General News

September 20, 2022 @ 1:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The “first” in-game NFTs have been minted on Efinity with the launch of the MetaHome NFT collection, immediately usable in MyMetaverse’s full suite of games. MyMetaverse, a game development company specializing in creator-led metaverses with play-and-earn economies, “ensured that on launch, the NFTs perform different… Read More

September 20, 2022 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OneSpan (NASDAQ: OSPN), the digital agreements security company, announced the general availability of its secure Virtual Room cloud service which “enables organizations to deliver live, high-touch assistance to their customers in a high-assurance virtual environment.” This next-generation customer engagement solution “gives organizations the ability to balance… Read More

September 19, 2022 @ 10:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Machine learning (ML) startup TrueFoundry has raised USD$ 2.3 million in Seed funding led by Sequoia India, and SE Asia’s Surge with the participation of AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant and Eniac Ventures. Other angel investors include Deutsche Bank Global CIO Dilip Khandelwal, Head of GitHub… Read More

September 19, 2022 @ 8:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainalysis has shared their 2022 Global Crypto Adoption Index Report. For the third consecutive year, Chainalysis ranked all countries “by grassroots cryptocurrency adoption. While commenting on what is grassroots adoption of cryptocurrency, Chainalysis explained that they could easily rank countries by “raw” cryptocurrency transaction volume,… Read More

September 19, 2022 @ 1:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Lago DAO recently voted to pass its first proposal, “putting in motion a series of events resulting in the birth of a new decentralized digital currency: USD2.” USD2 is implemented on the Kadena blockchain via smart contracts, which are “controlled by the Lago DAO.”… Read More

September 18, 2022 @ 6:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IDnow, a European identity proofing platform provider, is pleased to announce its participation in the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Accelerate@IATA 2022 accelerator program. IDnow is working with IATA and its members, “providing expertise and regulatory know-how in the field of identity proofing and digital… Read More

September 18, 2022 @ 5:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), an enterprise technology provider to banks, retailers and restaurants, announced its Board of Directors has unanimously “approved a plan to separate NCR into two independent, publicly traded companies – one focused on digital commerce, the other on ATMs.” The separation is… Read More

September 17, 2022 @ 10:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank of Russia and market participants “launched the testing of the digital ruble platform and successfully completed the first digital ruble transfers between individuals.” The creation of a prototype of the digital ruble platform was “finished in December 2021.” Twelve banks announced their readiness… Read More

September 17, 2022 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK happens to be the “top” European market and is also one of the key global markets for venture capital (VC) funding, according to an update from GlobalData. However, it has been “experiencing a subdued funding activity in the recent months with monthly VC… Read More

September 17, 2022 @ 3:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Modern Treasury, a software platform that helps companies modernize money movement, and Goldman Sachs Transaction Banking (TxB) announced a partnership “to accelerate the shift to embedded payments, helping joint customers seamlessly embed and scale domestic and international payments into their products to drive growth.” Modern… Read More

September 15, 2022 @ 5:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

SEC Chairman Gary Gensler testified in front of the Senate Banking Committee today, reiterating his opinion that in regards to digital assets  (or crypto assets) that the vast majority are securities. The exception being Bitcoin, and perhaps Ethereum – which entail much of the crypto… Read More

September 14, 2022 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tuum, an Estonian-born “next-generation” core banking platform, has partnered with Salt Edge, a key player in open banking solutions, “to help financial services providers from all over Europe to leverage the full spectrum of open banking features – fast and secure.” As technological advancements make… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) announced that John Kim will join the company as Executive Vice President, Chief Product Officer, “effective September 26, 2022.” Kim reportedly “brings unique skills and experience building foundational consumer products and marketplaces from the ground up.” Throughout his career, he… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 10:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Web3’s commerce layer Boson Protocol is partnering with Alterrage, a DAO-led fashion label leveraging blockchain technology, “to create interoperable collections across physical, augmented, and digital spaces.” The partnership will see Alterrage “open a phygital Web3 store where buyers will be able to purchase the unique… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 12:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The International Securities Lending Association (ISLA), International Capital Market Association (ICMA) and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) have announced the appointment of FINOS to “provide a repository, with a view to fostering the growth of an open-source community for the Common Domain Model… Read More

September 12, 2022 @ 10:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ErisX, a Cboe Global Markets (Cboe: CBOE) company, announced it has introduced the ErisX Settlement Service, a solution designed “to help remove settlement risk for over-the-counter (OTC) crypto transactions.” The offering expands ErisX’s suite of tools for institutional investors, “enabling them to settle OTC trades… Read More

September 12, 2022 @ 3:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Securrency, a blockchain-based financial markets infrastructure and products company, announced that it will deploy its proprietary Digital Asset Composer on the XDC Network, a blockchain “with a mature ecosystem and a particular focus on real-world applications in global trade and finance.” Digital Asset Composer is… Read More

September 12, 2022 @ 3:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Interledger Foundation (ILF) has awarded Bowie State University (BSU) a $25,000 grant to partner on an undergraduate course that will “enable students to explore open payments technologies and issues in eCommerce and personal finance.” Open payments technologies “allow individuals and businesses to pay for… Read More

September 12, 2022 @ 12:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AtomicHub, the high-scale NFT platform, has officially implemented Banxa’s NFT Checkout. Through the partnership, AtomicHub users will “benefit from a seamless, frictionless and faster process to purchase NFTs.” Built on the WAX blockchain, AtomicHub’s NFT marketplace “enables users to explore, purchase, trade, and list NFTs.”… Read More

September 10, 2022 @ 7:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

India’s Cashfree Payments, a payment and API banking solutions company, is enabling door-step payment collection for DASH, a tech-led go-to-market platform for brands in Tier-3 towns. DASH will be using Cashfree Payments’ point of sale solution, ‘softPOS’, “to offer this service to more than 2,000… Read More