Global

October 1, 2024 @ 9:27 am By JD Alois  |  

The Draghi Report Previously, CI reported that Mario Draghi, formerly the European Central Bank (ECB) president, had hammered the EU on its lack of support for innovation, declaring that Europe is falling behind. The full report, published on the ECB website, states that European “innovation is blocked at… Read More

October 1, 2024 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fireblocks, an enterprise platform to manage digital asset operations and build innovative businesses on blockchain, announces that it has joined forces with Ownera, a provider of tokenization interoperability routers, to enhance the Fireblocks Network, the digital asset network providing direct connectivity to crypto capital markets…. Read More

October 1, 2024 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European Payments Initiative (EPI), a European entity claiming to be focused on offering a sovereign payment alternative to all consumers in the region, announced the launch of Wero. The European instant account-to-account payment solution will be available to French customers of BNP Paribas, Groupe BPCE,… Read More

October 1, 2024 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FOLK2FOLK, the UK’s peer to peer lending company, has announced Carlos Howard as its new Head of Business Development. Carlos brings over 20 years of leadership “experience in financial services, legal, and manufacturing sectors, with a focus on sales, customer care, operations, and strategic roles.”… Read More

October 1, 2024 @ 5:59 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Recently the United Kingdom’s Department for Business and Trade published its annual Investing in Women Code report. It finds that venture capital fund managers who have signed up to the Code are more likely to invest in female founders. Roughly one in three (32%) of… Read More

September 30, 2024 @ 9:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dante Disparte, Chief Strategy Officer; Head, Global Policy, Circle Internet Financial, notes that with the emergence of fast-evolving fintechs, regulators have sought ways to keep pace with their activities and technologies, “not only in the spirit of leveling the playing field, but also to keep… Read More

September 30, 2024 @ 9:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm TrueLayer recently shared its FY2023 report. TrueLayer has reported £12 million of revenue and £55 million in total losses for this financial period. Truelayer is Europe’s open banking network, enabling service providers to onboard users, accept money and carry out payouts within a… Read More

September 30, 2024 @ 9:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LiveFlow has reportedly raised a $13.5 million Series A round in order to modernize accounting and inspire the next generation of accountants. Lasse Kalkar, CEO, LiveFlow noted that the accounting industry is undoubtedly facing major challenges, with “one of the most pressing being a severe… Read More

September 30, 2024 @ 9:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NYDIG Research has shared an extensive updated highlight the path for options on Bitcoin ETFs along with other key blockchain and crypto industry insights. With the SEC approving IBIT options, the research report from NYDIG looks “at the next steps required for options to begin… Read More

September 30, 2024 @ 9:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nexo, the institution for digital assets, today announced its strategic membership in the Colombia Fintech Association. This move comes as Nexo experiences “a 73% surge in local clients, using Nexo’s crypto-yield products, underlining the company’s significant expansion into Colombia‘s flourishing crypto market.” Nexo’s membership in… Read More

September 30, 2024 @ 4:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

Growth Capital Ventures (GCV) , an online investment platform based in the UK, is reporting on an exit from QikServ – a company that sold shares on the GCV platform. QikServ has been acquired by The Access Group, according to the company. QikServe is a… Read More

September 30, 2024 @ 1:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto markets moved sideways in Q3 2024, as measured by the FTSE/Grayscale Crypto Sectors family of indexes. This, according to an extensive report from Grayscale. Grayscale noted in its report that changes to the FTSE/Grayscale family of indexes this year highlight emergent themes “for the… Read More

September 30, 2024 @ 12:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS) is now open for applications. Digital securities, or tokenized assets, are widely believed to be the future of the securities sector. While anticipation of the migration to digital from more analog issuance and trading of securities has been predicted for… Read More

September 30, 2024 @ 10:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BUSINESSNEXT, a global enabler of composable enterprise solutions for financial services, has partnered with MongoDB to support autonomous operations enhanced with predictive and generative AI for banking as well as insurance. Headquartered in New York, MongoDB enables industry participants to create, transform, and enhance various… Read More

September 30, 2024 @ 9:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm OKX has released its 23rd Proof of Reserves Snapshot, reporting $19.4 billion in primary assets that are said to be backing customer funds. With the collapse of numerous crypto exchanges over the years, with FTX being among the most notable, it has… Read More

September 30, 2024 @ 8:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK Fintech firm Codat has recently released its FY 2023 report. The UK based Fintech Codat is reporting a modest £14 million in total revenue for this period a swell as £34 million in losses for the same financial period. Codat is a UK-headquartered fintech… Read More

September 30, 2024 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Building on the multimarket partnership to enable flexible payments adoption in the region, Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and ZOOD, one of the digital lending platforms for e-commerce in the Middle East and Central Asia, has introduced a BNPL card – ZOOD Card – in Uzbekistan. The… Read More

September 30, 2024 @ 8:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Scila AB, the Stockholm-based independent provider of trade surveillance, risk management and anti-money laundering (AML) technology has announced that Erste Group, a European financial institution, has implemented Scila Surveillance. Scila Surveillance is a trade surveillance cloud-powered solution meant for comprehensive monitoring of trading activities across… Read More

September 30, 2024 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle, a global financial technology firm, releases its first Global Impact Report on the grounds of the United Nations. Examples in the report from Circle reportedly demonstrate the “inherent” power of open blockchain-based financial infrastructure to streamline aid delivery as well as remittances for humanitarian… Read More

September 29, 2024 @ 11:15 pm By Michael Wong  |  

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have seized more than $6 million in cryptocurrency from international perpetrators involved in fraudulent investment schemes, according to an official announcement. Matthew M. Graves, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, along with U.S. Attorney Francis M. Hamilton III… Read More