Strategy

January 21, 2022 @ 10:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Bitcoin is tanking. Around the beginning of the year, Bitcoin was trading at over $50,000. Today, BTC has lost a dramatic amount of value trading at under $40,000. While Bitcoin is not alone in its decline (Ethereum has crashed too), BTC is the most popular… Read More

January 20, 2022 @ 10:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfund Insider, a leading news and information website covering the emerging global industry of disruptive finance including investment crowdfunding, blockchain, and other forms of Fintech, has launched a six-part webinar series exploring and evaluating the ongoing US crowdfunding revolution, starting in February 2022. The JOBS… Read More

January 18, 2022 @ 9:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Truebill notes that the new year can be a good time to “reset your finances,” and they would like to help you out with that. The company recently shared some practical ways to help improve your finances in 2022. The firm recommends… Read More

January 13, 2022 @ 1:17 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

    Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies and NFTs are more trusted than stocks to give investors better returns in 2022, suggests a poll of close to 6,000 people on business networking site LinkedIn. The poll, conducted over the past two weeks, finds 30 per cent of… Read More

January 11, 2022 @ 12:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Genesis, a crypto prime brokerage, has published a report covering last month (December 2021). According to Genesis, their perspective shows that Bitcoin acts more like a “risk asset” than an inflation hedge – something many observers frequently ascribe to BTC. The firm said that the… Read More

January 10, 2022 @ 4:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Callie Cox, the US-based Investment Analyst at eToro, notes that she’s always thinking about how market moves and headlines affect your finances. Starting January 7, 2022, Cox confirmed that she’ll be publishing a weekly blog, titled The Bottom Line, which will look into what’s happening… Read More

January 5, 2022 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finland’s card-as-a-service (CaaS) platform Enfuce, which recently finalized a €45 million Series C round, notes that client expectations and competition in the banking sector are “getting tougher all the time.” Denise Johansson, Co-Founder, Chief Commercial Officer & Deputy CEO at Enfuce, writes in a blog… Read More

January 2, 2022 @ 9:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Like any industry, venture capitalism is “a shifting landscape with ebbs and flows, though to be fair, it hasn’t really ‘ebbed’ lately,” according to a blog post by US Fintech Unicorn Brex. The VC industry has seen tremendous growth during the past few years—one that’s… Read More

December 28, 2021 @ 5:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Peer-to-peer lending has become an increasingly popular strategy among online investors. Platforms like Prosper have brought the P2P lending model “into the spotlight,” according to an update from YieldStreet, a multi-asset alternative investment platform that’s focused on reducing friction and offering “previously unattainable” access to alternatives… Read More

December 26, 2021 @ 3:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSNC) announced an investment in a newly incorporated firm established by the combination of Equiniti and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, recently acquired by affiliates of Siris Capital Group, LLC (together with its affiliates, “Siris”). The announcement noted that… Read More

December 22, 2021 @ 11:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) have announced an agreement for Mastercard to acquire McDonald’s personalization platform and decision engine company, Dynamic Yield. As mentioned in the announcement, Dynamic Yield’s tech is a valuable addition to Mastercard’s extensive suite of services that assist brands… Read More

December 21, 2021 @ 9:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

James Butterfill, Investment Strategist at London-based CoinShares, a digital asset manager focused on expanding access to the cryptocurrency ecosystem while serving as a “trusted partner” for its clients, notes in a blog post published on Monday (December 20) that for the week ending December 17,… Read More

December 20, 2021 @ 6:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Go for gold investments, the team at Paytm (NSE: PAYTM) recommends. Paytm writes in a blog post that gold is a “sought-after asset, the world over.” The Fintech firm gives the example of an Olympian seeking out that “glistening gold medal.” Paytm adds that this… Read More

December 20, 2021 @ 9:00 am By Chantelle Arneaud  |  

Our third year of living with Covid-19 is about to start. Given the new omicron variant, we anxiously wait to see if it causes a spike in infection, which may cause a downward turn in economic growth. What does this mean for equity fundraising in… Read More

December 14, 2021 @ 1:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

SupraFin, a platform that offers professional quality crypto investing services, has now launched an Android app to complement its already released Apple version. SupraFin is a Wealthtech platform for cryptocurrencies founded by financial services industry professionals with more than 20 years of experience in cryptocurrencies,… Read More

December 13, 2021 @ 11:26 am By JD Alois  |  

CoinShares reports that $88 million flowed into digital assets last week during a time of significant volatility as Bitcoin moves lower, well off of all-time highs. CoinShares adds that while some providers experienced inflows others experienced outflows representing as much as 11% of assets under… Read More

December 13, 2021 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As we head towards the end of 2021, EstateGuru’s Head of Global sales, Mihhail Onohhov reflects back over the activities of the past year, and he also tries to look ahead to what he expects from 2022. As the person tasked with EstateGuru‘s sales strategy,… Read More

December 12, 2021 @ 12:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital lending software provider Blend (NYSE:BLND) notes that the need to keep up with evolving customer behavior in retail and online banking is “not a new pursuit for financial services organizations, but it is becoming increasingly more important.” According to Blend, that’s because the market… Read More

December 9, 2021 @ 11:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Avast (LSE:AVST), an international provider of digital security and privacy, has announced the acquisition of Evernym. The US firm was “instrumental to the invention of self-sovereign identity, with leading contributions from their Chief Trust Officer, Drummond Reed, and others in the company working within the… Read More

December 5, 2021 @ 5:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin-focused Fintech firm Blockstream has published its Markets Weekly report., Blockstream‘s report, dated December 3, 2021, notes that Fidelity has established a new BTC ETF in Canada, while GS is considering BTC lending. As mentioned in the report, VanEck has filed for a mining ETF,… Read More