April 5, 2023 @ 12:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

Metaco has revealed a partnership with Liechtenstein private bank VP Bank (SWX: VPBN). According to a statement distributed by Metaco, the bank will incorporate Metaco’s Harmonize platform to enable digital asset custody and tokenization services, including financial assets, minting, burning, and storage of tokens. VP… Read More

April 5, 2023 @ 10:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Interactive Brokers (NASDAQ:IKBR) has integrated Wise (LSE:WISE) into its platform to allow account holders to benefit from Wise’s global transfer services. Interactive Brokers supports clients from over 200 countries and territories, so partnering with Wise makes a lot of sense. Interactive Brokers is a regulated… Read More

April 5, 2023 @ 9:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Investment bank Piper Sandler (NYSE: PIPR) has posted its 45th semi-annual report on Teen preferences, which can help glean which products and services are rising and which are on the wane. At the same time, teens can be fickle, as parents will explain. The Taking… Read More

April 4, 2023 @ 10:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Pine Protocol has announced its launch on the Polygon blockchain. Polygone enables Ethereum scaling solutions powering some big platforms like Aave, Uniswap, and OpenSea. Pine Protocol is a “decentralized non-custodial protocol that facilitates NFT asset-backed loan transactions between lenders and borrowers.” Borrowers may leverage their NFTs… Read More

April 4, 2023 @ 8:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

  Crypto Con: “Sha Zhu Pan” or pig butchering in Chinese Fraudsters and crooks tend to rehash their scams over time; the only thing that changes is the technology and tools utilized to separate money from the unsuspecting. Yesterday, the US Department of Justice (DOJ)… Read More

April 4, 2023 @ 7:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Virtuix, previously a serial funder on SeedInvest, has filed a Form C to raise capital under Reg CF – this time with DealMaker. Simultaneously, Virtuix has filed a Form D to raise money under Reg D 506c for accredited investors – a fairly typical practice… Read More

April 4, 2023 @ 12:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kashet, a neobank that is based in the UK, says it has closed on a CHF 6.2 million (~USD $ 6.7 million) in its Series A funding round. Trifork Labs, a Copenhagen-based technology accelerator, participated in the funding. Kashet notes that it has been operating… Read More

April 4, 2023 @ 12:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) has added Apple Pay (NASDAQ:AAPL)  as a payment option for its busines users, according to a corporate statement. PayPal said that beggining today small businesse will accept payments with Apple Pay, allow customers to save payment methods with the PayPal vault and… Read More

April 4, 2023 @ 12:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bitcoin has always been a volatile asset making significant moves in a relatively brief period of time. Currently, Bitcoin experiencing a solid rise in price due in part to the overall market and the current banking crisis. As it stands now, BTC is trading at… Read More

April 3, 2023 @ 5:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

Acorns, an online investment platform providing access to securities, crypto, and banking services, has acquired UK-based Fintech GoHenry. GoHenry is a digital investment platform that targets younger investors, aiming to get them started on securing their financial future early in life. GoHenry is also a… Read More

April 3, 2023 @ 5:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding, under the Reg CF exemption, is experiencing a “roller coaster ride,” according to the most recent quarterly update provided by Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA). According to the report, Q1 2023 saw the lowest capital committed since Q4 2020 – so several years ago… Read More

April 3, 2023 @ 4:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged beaxy with operating as a national securities exchange minus the authorization to do so. The SEC filed charges against founder beaxy Artak Hamazaspyan, and his company Beaxy Digital, Ltd., for raising $8 million in an unregistered… Read More

April 3, 2023 @ 10:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Compliance-first digital asset firm Paxos has announced that it has topped ten million “active” digital wallets globally, according to a release distributed by the firm. Paxos is a regulated blockchain infrastructure platform that has inked partnerships with some of the biggest names in Fintech, including… Read More

April 3, 2023 @ 10:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Issuance, Inc. has announced a partnership with Rialto Markets that aims to reduce the cost of private firms raising money online. Issuance is a SaaS-based online capital formation platform that reports having assisted issuers in raising over $250 million. The tech firm is designed to… Read More

April 3, 2023 @ 9:15 am By JD Alois  |  

The spectacular collapse of Wirecard, once Germany’s largest Fintech, still reverberates within the country. While different pieces and parts have been sold off to various firms, the collateral damage continues, and new information continues to emerge. Today, EY – once the auditor of Wirecard, has… Read More

April 3, 2023 @ 7:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Edda, a Paris-based Fintech, has announced a partnership with Innovation Bay, a community for startups based in Australia. Edda is a tool for professional investors that aims to create value by allowing users to see the value of their investments and the impact they generate… Read More

April 2, 2023 @ 6:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

Beginning on April 6, 2023, early-stage private firms will be able to tap into an improved Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS), one of several tax policies aimed at supporting entrepreneurship and early-stage firms in the UK. The popular program is a positive for both investors… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 4:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

GlobexUS Holdings Corp., the company that powers Upstream – a digital asset marketplace, is pursuing an online securities offering to raise growth capital. Upstream is a joint venture with MERJ Exchange – the regulated marketplace based in Seychelles. Upstream has been announcing digital securities cross-listed… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 4:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Stock options platform Equitybee has launched a new “Equity Value Finder,” a service designed to provide a market value for private shares. Pricing private shares has always been a challenge as you do not have a highly liquid marketplace to set a value as you… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 4:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) have partnered to announce QR codes for payments will now be accepted bilaterally. Users at participating financial firms will now accept in-person payments by scanning a physical code displayed on merchants as well as… Read More