April 23, 2023 @ 11:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial crime prevention professionals at SEON have released their latest ‘Global Cybercrime Report’, which highlights the varying dangers associated “with cyber threats around the world.” The insightful report “combines data from three major cybersecurity authorities; National Cyber Security Index, the Global Cybersecurity Index, and the… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 10:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Peach Finance recently conducted a survey of fintech lenders in order to obtain their feedback and insights regarding the current state of lending.. As the fintech industry continues to grow and evolve, one of the most promising areas of innovation is lending…. Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 9:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wealthtech firm Addepar has shared their monthly update of activity on their platform along with research insights and client, partner and company developments. Addepar is introducing a visualized ownership structure along with a Global Security Master Entity Name attribute that “enables users to see total… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 8:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wealthtech firm, Farther, has reported assets under management (AUM) of $675 million – representing “nearly 5x year-over-year growth – continuing the firm’s rise since its establishment in 2019.” Founded by Taylor Matthews and Brad Genser, Farther is “a digital wealth management firm that provides a… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 7:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tableland, a permissionless relational database for web3 applications, today announced a $8M Series A round led by CoinFund with participation from Multicoin Capital, Blueyard and A Capital, bringing the company’s total financing to $10.4M. The new funds from the investment round will be used “to… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 6:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Clear Capital, a national real estate valuation technology company, announced an expanded relationship with CoreLogic, a global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, “to assist lenders in modern valuation and appraisal readiness.” Through an existing integration, Clear Capital’s recently launched Universal Data Collection (UDC)… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 6:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced it has filed charges against 14 entities for fraudulently claiming to be registered with the CFTC as futures commission merchants (FCM) and retail foreign exchange dealers (RFED). The bogus platforms claimed to be located in the United Kingdom,… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 6:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The EU Parliament’s passing of the Markets in Crypto Act, or MiCA, on Thursday has been hailed as a “landmark moment” for cryptocurrencies that will “help drive prices” for the likes of Bitcoin. This, according to the CEO of an independent financial advisory, asset management and… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 6:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra research reveals that just one in ten financial institutions are “not currently seeking to integrate fintech solutions, indicating that 90% are actively pursuing new fintech partnerships to improve their offerings.” A key pain point is “the automation of digital workflows, with respondents saying only… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 5:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) has launched a new tool that maps the global footprint of UK Fintechs. The service was created in partnership with Innovate Finance, a UK advocacy group for firms in the Fintech sector. CCAF is the leading research entity… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 5:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Japan’s digital lender, Rakuten Bank, announced on Friday (April 21, 2023) that the common stock of Rakuten Bank, Ltd., (securities code: 5838), a subsidiary of the Rakuten Group, has been listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market. It was “not created for the purpose… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 2:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Gr4vy, the Cloud-native payments infrastructure company, announced Setplex, a full-service IPTV/OTT solutions provider, has selected the company’s cloud-native payment orchestration platform (POP) “to accelerate time-to-market, onboard new merchants and quickly implement locally preferred payment methods.” John Lunn, founder and CEO of Gr4vy, said: “Offering local… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 2:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hyperlane and Caldera are pleased to announce their collaboration “to bring permissionless interoperability between any Caldera rollup and to any EVM chain.” Permissionless interoperability “enables any Caldera rollup to self-deploy the Hyperlane interoperability stack and easily access all of its features, ranging from interchain apps… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 1:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fluree, a company headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, which has developed a graph ledger database and data pipeline toolset for trusted-, interoperable-, secure-data management and sharing, announced it has closed a $10 million Series A funding round led by SineWave Ventures. Eve Atlas, Augment Ventures,… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 1:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tokio Marine Insurans (Malaysia) Berhad, an insurance company in Malaysia, has partnered with KirimMan, a one-stop logistic solution, and Finology, an Asia-Pacific fintech company that specialises in enabling embedded finance, “to offer affordable insurance products for gig economy workers, with a focus on delivery riders.”… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 1:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Gemini is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of Gemini Foundation — a non-US crypto derivatives platform. Their first derivatives contract “will be a BTC perpetual contract denominated in Gemini dollars (GUSD).” An ETH/GUSD perpetual contract “will launch soon thereafter.” Gemini Foundation… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 12:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Celo, the carbon-negative, mobile-first EVM-compatible layer-1 blockchain is now integrated with Safe, the self-custody infrastructure provider and trusted decentralized custody protocol. Users and builders can now use Safe’s custody and asset management solution “natively on the Celo blockchain.” The events of the past year “have… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 10:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Cardano Foundation, an “independent,” Swiss-based non-profit organization tasked with advancing the public digital infrastructure Cardano, launched its inaugural Annual Report today. From technical infrastructure support to spreading knowledge or establishing targeted partnerships and collaborations, the report highlights the Foundation’s work “across its three core… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 7:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Noname Security, the provider of complete and proactive API security, announced its partnership with Wiz, the Cloud security platform and one of the “fastest-growing” software companies, “to help customers improve security posture by enabling complete visibility, context, and control of infrastructure hosting mission-critical and highly… Read More

April 22, 2023 @ 7:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global payment technology firm and mobile point-of-sale pioneer Miura Systems recently announced the launch of its new, elegantly designed, Miura Android Smart POS payment device. MASP reportedly “leverages the collaborative open-source world of Android to make application development and ongoing management simple, seamless and secure.”… Read More