June 28, 2023 @ 12:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

Deloitte Switzerland has partnered with Polimec to provide reusable KYC or know your customer. These credentials will be using Polkadot, and the “banking grade” KYC credentials will be issued by Deloitte. The company explains that this information will be utilized to empower the global fundraising… Read More

June 28, 2023 @ 12:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Michael Ackerman, from Alliance, Ohio, has been ordered to pay over $50 million for a bogus digital asset trading scam. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has received a default judgment regarding Ackerman from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York…. Read More

June 28, 2023 @ 11:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Fintech Nexus, once the must-attend global Fintech event of the year, is no more, according to a blog post on their website. Fintech Nexus has signed an agreement with Fintech Meeting to take over the events business. Launched years ago as LendIt, focusing first on… Read More

June 28, 2023 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset firm Paxos has inked a deal to provide Mercado Pago with access to the stablecoin Pax Dollar (USDP). The Pax Dollar will now be available to Mercado Pago’s users in Mexico. Paxos shares that over 60 percent of its active wallets are currently… Read More

June 28, 2023 @ 8:32 am By JD Alois  |  

CGB Green Liberty Notes LLC, part of the Connecticut Green Bank, has announced its seventh Green Liberty offering. The security is issued under Reg CF and sold on the Raise Green platform. The offering allows individuals to participate for just $100 to support small businesses… Read More

June 27, 2023 @ 6:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

The European Union is expected to release its proposal on digital payments and a possible digital euro soon. In advance of the anticipated release, the Crypto Council for Innovation has issued a statement on the forthcoming policy. Mark Foster, the EU Policy Lead at the… Read More

June 27, 2023 @ 5:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Bank of Lithuania has terminated the electronic money institution (EMI) license of UAB Payrnet. The bank said the license was revoked due to “serious, systematic and multiple violations of legal act. The company allegedly violated the Law on Electronic Money and Electronic Money Institutions,… Read More

June 27, 2023 @ 12:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bitfinex has launched peer-to-peer (P2P) services in Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela. The service will allow customers to buy and sell crypto directly to individuals while completing the payment process outside the platform. Bitfinex P2P will offer services for Bitcoin, Tether – USDt and EURt, Tether… Read More

June 27, 2023 @ 12:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Rivero, Switzerland-based Fintech, is working with Cornèrcard, an issuer of Visa, Mastercard and Diners Club payment cards to leverage their compliance platform. According to a company statement, Cornèrcard will use Rivero’s compliance SaaS solution, Kajo, to digitalize its compliance processing requirements. Kajo is expected to… Read More

June 27, 2023 @ 8:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Fintechs, including neobanks, have been one of the hottest sectors of venture funding around the world. This segment of private capital is also one of the hottest sectors for online capital formation as entrepreneurs rush to disrupt the somewhat antediluvian banking world. Nebeus is a… Read More

June 26, 2023 @ 6:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

Financial tech provider Finastra says it has been approved for the new FedNow Service launching in the next few weeks. FedNow is a US government initiative to power real-time payments. The service will be integrated into Finastra’s Payments To Go platform and will later be… Read More

June 26, 2023 @ 3:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Worthy Financial, Inc., has announced another securities offering in the form of a property bond that generates a 5.5% fixed return for investors. The security is issued under the Reg A+ exemption and is available for retail investors. The offering document must be qualified by… Read More

June 26, 2023 @ 10:14 am By JD Alois  |  

The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), the main securities regulator in France, says it wants to become a regulator that supports financial innovation. As part of its strategic ambitions for the coming years, the AMF, as presented by its current Chair Marie-Anne Barbat-Layani, has issued… Read More

June 25, 2023 @ 7:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

The FATF (Financial Action Task Force) has just concluded its third Plenary under the Presidency of T. Raja Kumar of Singapore and has posted an update on the gathering. Amongst other hot topics, the group has bemoaned the slow pace of adoption of the FATF… Read More

June 25, 2023 @ 5:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky says it is time to “double down on the bustling UK tech sector.” In a blog post, Kelisky noted that expectations are for VC funding in European startups to be over 50% less in 2023 than in 2021 due to the… Read More

June 24, 2023 @ 2:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Prime Trust, once one of the most successful Fintechs serving the securities crowdfunding industry, is now insolvent, according to a document filed by the State of Nevada, Department of Business and Industry, Financial Institutions Division (NFID). In a cease and desist (C&D) order, NFID claims… Read More

June 24, 2023 @ 10:27 am By JD Alois  |  

Volatility Shares Trust has submitted a filing to launch a Bitcoin Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) on the Cboe. According to the document, the Bitcoin ETF utilizes leverage to drive daily returns. The 2x Bitcoin Strategy ETF aims to accomplish the following strategy: “2x Bitcoin Strategy… Read More

June 23, 2023 @ 8:54 am By JD Alois  |  

The news cycle is consumed with the debate about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it is going to transform the world. AI, machine learning has been integrated into various Fintech platforms for years now but the rise of ChatGPT has drawn more interest and scrutiny…. Read More

June 22, 2023 @ 6:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Another Pig Butchering scam is in the news again. “Sha Zhu Pan” or “Pig Butchering” is a romance plot designed to fleece the funds of the unsuspecting. In this case, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed an enforcement action against Cunwen Zhu and… Read More

June 22, 2023 @ 3:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Detractors of digital assets, or crypto, typically point to the utilization of crypto to pursue nefarious activities such as money laundering. Rules exist for financial transactions regarding “know your customer” (KYC) and “anti-money laundering” (AML), but they are enforced to various degrees depending on the… Read More