General News

October 20, 2022 @ 9:46 am By JD Alois  |  

The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council) has issued a statement hammering the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for its activity that will have “a chilling effect on America’s startup ecosystem.” This past week, the CMA claimed that the acquisition by Facebook (Meta)… Read More

October 20, 2022 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nuri was founded in 2015 under the name Bitwala with the purpose “to make Bitcoin spendable.” Over the years, the business has “gone through several transformations and re-positionings, ups and downs,” until it has become Nuri, the bank account “to grow your money.” The team’s… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 8:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Colt Technology Services has announced the successful completion of a pioneering cloud colocation Proof of Concept (PoC), which demonstrates “the viability of hosting and distributing multicast data in the cloud for global Capital Market customers.” The testing represents “a step towards greater on demand services… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 8:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Binance NFT Marketplace is pleased to be the official sales platform of an exclusive NFT collection created by the Kharkiv Art Museum in Ukraine. This cultural institution is “home to around 25,000 works of fine art, and the museum’s collection is recognized as one… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 12:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

GoCardless, which claims to be a global leader in direct bank payments, has signed Crowdz, the small and mid-sized enterprise (SME) finance platform, “as its latest customer as the company looks to integrate open banking to enhance its ability to drive equitable access to finance… Read More

October 18, 2022 @ 6:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

a16z (Andreessen Horowitz) has relaunched its Crypto Startup School (CSS), while expanding the program into a crypto accelerator, according to a blog post. a16z is one of the best-known VCs in Silicon Valley. While backing various industry sectors, including Fintech, a16z has emerged as a… Read More

October 18, 2022 @ 3:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Backbase’s entrepreneurial culture is driving organic growth across the world, in terms of revenue and customers, as the company’s mission “to re-architect banking around the customer through Engagement Banking is gaining global traction.” That culture, growth and mission were externally “validated by the €120 million… Read More

October 18, 2022 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New crypto protocols are increasingly focused on platform security from their onset, “knowing that trust is key to standing out and building critical momentum at launch,” according to an update from Anchorage Digital. It should come as no surprise, then, that they “are increasingly partnering… Read More

October 17, 2022 @ 9:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that Ms. Gillian Tan will be appointed Chief Sustainability Officer “from 17 October 2022, in addition to her current role as Assistant Managing Director (Development & International).” MAS’ current Chief Sustainability Officer, Dr. Darian McBain, will “leave MAS… Read More

October 17, 2022 @ 2:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BIAN, the “independent” not-for-profit association, recently announced its Open-Source Specification tool. Through its Open-Source offering, organizations now “have access to a set of message definitions made freely available for modification and redistribution.” The tool has been “developed to further BIAN’s CORELESS BANKING INITIATIVE, which aims… Read More

October 17, 2022 @ 12:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brazil’s C6 Bank notes that the purchase of airline tickets has always been one of the main destinations given to the points accumulated by customers registered in bank and credit card loyalty programs. But other ways of using these miles are “starting to become popular.”… Read More

October 16, 2022 @ 6:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CANVAS, a DeFi infrastructure company, is pleased to announce the testnet launch of CANVAS Connect, the Layer 2 scaling solution “built for the digital economy.” CANVAS Connect was “built in partnership with StarkWare, using the company’s STARK Proofs to batch DeFi transactions.” The new service… Read More

October 16, 2022 @ 3:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Launchnodes recently announced the rollout of Geth Nodes for Ethereum staking on AWS, following Ethereum’s successful ‘Merge’ in late September 2022. Using Geth nodes (execution layer clients) on AWS is “a cheap and easy way to enable staking through any consensus layer client when staking… Read More

October 15, 2022 @ 2:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zumo, the UK-based wallet and crypto-as-a-service enterprise solution provider, has announced at Sibos 2022 that it has “become the latest member of the World Economic Forum’s Crypto Sustainability Coalition.” Part of the wider Crypto Impact and Sustainability Accelerator, the newly formed coalition will explore “how… Read More

October 14, 2022 @ 6:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Forter, the Trust Platform for digital commerce, announced the launch of Smart Claims, a new product offering designed “to help businesses manage chargebacks more effectively.” By connecting order and claims data across different payment systems into a single, consolidated view, Smart Claims “enables merchants to… Read More

October 14, 2022 @ 9:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Data solutions provider, Sagacity Solutions Ltd., recently announced its acquisition of data marketing and insight agency, REaD Group Ltd. The acquisition will give clients “a one-stop-shop for clean, accurate and compliant data with … comprehensive insights.” Sagacity will “provide an intelligently informed customer lifecycle proposition… Read More

October 14, 2022 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether, the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin USDT by market cap, announced on October 13, 2022 that it has “eliminated commercial paper from its reserves, replacing these investments with U.S. Treasury Bills (T-Bills).” This announcement “comes as part of Tether’s ongoing efforts to increase… Read More

October 13, 2022 @ 4:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Today the SEC’s Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee (SBCFAC) held a meeting to address two important topics. The sagging initial public offering (IPO) market and access to capital for vital entrepreneurial markets. Both, are key policy ambitions – more so during a time of… Read More

October 13, 2022 @ 2:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Since Talenthouse completed the acquisition of Coolabi which covers several markets including UK, US and China, both businesses are working together “to deepen Talenthouse’s proposition within the Creator Economy space and diversify its offering amidst an unsteady market.” With market conditions looking to continue in… Read More

October 13, 2022 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Digital Pound Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of Modulr to the Digital Pound Foundation’s membership community. Since its inception in 2016, Modulr has “grown to become the leading provider of embedded payments to businesses across the UK and Europe.” Authorized by the… Read More