March 25, 2023 @ 7:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MetaMask Institutional, the web3 wallet for organizations developed by ConsenSys, and the first multi-custodial institutional web3 offering on the market, launched its institutional staking marketplace in partnership with Allnodes, Blockdaemon, and Kiln. The marketplace will also “leverage ConsenSys’ own technology with ConsenSys Staking (formerly Codefi… Read More

March 25, 2023 @ 7:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Berlin-based Fintech Raisin has raised €60 million in a series E funding round, from existing and new investors. The global savings and investment specialist recently “exceeded 1 million customers, for which a total of €850 million in interest has been generated since founding the… Read More

March 24, 2023 @ 5:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The economy took a wild ride in 2022, and with interest rates continuing to rise, inflation expected to remain relatively high and household savings dwindling, 2023 could be “just as challenging,” according to an update from TrueAccord. As consumers battle high inflation and interest rates… Read More

March 24, 2023 @ 5:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Consilience, a Private market SaaS provider enabling tokenization of Real Assets making private equity easy to access, has raised 79% (£319,235) of its £400,002 target from 44 investors (at the time of writing) via Seedrs with 28 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding campaign. Located… Read More

March 24, 2023 @ 5:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TYB is now available on the Shopify App Store, making it the “first” end-to-end Web3 community-powered loyalty solution available to Shopify’s merchants through an Avalanche-based platform. The app allows Shopify merchants “to implement TYB’s community-integrated-commerce tools to directly connect with and reward fans for taking… Read More

March 24, 2023 @ 5:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto-asset firm Tether claims it has approximately $1.6 billion in excess reserves in order to fully back the issuance of its USDT stablecoin. Tether expects to record a $700 million profit in this latest March 2023 quarter, which will be taking its total excess reserves… Read More

March 24, 2023 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On a mission to “revolutionize” the way companies collect payments in Latin America, Toku, the platform optimizing collections for subscription companies, announced that it has raised USD $7 million. The investment round was “led by North American venture capital firm F-Prime Capital, accompanied by Wollef,… Read More

March 24, 2023 @ 10:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

High interest rates, persistent inflation, and the denominator effect hit private real estate hard in 2022. This, as private real estate funds “raised $128.6 billion across 267 vehicles, down 28.4% from the $179.6 billion raised by 549 funds in 2021,” according to an update by… Read More

March 24, 2023 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Exit scams, popularly referred to as rug pulls, are “an ongoing criminal scheme in Web3,” according to an update shared by CertiK. CertiK writes in a blog post that a rug pull “involves fraudsters robbing a crypto project by liquidating their holdings without warning and… Read More

March 24, 2023 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  After trying to evade law enforcement for around six months, Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon has now been taken into police custody in Montenegro. Kwon and Terraform Labs were responsible for TerraUSD, an aspiring algorithmic stablecoin, and sister crypto Luna, which collapsed last year… Read More

March 24, 2023 @ 7:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

With signs that strikes may be abating for the time being, new data from small business lender iwoca reveals that UK SMEs have “lost out on 680,000 days of trading per month, due to industrial action.” Cumulatively, this amounts “to four million days of trading… Read More

March 24, 2023 @ 5:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Moody’s is out with a report on the banking crisis, lauding policymakers for their rapid response. At the same time, the research firm states that stress in the banking sector can spread to other sectors while outlining three different possible paths for contagion. The banking… Read More

March 24, 2023 @ 4:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Following the acquisition of fraud detection company Nethone in November 2022, Mangopay continues strengthening its payment flow capabilities “by acquiring WhenThen, a payment orchestration and payments automation platform, providing powerful payment acceptance and payment operations to marketplaces and platforms big and small.” Just four months… Read More

March 23, 2023 @ 11:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) announced the global launch of the working capital and lending capability on its Straight2Bank (S2B) platform, the Bank’s online banking platform for businesses “to manage their transaction banking needs.” S2B Loans is “a new module which allows clients to initiate and… Read More

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

It’s already “trusted,” fully regulated and bringing simplified and secured investing to 20+ million customers, the team at Bitpanda wrote in a blog post. Now, they’re announcing that Visa (NYSE: V) has partnered with Bitpanda, bringing Bitpanda Technology Solutions to its vast network of institutional… Read More

March 23, 2023 @ 9:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rain, a provider of financial wellness products that empower and engage employees, announced that it “raised $116 million, encompassing $66 million in equity and $50M in debt.” QED Investors and Invus Opportunities “led the Series A with participation from firms including WndrCo, Tribe Capital, and… Read More

March 23, 2023 @ 9:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kredivo Holdings, previously operating as FinAccel, has raised $270 million in Series D funding, according to a statement by the company. The funding was led by Mizuho Bank, Ltd., with the participation of Square Peg Capital, Jungle Ventures, Naver Financial Corporation, GMO Venture Partners, and Openspace… Read More

March 23, 2023 @ 9:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank ABC, which claims to be one of MENA’s major international banks, has signed agreements with Temenos and NdcTech in order “to replace its core banking systems for its retail, corporate and wholesale businesses and power its subsidiary, ila Bank, the MENA region’s fast-growing digital… Read More

March 23, 2023 @ 7:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Issuance, a capital raising platform for investment crowdfunding, has partnered with DealPoint, a leading Canadian capital raising platform. DealPoint aims to improve upon the cross-border online investment process for issuers. According to Issuance, DealPoint provides similar technology to their service, which is offered in the… Read More

March 23, 2023 @ 7:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

As part of the deal to reanimate Credit Suisse, Swiss regulators cut a deal with UBS that included writing down the AT1 bonds to zero. Holders are not pleased. In light of the “numerous inquiries,” Swiss regulator FINMA has issued a statement on wiping out… Read More