February 23, 2023 @ 1:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In the constantly evolving world of payment solutions, transaction volumes are “growing exponentially.” Scaling securely and compliantly is “key,” according to an update from Napier. Lyra Group, the €79 million turnover European and unified payment solutions provider processing over twenty billion transactions worldwide annually, has… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Purpose-driven fintech Mission Lane announced it is expanding its partnership with the data network Plaid in order “to bring secure open finance solutions to its two million-plus customers.” The expanded partnership “leverages Plaid’s innovative open finance API data connectivity solution, which allows customers to securely… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 11:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ALMIS International is pleased to announce that GB Bank, which was awarded their full banking license in August 2022, have chosen “to add additional ALMIS International products as it continues to drive forward its ambitious growth plans.” Having already trusted ALMIS International for their ALM… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 11:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SmartSave Bank, the savings brand of UK digital bank Chetwood Financial, has today announced a new partnership with Flagstone, the UK’s cash deposit platform. Flagstone claims it is “the UK’s largest smart cash platform for corporate, charitable and individual clients.” It offers “a choice of… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 9:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UAE-based Fintech firm InvestSky has launched a social investing platform with assistance from Alpaca. InvestSky is a social investing platform that “offers a new generation of investors the opportunity to embark on trading stocks in a more inclusive, intuitive, and informed way.” InvestSky was established… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 9:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Vietnam’s Fintech start-up GIMO has announced the first close of its Series A funding with a US$5.1 million investment “led by TNB Aura.” Other investment firms joining the investment round “are returning investors including Integra Partners, Resolution Ventures, Blauwpark Partners, ThinkZone Ventures, and Y Combinator.”… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 6:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AML RightSource, the provider of Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC) and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) compliance solutions, announced that Florida-based bank Banesco USA has “selected its Automated EDD (Enhanced Due Diligence) solution for efficient, compliant customer risk reviews with streamlined, AI processes that… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 6:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

DealMaker, a tech platform designed to streamline online capital formation and broker-dealer, has appointed Chris Adamkowski as its new Chief Revenue Officer. Adamkowski reportedly spent over a decade at Google working in several divisions, including Financial Services, Government, Energy, and Tech. Before joining Google, Adamkowski held Sales and… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 6:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced the launch of Enhanced Issuer Network, a set of partnerships with major US card issuers. Stripe provides secure access “to transaction fraud scores from Stripe Radar, its fraud prevention solution, through an encrypted pathway with issuers including… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 5:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) have tightened requirements for platforms in the crypto exchange sector. The CSA is an entity that works to coordinate regulation with the various provincial and territorial securities regulators. Unlike the US Securities and Exchange Commission, it does not have federal… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 5:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) launched the linkage between Singapore’s PayNow and India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI). This will “enable customers of participating financial institutions in Singapore and India [1] to send and receive funds between bank… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sentio has raised $6.4 million to bring modern observability to decentralized applications. The investment round was “led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from industry leaders Hashkey Capital, Canonical Crypto, Essence VC and GSR Ventures.” The Sentio team “consists of veteran engineers from Google, Linkedin,… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 12:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Radiant Capital, a decentralized money market, has integrated Chainlink Price Feeds on Arbitrum mainnet. By integrating the decentralized oracle network, Radiant Capital “has access to high-quality, tamper-proof price feeds needed to help calculate the value of assets deposited on our protocol.” This will give their… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 11:44 am By JD Alois  |  

  The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Investor Advisory Committee (IAC), has scheduled a meeting to take place on Thursday, March 2nd, 2023. The IAC was created under the D0dd-Frank Act and is designed to advise the Commission on initiatives aimed at representing individual investors,… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 10:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris recently announced that the Department has “enhanced its ability to detect fraud and other illegal activity among New York State-regulated entities engaged in virtual currency activity through new insider trading and market manipulation… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 10:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Wise (LSE:WISE) has announced a partnership with G-P (Globalization Partners), a global employment platform. Wise will now enable the payments of freelancers and contractors around the world. Wise is a top payments and transfers provider that is also an emerging stealth bank. By working with G-P,… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 10:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Crypto Incident Response Center (CIRC) of Uppsala Security, a South Korean blockchain virtual asset regulatory technology (RegTech) specialist, has recently released its 2022 CIRC Statistical Report. The report is “based on submissions received directly from victims of virtual asset crimes in South Korea, offering… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 8:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Tokeny Enables another Digital Security with VC Fund. Emprendeduros has launched a tokenized VC fund. Co-founded by entrepreneurs Rodrigo Navarro and Alejandro Salomon, Emprendeduros is a media firm/podcast series that has developed a popular Spanish entrepreneurship show with up to 1.2 million weekly listeners. As… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) published a report on the financial stability risks of Decentralised Finance (DeFi). DeFi is commonly “used to describe services in crypto-asset markets that aim to replicate some functions of the traditional financial system in a supposedly decentralized manner – though… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klink Finance, a crypto startup based in London, has received its initial authorization to offer its cryptocurrency services across the European Union. Klink is “building a Prize Linked Wallet that offers cryptocurrency investors the opportunity to store their funds and earn regular rewards on top… Read More