Global

January 14, 2024 @ 4:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SlowMist has been analyzing the attacks and major incidents of 2023. SlowMist‘s latest report will focus on the anti-money laundering (AML) trends in the blockchain sector for the same year. Thanks to the support of our InMist Intelligence Network partners, SlowMist aided clients, partners, and… Read More

January 14, 2024 @ 4:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

VanEck, a global investment fund manager with $76.4 billion USD in assets under management, announced recently the listing of its spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) under the ticker HODL, with Gemini named as custodian. Both Gemini and VanEck claim that they “have been pioneers in… Read More

January 14, 2024 @ 4:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BIGG Digital Assets Inc. (CSE: BIGG), an innovator in the digital assets space and owner of TerraZero, Netcoins, and Blockchain Intelligence Group is pleased to announce select unaudited financial results for Netcoins’ Q4 2023 and the launch of its Crypto Trading API. Assets under Management… Read More

January 14, 2024 @ 4:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinShares International Limited (Nasdaq Stockholm: CS; US OTCQX: CNSRF) announced it has exercised the option to acquire Valkyrie Funds LLC, the U.S. digital asset manager’s investment advisory business specializing “in actively managed cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds, from Valkyrie Investments Inc.” CoinShares‘ decision to exercise this option… Read More

January 14, 2024 @ 3:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitpanda has commented on why they think spot Bitcoin ETFs are a “game-changer” for the crypto market. Bitpanda notes in a blog post the crypto world has “reached an important milestone as major financial institutions receive approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)… Read More

January 14, 2024 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a global enabler of mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced that a UK retailer Co-op has successfully moved its full stack of payments and fraud prevention technology software into ACI’s multi-tenant cloud platform hosted in Microsoft Azure. As a strategic technology partner… Read More

January 14, 2024 @ 7:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CaixaBank and KfW IPEX-Bank are jointly providing HOCHTIEF financing for the interim construction financing of the PPP project Frankfurt (Germany) judiciary center. The project volume is in the low three-digit million range and “includes the parallel construction of two new judicial buildings in the Frankfurt… Read More

January 14, 2024 @ 4:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Valmar Capital,  a digital assets multi-manager multi-strategy platform that brings together a broad array of crypto-strategies and emerging talent, has taken a look ahead to comment on key anticipated developments to watch in 2024. Valmar Capital, which says its approach is backed by institutional-grade infrastructure,… Read More

January 13, 2024 @ 4:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Spectrum Markets, the pan-European trading venue for securities saw a surge in overnight activity on products “linked to bitcoin, in the hours following the SEC’s announcement approving the first spot bitcoin ETF.” The volume of bitcoin-linked instruments “traded on Spectrum Wednesday was five times higher… Read More

January 13, 2024 @ 10:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

According to Office for National Statistics data published recently, there is now a record number of people in the UK “aged over 90 in England and Wales, up by 2.1% in 2022 to 550,835 people,” the team at PensionBee noted. The number of centenarians (people… Read More

January 13, 2024 @ 10:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Open Campus announced that Open Campus ID, its decentralized identifier (DID), will launch on 23 January to “connect potentially millions of learners from Open Campus’ network of partners to Web3 education through the Open Campus Alliance.” The Open Campus Alliance is described as “an ecosystem… Read More

January 13, 2024 @ 10:39 am By Michael Wong  |  

Finoa, a Berlin, Germany-based regulated crypto platform catering to smart capital allocators, announced that it has successfully raised $15 million in a fresh funding round. The investment was co-led by Maven 11 Capital and Balderton Capital, with additional contributions from Blue Bay Ventures, Signature Ventures,… Read More

January 13, 2024 @ 10:37 am By Michael Wong  |  

Prometeo, a Latin America-focused Fintech infrastructure firm, announced that it had secured $13 million in Series A funding led by Antler Elevate. The round also saw participation from new investors, including PayPal Ventures, Samsung Next, and partners from DN Capital, as well as continued support… Read More

January 13, 2024 @ 6:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fill/ Refill, a Northamptonshire family-run manufacturer has received over £600k of financing from Metro Bank in order to “help it achieve its aspirations to be the most responsible closed-loop maker and supplier in the UK.” The independent business formulates, designs and “creates a range of… Read More

January 12, 2024 @ 10:37 am By JD Alois  |  

The pan-European payments Finteh Lemonway says it doubled revenue in 2023 when compared to 2022. During the year, Lemonway reports that it processed €9.6 billion, or a 24% increase compared to 2022. Lemonway works with some big names like SNCF. Decathlon, Drouot and others. In… Read More

January 12, 2024 @ 9:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Switzerland-based payments Fintech Rivero has raised a $7 million series A funding round, according to the company. The funding was led by 6 Degrees Capital and Inference Partners, with participation from PostFinance, Kraken Ventures, Seed X Liechtenstein, and former COO of Adyen, Robert Kraal, and… Read More

January 12, 2024 @ 9:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fenergo, the provider of digital solutions for client lifecycle management (CLM), know your customer (KYC) and transaction monitoring, released its annual findings on global financial institution enforcement actions, which reveal that “the value of penalties imposed on firms surged 57% in 2023.” Penalties for failing… Read More

January 12, 2024 @ 8:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Recruitment intentions remained subdued as 2023 drew to a close, according to the latest KPMG and REC, UK Report on Jobs survey, compiled by S&P Global. Permanent placements and temp billings “declined again in December, albeit at softer rates than in November, as employers maintained… Read More

January 12, 2024 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Galaxy Asset Management, which claims to be one of the largest digital assets and blockchain investment managers, in partnership with Invesco Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ), a global provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), announced the launch of the Invesco Galaxy Bitcoin ETF (BTCO). BTCO invests directly in… Read More

January 12, 2024 @ 8:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ransomware incidents reported to UK financial regulators doubled in 2023, according to an extensive update shared with CI. A Picus Security FOI analysis of cyber incidents reported “to the Financial Conduct Authority reveals an increase in ransomware incidents in the first half of 2023.” Picus… Read More