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UK’s Metro Bank Provides £45M Invoice Finance Facility to Mach Recruitment

Mach Recruitment, a Leeds based specialist recruitment business has agreed a £45m invoice finance facility with Metro Bank. As a specialist recruitment business working in the ecommerce and food sectors, Mach Recruitment will use the financing “to support its acquisition ambitions and continued desire to… Read More

Revolut Introduces New Cryptocurrency Trading Platform for UK Retail Clients

Revolut has launched Revolut X, which is described as a standalone / independent cryptocurrency trading platform that’s offered to the Fintech firm’s UK retail clients. Revolut launched in the United Kingdom, providing fund transfers back in 2015 and started enabling users to purchase, hold and… Read More

Digital Assets: tradias Provides Regulated Crypto Liquidity to Institutional Traders via Talos

tradias GmbH, which claims to be one of Europe’s leading trading firms specializing in cryptocurrency trading and digital asset services, announced an integration with Talos, the  provider of institutional trading technology for digital assets, that would deliver the liquidity provision services of tradias “to institutional… Read More

Regtech Socure Releases Document and Biometric Identity Fraud Report

Socure, the provider of artificial intelligence for digital identity verification, sanction screening, and fraud prevention, released its inaugural Document and Biometric Identity Fraud Report, detailing the rampant use of fake government-issued IDs and the techniques used to fool legacy document verification systems. According to the… Read More

Poor Investment Governance May Cost Australia’s Asset Owners Significant Sums – Report

Poor investment governance could cost asset owners, and in turn their customers, significant sums – in the case of a super fund member as much as $500,000 over their working lives, a new report by KPMG Australia and Frontier Advisors finds. A survey of institutional… Read More

Regtech Sumsub Is Integrating with CODE, a Travel Rule Compliance Solution for VASPs

Sumsub has announced that it will be integrating with CODE, a Travel Rule compliance solution. Both companies will collaborate to facilitate secure and immediate data sharing among Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs), “aligning with Travel Rule compliance requirements for virtual asset transactions.” In addition to… Read More

DeFi focused Mitosis Announces Seed Funding Round with Amber Group and Foresight Ventures as Lead Investors

The team at Mitosis has reportedly secured a total of $7M in funding, which is considered by them to be a testament to the “trust” and “belief” of industry’s investors and strategic partners, including the lead investors Amber Group and Foresight Ventures. With this strong… Read More

Grupo Bancolombia to Offer Crypto Trading via Wenia

Grupo Bancolombia has launched “Wenia Ltd.” a new entity enabling crypto trading. According to a corporate statement, Wenia will provide digital asset services exclusively for Colombian residents through its platform. Clients will be able to trade various digital assets, including Wenia’s own COPW, a stablecoin… Read More

Crypto.com Reportedly Surpasses 100 Million Global Users

Crypto.com announced it has surpassed the 100 million global user mark – the latest significant milestone for the company founded in 2016 and the industry leader in regulatory compliance, security and privacy. This milestone was reached in the immediate wake of Crypto.com’s latest Fortune Favors… Read More

Global Hash Rate Since Bitcoin (BTC) Halving Has Had No Significant Impact as Anticipated – Report

The Bitcoin (BTC) ecosystem recently observed a monumental event in its 15-year history with the eagerly anticipated fourth halving, signaling “a significant shift in the blockchain landscape,” the Compass Mining team noted in their latest analysis. Halvings, occurring roughly every four years, “drastically reduce the… Read More

Bitcoin Price Downturn Not of Particular Concern Given the Historical Context of BTC Markets – Report

Recently, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) implemented substantial adjustments to its collateral consideration for bitcoin (or any other cryptocurrency) ETFs, the NYDIG team noted. After the changes, no collateral value “will be given to any bitcoin ETF, giving them a 100% haircut.” The… Read More

UK’s PensionBee Analysis: 10% of Defined Contribution Pension Savers’ Money Invested in US Tech Giants

Pension savers wondering where their investments go while they build-up their pension pots may be surprised to learn that millions of pounds “are funding some of the world’s largest technology corporations,” the PensionBee team notes. In a recent analysis undertaken by online pension provider PensionBee,… Read More

UK Fintech Tide to Introduce Business Accounts in Germany with Adyen

Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, has partnered with Tide, the UK’s business financial platform, to offer small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) Tide business accounts, first in Germany before potentially expanding further into Europe. Following its announcement of strategic… Read More

UK Fintech GoCardless Selected By Topps Tiles to Launch Trade Pay Offering

Topps Tiles, the UK’s tile specialist, has tapped bank payments company GoCardless to power the payments behind Trade Pay, its newly launched trade credit scheme which gives traders the ability to regularly pay on credit in Topps Tiles stores. Thanks to GoCardless, traders can now… Read More

Real-Time Transactions Report: Irreconcilable Nature of Instant Payments Considered a Notable Feature

Instant payments, also called real-time payments, are a form of electronic payment that is said to be “available 24/7/365, with the payment processed and funds made available to the recipient instantly,” the latest Juniper Research report explains. However, there is not a singularly accepted definition… Read More

Enterprise Fintechs Continued to Claim Higher Portion of VC Deal Value than Retail Fintech Firms – Report

PitchBook has released their latest retail Fintech ecosystem report. PitchBook has commented on their Total deal value: They claim to  have reportedly “recorded $3.2 billion in enterprise fintech VC deal value in Q1 2024, denoting decreases of 36.0% QoQ and 72.9% YoY.” VC deal value… Read More

Auditability of Data in Crypto Is One of the Blockchain Industry’s Most Defining Characteristics – Report

Centralized exchanges (CEX’s) serve as a crucial intermediary between crypto market participants and blockchain networks, “facilitating billions of dollars of value transferred each day,” the Coin Metrics team noted. Many user’s first interaction with crypto is “likely to occur through an exchange.” However, exchanges vary… Read More

Sui and Google Cloud to Enable Web3 Innovation with Enhanced Security, Scalability, AI Capabilities

Sui, the Layer 1 blockchain and smart contract platform created and launched by the core research team responsible for building Facebook’s Libra and Diem projects, is collaborating with Google Cloud to support the future of Web3, via a partnership with Mysten Labs. This joint effort… Read More

BitGo, the Digital Asset Custody and Wallet Solutions Provider, Appoints Brett Reeves for European Expansion Efforts

BitGo, the custody and wallet solutions provider for digital assets, hires Brett Reeves for BitGo’s expansion in Europe. Brett brings 20+ years of experience in traditional finance to BitGo, “including work for various global investment banks within their Prime Brokerage and OTC Clearing sales teams.”… Read More

NFT Lending Volume Reportedly Exceeded $2.1B in Q1 2024

The CoinGecko team has recently examined NFT or non-fungible token lending volumes which have reportedly surpassed $2.1B in Q1, led by Blend. The CoinGecko has examined what they consider to be the top NFT lending platforms. According to the research report, Blend is said to… Read More

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