October 8, 2021 @ 12:59 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Permission-based advertising provider Permission.io this week announced the development of their demand side platform (DSP), Permission Ads. The patent-pending, ad-buying platform offers advertisers a new way to run consent-based ad campaigns offering consumers cryptocurrency rewards in the form of ASK digital currency, in exchange for their… Read More

October 8, 2021 @ 8:26 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

While more than 40 per cent of businesses in the United Kingdom have accessed external finance this year, the economic impact could be far greater, the British Business Bank’s first annual Regions and Nations Tracker reveals. The problems begin with a lack of local investors… Read More

October 7, 2021 @ 9:54 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Today, Clear Books and Capitalise announced an initiative to help small businesses and their advisers access financing. The partnership includes an integration between Clear Books and Capitalise, the first of the kind for each, which allows small businesses to eliminate the panic and stress often… Read More

October 7, 2021 @ 8:29 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Travel and leisure booking platform Klook and Asian buy now pay later (BNPL) brand Atome today announced a regional partnership to expand BNPL payment acceptance for travel, attractions and leisure experiences across Southeast Asia. The partnership will start in Singapore before rolling out to Hong… Read More

October 7, 2021 @ 7:27 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Gilded, a provider of blockchain financial reporting software, today announced NFTOPS, a solution for NFT marketplaces to track and analyze financial data. According to Gilded, NFTs saw a record-high transaction volume of $10.7 billion in Q3 2021, up sevenfold from the previous quarter. While NFT… Read More

October 7, 2021 @ 2:25 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Latino-owned businesses have shown signs of strength in the current economy, but they have also suffered, findings from the annual Biz2Credit Latino-Owned Business Study show. At $258,251, the average annual revenue for Latino-owned businesses in 2020-21 was $82,535 lower than their revenues the previous year… Read More

October 6, 2021 @ 10:23 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

DirectID, a global credit risk platform, announced today it has partnered with MockBank, a Fintech firm providing sandboxing and testing functionality for open banking connections. The partnership will give organizations using the DirectID platform the ability to effortlessly test bank connections, without the need to… Read More

October 6, 2021 @ 8:08 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The value of hacked PayPal accounts has surged in 2021, while verified cryptocurrency accounts will cost you a pretty penny, research analyzed and originally published by wette.de reveals. In September, such an account was worth 9.2 cents for every dollar in the account. That is… Read More

October 6, 2021 @ 4:15 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Blockchain venture capitalist CV VC has started its Dubai operations in partnership with DMCC Crypto Centre. CV VC has currently successfully invested in 32 early-stage blockchain startups from around the world, 22 of which came via its CV Labs incubation program. Selected start-ups from the… Read More

October 6, 2021 @ 3:30 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bosonic, a clearing and settlement platform for digital assets, today added three senior advisors and seven staff, bringing its team total to 35. The hires are across technology, product and business development, and sales. “As we begin to engage in our largest capital raise to… Read More

October 6, 2021 @ 2:43 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Canadian cryptocurrency trading platform Coinberry this week named Abhijeet Roy as their new chief technology officer. Before joining Coinberry Roy held leadership positions at MicroStrategy, a provider of enterprise analytics, and one of the largest holders of Bitcoin in the technology sector. Roy brings more… Read More

October 6, 2021 @ 8:32 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

A green chemistry project is turning to the blockchain to encourage the corporate world to transition to environmentally friendly products. SMARTCHEM (Intelligent Fluids GmbH) announced this week that its SMAC token sale starts  Oct. 10. The SMAC token will form the basis of this new… Read More

October 5, 2021 @ 10:56 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Matrix, a virtual assets trading platform serving global investors, has partnered with BitGo, a provider of digital asset financial services. The union will see BitGo provide Matrix with several different options for custodial services, including hot- and cold-storage capabilities for traders utilizing the Matrix platform. The… Read More

October 5, 2021 @ 9:10 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

An increase in electronic payment frequency and the prioritization of APIs are among the takeaways of the 2021 B2B Payments Survey, which was conducted recently by Bottomline Technologies and Strategic Treasurer. The fifth annual survey, which polled more than 340 executives from banks and corporations,… Read More

October 5, 2021 @ 9:08 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

New research from Nickel Digital Asset Management, a European regulated digital assets investment manager, reveals 25 per cent of professional investors see the appetite for risk from pension funds and other institutional investors increasing dramatically over the next two years. A further 47 per cent… Read More

October 5, 2021 @ 5:41 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Domination Finance, a non-custodial, decentralized exchange for dominance pairs, this week announced a new integration with full-stack Ethereum scaling solution Polygon. The company said integration lowers costs and increases speeds for Domination Finance traders and liquidity providers. Polygon allows transactions to occur without needing to… Read More

October 5, 2021 @ 1:40 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Digital assets financial services platform Matrixport announced this week that its custodian solution Cactus Custody is now supporting ConsenSys’ MetaMask Institutional (MMI), a version of Metamask that integrates institution-compliant custody, operational, risk, and compliance features. MMI is integrated with Cactus Custody’s DeFi Connector feature, which creates… Read More

October 5, 2021 @ 11:47 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Italia Olivicola, the largest organization of olive and olive oil producers in Italy, is working with Euranet, a technology compliance management services provider, to move its supply chain operations onto the Algorand blockchain.  This model was developed employing Euranet’s ChoralChain platform and can be applied… Read More

October 4, 2021 @ 9:00 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Real estate tech firm reAlpha, which is targeting the $1.2 trillion short-term rental market, is raising up to $75,000,000 pursuant to Regulation A+. reAlpha’s common stock is now available for purchase at a price of $10 per share.  “We’re thrilled to offer Main Street investors… Read More

October 3, 2021 @ 9:27 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

A £1.7m development loan to New Generation Developments is the latest move by Assetz Capital. The specialty lender has facilitated nearly £1.5bn of retail and institutional funds to UK businesses to date. New Generation Developments Ltd, a Cardiff-based construction company, secured the loan to build… Read More