are again in the spotlight as 2025 approaches, according to an update from real estate focused firm Zillow (Nasdaq: Z and ZG). Zillow predicts a more active real estate / property market and more buyers gaining the upper hand in 2025, but those… Read More

December 2, 2024 @ 4:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Consumers valued various special deals this Black Friday, as digital commerce revenue grew +14.6% compared to 2023, according to an update from Mastercard (NYSE: MA). As noted in the preliminary insights from Mastercard SpendingPulse, U.S. retail sales excluding automotive were “up +3.4% on Black Friday,… Read More

December 2, 2024 @ 12:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

The UK is expected to make some major tax changes in the coming year to ostensibly fill the budget “black hole.” The new Labour government has messaged its intent to levy a higher tax on capital gains and remove the so-called “non-dom” status, which allows citizens… Read More

December 2, 2024 @ 11:13 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

With Bitcoin soaring to nearly $100,000 and gaining unprecedented recognition on the global stage, the time has come for the UK to embrace the idea of a strategic Bitcoin reserve, deVere Group CEO Nigel Green said this week. There has been chatter in the US… Read More

December 2, 2024 @ 11:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SEI (NASDAQ:SEIC) announced that Arrow Global Group Limited, a European alternative asset manager specializing in private credit and real estate, selected SEI to support its fund administration, loan operations, and investor services for its private credit fund domiciled in Luxembourg. Reportedly ranked seven out of… Read More

December 2, 2024 @ 11:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Regtech ComplyAdvantage has shared 2025 predictions from professionals working at the Regtech company, which specializes in financial crime intelligence. As mentioned in the update from Regtech company ComplyAdvantage, the predictions span the future of sanctions during a Trump presidency, as well as corporate transparency/beneficial ownership… Read More

December 2, 2024 @ 10:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity holders of leading digital bank Revolut may soon have the opportunity to sell some of their shares. According to Bloomberg, former employees who have held shares for more than 2 years and have over $100,000 in value may be able to sell up to… Read More

December 2, 2024 @ 9:24 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Entrust and Onfido’s 2025 Identity Fraud Report chronicles how 2024 will be remembered as the year digital manipulation overtook the physical before showing us the trends that will dominate in 2025. The increased availability and ease of use of advanced technologies like AI lower barriers… Read More

December 2, 2024 @ 9:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

David Marcus, the current CEO and co-founder at Lightspark, which claims to be building the open Money Grid on Bitcoin (and previously who ran Payments/Crypto and Messenger at Meta) recently shared via social media just how the Facebook-led Libra(at one point called Diem) initiative was… Read More

December 2, 2024 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global Fintech Wise (LSE:WISE) has reportedly entered European remediation plans over AML (anti- money laundering) issues. The global money transfer company has been ordered by European regulatory authorities to initiate a formal remediation plan regarding issues with its AML controls. This, according to an update… Read More

December 2, 2024 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European Regtech Salv announced the launch of its Collaborative Scenario Library, a tool designed to help AML teams improve their transaction and customer monitoring in order to catch more financial crime. The Collaborative Scenario Library, which is a feature of the Salv Monitoring solution, is… Read More