August 29, 2018 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Origin Protocol, one of the early initial token offerings listed on CoinList, has announced a core product: Origin Messaging (demo available). Origin was conceived as a decentralized marketplace to build blockchain based products. We are not talking about an ICO minting factory but a service… Read More

August 29, 2018 @ 11:37 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinmint, an operator of a very large cryptocurrency mining center, has commenced a security token offering (STO) in partnership with Securitize. According to Coinmint, each token issued will be worth one Terahash (TH) of Bitcoin mining power. Investors (accredited) may expect to receive daily payouts… Read More

August 29, 2018 @ 11:06 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based Fintech money transfer service Azimo has partnered with leading African payments business Interswitch Group. The announcement came during a UK trade delegation to Africa arranged by the PM’s office. Azimo was the loan Fintech to join the small group of firms traveling to… Read More

August 29, 2018 @ 10:05 am By JD Alois  |  

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) have strengthened their pre-existing Fintech relationship with a new agreement. According to MAS, this most recent collaboration will see mutual referrals of promising Fintech firms between the two jurisdictions.  The agreement is… Read More

August 28, 2018 @ 9:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, the Virtual Commodity Association (VCA) officially launched and quickly scheduled a meeting for September. The inaugural members included several well-known names in the virtual currency sector. Bittrex, Bitstamp, bitFlyer USA and Gemini Trust Company were announced as founding members. At the same time, Maria… Read More

August 28, 2018 @ 8:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kingdom Trust, a regulated custody agent with over 100,000 clients and $12 billion in assets under custody, is going full crypto. According to a release today, Kingdom Trust has secured insurance covering digital assets via the august name of Lloyds of London. Kingdom Trust is providing… Read More

August 28, 2018 @ 3:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Speedy blockchain provider Hedera Hashgraph has announced the launch of their mainnet. While not  quite publicly accessible today, the state of ledger has been cryptographically hashed, according to a blog post by Leemon Baird and Mance Harmon. The founders explain; “We remain highly focused on building… Read More

August 28, 2018 @ 3:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

This is courtesy of a note being circulated by Prime Trust, a service that provides escrow options including for the burgeoning digital assets sector and crowdfunded securities. Scott Purcell in an email tackled the topic of whether, or not an issuer of securities may accept… Read More

August 28, 2018 @ 7:31 am By JD Alois  |  

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has launched a consultation pertaining to Fintech. Switzerland has pursued innovations in finance as beneficial to their banking centric economy. The alpine nation has become prominent in the crypto or initial coin offering sector as many early stage… Read More

August 28, 2018 @ 7:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Seedrs, a leading European investment crowdfunding platform, has formed a partnership with US based investment platform Republic. The details of the arrangement have just been revealed but rumors of a pending arrangement have percolated for months. This is not the first UK / US pan-Atlantic… Read More

August 27, 2018 @ 11:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fintech Orca has signed a partnership with MisterTango. Orca wants to be a bridge between crypto and traditional finance or “one app to build your own bank.” MisterTango is a payments platform. The agreement enables ORCA to have the ability to develop solutions for SEPA payment account… Read More

August 27, 2018 @ 11:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Last week, it was announced that Indiegogo, via its partnership with broker dealer Microinvest, was launching a security token offering (STO) for Aspen Digital. The “Aspen Coins” represent a single share in common stock offered under the Reg D 506c exemption for the St. Regis Aspen… Read More

August 27, 2018 @ 8:35 am By JD Alois  |  

CoAssets Limited, a crowdfunding platform traded on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX: CA8), has reported its financial results for the full year ended 30 June 2018. According to the company which is based in Singapore, CoAssets experienced its first full year of profitable operations representing… Read More

August 27, 2018 @ 8:07 am By JD Alois  |  

LavidaCoin: “Step Mother of Coin” The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has issued a statement on the initial coin offering (ICO) “LavidaCoin.” According to a report in the Independent, the cryptocurrency is the creation of a controversial Malaysia socialite who is well known in the country… Read More

August 27, 2018 @ 6:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Azimo, a digital money transfer service based in London and Krakow, is set to join Theresa May’s official delegation to Africa – her first official visit to the continent. Azimo is one of 29 companies selected, and the only Fintech, for the visit to Nigeria,… Read More

August 26, 2018 @ 7:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

First announced earlier this month, the World Bank has revealed their first “blockchain bond” or bond-i easily raised A$110 million. Arunma Oteh, World Bank Treasurer, said he was delighted that the “pioneer bond transaction” was well received by investors. The bone was issued using a… Read More

August 24, 2018 @ 4:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Buried within a report from Bloomberg this week was an interesting statement from Japan. Speaking with the relatively new Commissioner of the Japanese Financial Services Agency, Toshihide Endo, the public official shared his thoughts on cryptocurrency and Japan. Japan became a haven of sorts for… Read More

August 24, 2018 @ 2:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

According to a survey from Ripio, users in Latin America overwhelmingly believe blockchain will take over the financial system within the next decade. Ripio is a peer to peer credit network that operates on blockchain. The Ripio wallet has over 200,000 users and is one of… Read More

August 24, 2018 @ 12:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Consumer finance platform Blackfish Technology has closed on a Series o A+ round financing at $50 million. In January, Blackfish closed on a $140 million funding round (950 million CNY). New investors in this most recent round are Lightspeed Venture Partners, Rakuten Ventures, China Growth Capital,… Read More

August 24, 2018 @ 10:03 am By JD Alois  |  

In a significant move by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Singapore Exchange (SGX), the government entities announced its intent to offer digital assets including tokenized securities and virtual currencies. MAS and SGX will develop “Delivery versus Payment (DvP) capabilities” by using different blockchain… Read More