General News

July 20, 2022 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Anchorage Digital and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Portugal Section are pleased to announce a partnership “focused on educating the next generation of engineers and technologists about blockchain, distributed systems, and cryptography.” Together, Anchorage and IEEE Portugal (with more than 1,300 members… Read More

July 19, 2022 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zimpler, which claims to be a leading Fintech company born in Sweden, recently announced that it has gone live in Norway. Following Sweden, Finland, Germany, Estonia, The Netherlands, Latvia and Lithuania, Norway becomes the eighth market “to offer Zimpler’s account-to-account payments solutions.” The first merchant… Read More

July 18, 2022 @ 12:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bluevine, which claims to be the leading provider of “holistic” banking solutions designed for small businesses, recently announced a new brand identity, “reflecting the company’s next era of its commitment to grow and evolve its services alongside the changing needs of small business owners.” Bluevine’s… Read More

July 16, 2022 @ 10:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rome Blockchain Labs, the organization behind BENQI’s Liquid Staking protocol on Avalanche, recently announced a collaboration with Alluvial and the founders of BENQI “to build a compliant, enterprise-grade Avalanche (AVAX) liquid staking product.” This collaboration “offers institutions a secure AVAX staking option while participating in… Read More

July 16, 2022 @ 10:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Genesis Vault Capital, a digital asset fund, is pleased to launch Genesis Venture Studio (GVS). The mission of GVS is “to help founders validate, launch, and scale Web3 companies structured as Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs).” DAOs are “a new type of entity that is collectively… Read More

July 15, 2022 @ 4:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Avolta, a French boutique investment bank that is active in the venture space in Europe, has published a report on French tech funding reporting that Q2 2022 is the 3rd best quarter for funding ever. While certain markets are sagging, due to the rocky economy,… Read More

July 15, 2022 @ 11:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lemonade (NYSE:LMND), the digital insurance company powered by social impact, announced that its 2022 Giveback for the twelve months ended June 30, 2022, “amounting to $1,873,588, to be donated across 59 nonprofit organizations chosen by its customers.” The Lemonade Giveback is “part of the company’s… Read More

July 14, 2022 @ 5:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum has strengthened its core tech leadership team and digital transformation capabilities with the addition of key executives to its Board of Directors, Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao, CEO of SBI Digital Asset Holdings, and Al-Noor Ramji, Tata Motors board member and former Prudential Chief Digital… Read More

July 14, 2022 @ 8:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Persistent inflation, supply chain weaknesses and concerns over the severity of interest rate hikes are “pushing more business leaders to make difficult decisions to preserve the economic health of their companies.” This, according to the 2022 Working Capital Survey from C2FO, which claims to be… Read More

July 14, 2022 @ 7:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Marqeta (NASDAQ: MQ)has announced that Simon Khalaf will step in as the company’s new Chief Product Officer. Khalaf arrives at Marqeta after working at Twilio as Vice President of the firm’s core products. Marqeta states that Khalaf will be responsible for the strategic direction, development, and… Read More

July 13, 2022 @ 12:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Inflation rang the bell once again, topping expectations and delivering a 9.1% increase in prices in the past 12 months. Consumer prices rocketed higher in June, delivering a 1.3% increase. With the Fed on deck, the discussion now shifts to how much higher the rate… Read More

July 12, 2022 @ 6:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Canada’s debit network Interac is reportedly adding a backup network provider after this past week’s large-scale outage at Rogers, which had left millions of clients unable to complete payments. In statements shared with Reuters, the company’s management noted: “We are adding a supplier (besides Rogers)… Read More

July 12, 2022 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ForwardAI, a Fintech providing aggregated access to accounting & business data and analysis, has released a whitepaper titled “Rising small business expectations and the evolving roles of financial service providers,” which focuses on modern, technology-enabled services that accountants, banking and financial service providers “offer to… Read More

July 11, 2022 @ 7:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Comodo Security Solutions has announced a rebranding to Xcitium, as the company launches its patented “zero threat” endpoint technology “to combat an increase in ransomware and other malware across all industries.” Xcitium Zero Threat is reportedly “the only solution on the market that entirely eliminates… Read More

July 11, 2022 @ 6:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Insurtech Acrisure has gained the naming rights for the Pittsburgh Steelers stadium. According to a statement from Acrisure, the rights are held for 15 years. Details on the deal were not released. The stadium had been named Heinz Field since it opened in 2001. Founded… Read More

July 11, 2022 @ 9:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Consumers from lower-than-average socioeconomic backgrounds found it challenging to access online banking during the COVID-19 outbreak, while many continue to depend on in-person banking services. This, according to an update from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The research, released in the… Read More

July 11, 2022 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance.US, the U.S. partner to the world’s largest crypto exchange and “America’s home” to buy, sell, trade, convert and stake digital assets, recently announced the appointment of Jasmine Lee, a seasoned financial services and technology executive, as Chief Financial Officer. In this role, Jasmine will… Read More

July 11, 2022 @ 1:27 am By JD Alois  |  

Tide, a Fintech providing banking services to small businesses, has issued a warning that the UK could be in store for a challenging business environment as one in five small business owners may not make it through the year. According to a survey of 1000… Read More

July 10, 2022 @ 11:50 am By JD Alois  |  

Venture capital funding continues its march downward after a stellar 2021 for risk capital. Obviously, this is due to a deteriorating global economy, Giga high inflation, and central banks needed to battle rising prices by making money more expensive. CB Insights shared recently that global… Read More

July 8, 2022 @ 1:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dequency has introduced its Web3-powered music licensing marketplace, “opening its portal to music rights holders everywhere, having completed a 4-month restricted beta phase.” Dequency is building (what it claims to be) “a unique, decentralized music licensing marketplace for music rights holders and visual creators to… Read More