Omar Faridi

Fintech Airwallex’s Cross-Border Payments Tech to Enhance McLaren Racing’s Financial Operations

Airwallex, a global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, today revealed how its global financial technology has improved McLaren Racing’s financial operations throughout the 2024 Formula 1 season. Prior to this partnership, McLaren’s international payments run “consisted of 30 payments made one at a… Read More

Fireblocks Launches Integration with Lido to Enable Access to Liquid Staking Protocol and stETH Token

In response to growing institutional demand, Fireblocks has launched an integration with Lido to provide easy and secure in-platform access to Lido’s liquid staking protocol and stETH token. Users can now stake their ETH, receive rewards, and “use stETH for on-chain activities, including Fireblocks Off… Read More

Nasdaq Expands Digital Bank Fintech Presence in LatAm Markets, Works with Nubank

Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) announced it has expanded its digital bank financial technology presence in Latin America, having agreed to provide its AxiomSL regulatory reporting solution to Nubank (NYSE: NU), a digital bank with over 100 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. The agreement extends… Read More

CBDCs: Bank of Canada Halts Plans to Introduce Central Bank Digital Currency

The Bank of Canada is reportedly halting its plans to roll-out a central bank digital currency (CBDC) to the nation’s businesses and consumers. A digital economy supported by innovations like central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) could help with streamlining digital transactions but some nations like… Read More

Knoops Secures Over £1.5M via Crowdcube to Support Growth of Business Focused on Drinking Chocolate

Knoops, which is currently raising funds via Crowdcube, explains that it celebrates the ritual of drinking chocolate, specializing in “expertly crafted” hot & cold drinks; aiming to do what was done for barista coffee. According to Knoops, it is raising funds in order “to grow… Read More

UK’s Assetz Capital Funds Development in Belfast with US Operator Sonder Secured

UK’s Assetz Capital has reportedly funded new addition to the Belfast skyline. According to the update from Assetz Capital, the Belfast skyline will soon see a new building feature. As mentioned in the announcement from Assetz Capital, the 84 unit serviced apartment development set over… Read More

Revolut to Introduce Retail Wealth Management App to Compete with Robinhood, eToro, Others

Revolut is reportedly introducing a standalone app based on its wealth management offering as Europe’s leading Fintech aims to challenge major competitors like Robinhood as well as Etoro in the retail investor sector. The Revolut Invest app will provide over 4,000 financial instruments, including from… Read More

Digital Assets Firm Kraken Strengthens European Operations with Completion of BCM Acquisition

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Kraken announced the closing of the Coin Meester B.V. (BCM) acquisition, which is said to be a key element in their European growth strategy. With the acquisition of BCM, one of the Netherlands’ oldest registered crypto brokers, Kraken have expanded their Dutch footprint and enhanced… Read More

Tyler Adams from COZ Comments on Why It’s Important to Advocate for Fair and Supportive Crypto Policies in the US

CI recently caught up with Tyler Adams, CEO and Co-founder of COZ, a software firm in the blockchain sector providing various products to s support Web3 development. In addition to his efforts to combat counterfeiting, Tyler is part of the lobbying group Stand With Crypto,… Read More

UK Finance Calls for Further Housing Market Reform

UK Finance is calling for further housing market reform. UK Finance recently releases its report ‘Homes We Need’ which proposes solutions to complement the government’s plans. UK Finance, which represents over 300 firms “including 120 mortgage lenders, is today releasing its report Homes We Need.”… Read More

Alternative Investments Firm Stonepeak Establishes Operations in Abu Dhabi

Stonepeak, an alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets, today announced the opening of an office in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), having received the Financial Services Permission (FSP) from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM)… Read More

Insurtech Akur8 Announces Partnership with Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC)

Akur8, the insurance pricing solution powered by transparent machine learning, is excited to announce its recent collaboration with Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC), Louisiana’s largest workers’ compensation carrier, dedicated to excellence in execution from underwriting to life-long care of an injured worker. LWCC has selected… Read More

Prove Verified Users Solution to Provide Reliable Identity Verification Services on Digital Marketplaces

Prove is launching the Prove Verified Users solution, a global identity verification solution that gives users peace of mind when interacting on digital marketplaces. Digital platforms can reassure users that they “are interacting with a verified individual, delivered by a trustworthiness indicator such as a… Read More

Fintech Bluefin Expands Agreement with Moneris to Enhance P2PE Solutions for Canadian Merchants

Bluefin, the firm focused on delivering PCI-validated encryption and tokenization technologies that protect sensitive data and payments, announced it has partnered with Moneris Solution Corporation, a Canadian leader in innovative solutions for mobile, online, and in-store commerce. The agreement further enhances Moneris’ Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE)… Read More

Digital Assets: Abra Partners with Praxis to Enable Real World Asset Tokenization

Abra, a global platform for digital asset services, announced it has partnered with Praxis, the first network state, to collaborate on real world asset tokenization, as well as DeFi services to network states, including those created on the Praxis platform. This partnership marks the launch… Read More

Fnality and Ownera to Interconnect Digital Money to Institutional Tokenization Market

Ownera, a provider of tokenization interoperability networks based on the open FinP2P protocol, and Fnality, a financial market infrastructure bringing together the safety and institutional quality of central bank money with the functionality and resilience of blockchain technology, have announced a strategic partnership. This collaboration… Read More

UK’s Metro Bank Issues Warning About Rise in Impersonation Scams

Metro Bank is warning its personal and business customers against a rise in impersonation scams as part of its Scam of the Month awareness campaign. Consumers are being bombarded by phone, text or email from “trusted” organizations such as their bank, the police, HMRC, delivery… Read More

Digital Bank Revolut Now Claims Over 10 Million Customers in the UK

Revolut, the global financial technology company has announced it has reached ten million customers in the UK. Revolut’s largest market, and where the company was “founded in 2015 has added nearly two million UK customers so far in 2024 and continues to grow.” Revolut has… Read More

European Embedded Finance Platform Solaris to Discontinue Parts of Electronic Money Institution Business

Solaris, Europe’s embedded finance platform has taken the difficult decision to discontinue major parts of its Electronic Money Institution business (formerly known as Contis). Solaris is reshaping into a stronger, “more resilient and agile organization that leads the market with innovative financial solutions.” As part… Read More

German Authorities Reportedly Shut Down 47 Exchange Services Including Crypto Exchanges Used for Criminal Purposes

The Frankfurt am Main Public Prosecutor’s Office – Central Office for Combating Internet Crime (ZIT) – and the Federal Criminal Police Office ( BKA ) have shut down 47 exchange services hosted in Germany that were “being used for criminal purposes.” These were platforms on… Read More

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