May 4, 2023 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ingka Investments has made a minority investment together with Creades in Swedish based credit information startup called Kreditz, a Nordic market leader in credit scoring and verification services based on Open Banking and PSD2 data. The investment is “part of Kreditz’s latest funding round with… Read More

May 4, 2023 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The transformation of the venture capital industry over the past year has been “stark,” according to a recent update shared by Carta. Carta writes in a blog post that the total venture capital “raised by startups plunged 80% from Q1 2022 to Q1 2023.” Venture… Read More

May 4, 2023 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Allica Bank claims it is one of the “fastest” UK Fintechs to hit profitability – “becoming monthly profitable in June 2022, less than three years after securing a banking license – and achieving a £3m pre-tax profit in the second half of the year.” Allica… Read More

May 3, 2023 @ 10:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ADIA Lab, the Abu Dhabi-based institute dedicated to basic and applied research in data and computational sciences, has partnered with CrunchDAO, a research team of data scientists leveraging Web3 and machine learning to produce next-generation financial insights, “to launch the ADIA Lab Market Prediction competition… Read More

May 3, 2023 @ 10:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CYTRIO, a next-generation data privacy compliance company, introduced a comprehensive data privacy UX platform that includes consent and preference management, do not sell my information, Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) management, and policy templates in one data privacy compliance platform. Businesses of all sizes “can… Read More

May 3, 2023 @ 10:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Video is a popular and engaging form of media that creators leverage to connect with their communities and share content across platforms. And as such, it has played a crucial role in the development of the online creator economy. However, there have been some limitations… Read More

May 3, 2023 @ 8:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Appdome, the mobile app economy’s one and only Cyber Defense Automation platform,  announced that it has released a pre-built integration between its platform and GitLab, the scalable enterprise DevSecOps platform for software innovation. The new integration is “part of Appdome’s Dev2Cyber Partner initiative to accelerate… Read More

May 3, 2023 @ 7:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DailyPay, Inc., a solutions provider in on-demand pay of earned wages and a Workday Access Software Partner, announced that it has achieved Workday Certified Integration status. With this certification, DailyPay provides customers “with a seamless integration that connects with Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) and… Read More

May 3, 2023 @ 7:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

The House Financial Services Committee has announced two new hearings of note – both scheduled for Wednesday, May 10th. First, the Committee will hold a hearing on the recent bank failures as bank carcasses continue to pile up. The Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Monetary… Read More

May 3, 2023 @ 6:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Perhaps Jamie Dimon’s All Clear regarding the bank crisis – telling everyone to take a deep breath after JP Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) took over First Republic Bank (NYSE:FRC) was a bit premature. In after-hours trading, PacWest’s (Pacific Western Bank) (NASDAQ:PACW) shares are cratering – currently… Read More

May 3, 2023 @ 5:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

InvestX Markets LLC, a private equity marketplace that empowers broker-dealers to invest in pre-IPO companies through single-issuer SPVs, multi-issuer funds and secondary market trading, announced a new partnership with Caplight Technologies, Inc., “to enhance data and improve price discovery through its trading platform, InvestX GEM… Read More

May 3, 2023 @ 5:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paymentology, the global issuer-processor, announces a strategic partnership with Nomo Bank, which claims to be the world’s “first” fully digital Sharia-compliant cross-border bank. Nomo, part of the Bank of London and The Middle East (BLME), and backed by Boubyan Bank, “offers Middle East customers a… Read More

May 3, 2023 @ 5:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Following the Investor and Marketplace Alert dated 12 April 2023 in relation to opnx.com (OPNX) conducting unregulated activity, Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) has issued “a formal Letter of Reprimand to OPNX and its founders” for the following: Carrying out VA Exchange Services on… Read More

May 3, 2023 @ 3:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

The US Federal Reserve announced a 25 bps increase in benchmark interest rates matching market expectations. While some held hopes for a pause this week, prognosticators are now looking forward to the next meeting in June. What did change in the Federal Open Market Committee… Read More

May 3, 2023 @ 1:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mantle, a high-performance, modular Ethereum layer-2 network, has announced a partnership with Ankr ahead of its upcoming mainnet launch in Q2 2023. Ankr, a web3 development hub and node infrastructure provider, is “the latest partner to join the Mantle ecosystem, and will be the first… Read More

May 3, 2023 @ 1:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitdeer Technologies Group (NASDAQ: BTDR), a technology company for the cryptocurrency mining community, and Druk Holding & Investments (DHI), the commercial arm of the Royal Government of Bhutan, announce a strategic partnership in order “to develop environmentally sustainable, carbon-free digital asset mining operations in the… Read More

May 3, 2023 @ 10:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In Q2 2021 Fintechs Hit Peak Valuation of 20X Revenue  Financial technology revenues are projected to grow sixfold from $245 billion to $1.5 trillion by 2030, according to a report released by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and QED Investors. At the same time, since April… Read More

May 3, 2023 @ 10:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Boxabl, a pre-fab housing manufacturer that has generated significant interest among consumers, is planning to return to StartEngine for its next funding round, according to an email from the platform. In August of 2022, Boxabl closed a Reg A+ securities offering at around $24 million…. Read More

May 3, 2023 @ 10:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The B.C. Securities Commission recently alleged that a defunct cryptocurrency platform based in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island allegedly carried out a massive securities fraud by intentionally and illegally diverting customer funds to crypto gambling websites. In a notice issued in April 2023, the Commission said… Read More

May 3, 2023 @ 8:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Private equity markets around the world remain subdued due to economic challenges and geopolitical strife. At the same time, online capital formation, a growing component of capital markets, remains robust – at least in the US. According to a report by Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA),… Read More