September 27, 2024 @ 2:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AMA-AMBIOGEO, a mining Joint Venture (JV) with a focus on sustainable resource management, announces the tokenization of $4.6 billion in gold reserves, using Tokeny’s technology to transform previously inaccessible real-world assets (RWA) into tradable and compliant digital securities. The JV between AMA Resources and AMBIOGEO… Read More

September 27, 2024 @ 2:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Checkout.com, a digital payments company, announced several new product updates at its global enterprise customer event, Thrive, held in Barcelona, Spain. The company offers a suite of modular payment solutions “that help businesses reduce the complexity and cost of payment processing while increasing performance and… Read More

September 27, 2024 @ 2:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TRM Labs, a key player focused on blockchain intelligence, announced that it is the “first” blockchain intelligence company to achieve FedRAMP Moderate authorization. TRM Labs and Palantir have partnered “through Palantir’s FedStart Program to accelerate TRM Labs’ ability to support a broader range of federal… Read More

September 27, 2024 @ 2:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

eToro, the trading and investing platform, has entered into an agreement to acquire the Australian investing app Spaceship in a deal worth up to $80 million AUD. The acquisition will strengthen eToro’s footprint in “a key market for the business while also broadening its product… Read More

September 27, 2024 @ 10:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PensionBee has responded to the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) Pension Investment Review, emphasizing the importance of “keeping savers’ best interests at the forefront of any potential changes in the pensions market.” PensionBee believes that consolidation in the Defined Contribution (DC) market may offer… Read More

September 27, 2024 @ 9:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New research released by KPMG provides insight into whether consumers would reduce some of the buying and saving behaviors that have become more prevalent during the cost of living crisis, if they had more disposable income available to spend. KPMG UK’s Consumer Pulse survey gauged… Read More

September 27, 2024 @ 9:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network, and shopping assistant, will launch its flexible payment methods on Adyen’s (ADYEN:AMS) physical payment terminals across Europe, North America, and Australia. Adyen, which claims to be the financial technology platform of choice for businesses, is the first global PSP to… Read More

September 27, 2024 @ 9:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On September 26, 2024, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Russia-based exchange Cryptex and Sergey Sergeevich Ivanov (a.k.a. UAPS a.k.a TALEON), who facilitated laundering “for fraud shops, ransomware payments, darknet markets, and other criminal actors.” Following these developments,… Read More

September 27, 2024 @ 9:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Multitude Bank p.l.c., a core subsidiary of the Nordic-born listed Fintech, Multitude Group, offers digital lending and online banking services to consumers and SMEs across Europe. The Bank has now partnered with Salt Edge, an open banking platform, with “a goal to enable instant loan… Read More

September 27, 2024 @ 9:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Building on its earlier participation in JPM Coin Systems through Onyx by JP Morgan, the firm’s blockchain business unit, First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) completed its pilot using Programmable Payments. Programmability is the ability of the system “to execute specific tasks based on defined instructions.”… Read More

September 27, 2024 @ 6:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, has reportedly opened its new flagship office in Toronto. The expansion reflects Toronto’s growth as the fourth-largest market “for tech talent in North America and reinforces Stripe’s commitment to Canada.” Stripe serves fast-growing Canadian startups and platforms “such… Read More

September 26, 2024 @ 5:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CAIS, the alternative investment platform for independent financial advisors, announced it has expanded its offerings of alternative investment strategies from leading alternative investment managers, deepening the firm’s commitment to making alternative investment products more accessible to wealth management. New managers that have introduced strategies “on… Read More

September 26, 2024 @ 3:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nu Asset Management, Nubank’s (NYSE: NU) investment fund manager, announces the launch of Nu Ibovespa B3 BR+ (NBOV11), the first ETF on the market indexed to Ibovespa B3 BR+. The new fund is now available for trading on B3. The Ibovespa B3 BR+ is a… Read More

September 26, 2024 @ 3:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainalysis recently shared key insights from its 2024 Geography of Cryptocurrency Report. According to the Chainalysis research report, the MENA region ranks as the seventh-largest crypto market globally in 2024, with “an estimated $338.7 billion in on-chain value received between July 2023 and June 2024,… Read More

September 26, 2024 @ 9:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK economy is said to be at a crossroads with weaker than expected growth to leave less room for the Chancellor in the Autumn Budget. This, according to an update from KPMG. According to KPMG in the UK, this weaker growth is set “to… Read More

September 26, 2024 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stablecoins are tokens whose values are pegged to other assets, like commodities or fiat currencies, to stabilize their prices. This, according to a report from CoinGecko. The research report from CoinGecko explains that “by maintaining a peg to a specific fiat currency, asset, or commodity,… Read More

September 26, 2024 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As summer comes to a close and the nights draw in, new research from NatWest Premier reveals that half (50%) of Brits admit “to overspending, with fear-of-missing-out being the primary driver for 25%.” Furthermore, around one in five agree “that the pressure to keep up… Read More

September 26, 2024 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitpanda and Blockpit are teaming up again to offer Italian Bitpanda users discounted licences and expert advice to help you stay on top of regulation. Using Blockpit can help you understand how “to save when doing your crypto taxes.” Bitpanda has shared key insights in… Read More

September 26, 2024 @ 7:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing €220 million in financing to Nexi Group, Europe’s largest PayTech company, to support innovation in the digital payments sector. The agreement was announced in Milano “by EIB Vice-President Gelsomina Vigliotti and Nexi Group CFO Bernardo Mingrone.” Nexi will… Read More

September 25, 2024 @ 7:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and Treasury released a report this past week summarising research to date on central bank digital currency (CBDC) and how this has informed the RBA and Treasury’s current assessment of CBDC issues in Australia. The report also sets out… Read More