December 2, 2022 @ 1:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

According to bankruptcy managers, FTX and most of its subsidiaries are resuming ordinary course payments of salary and benefits to employees worldwide as well as payments to certain non-US contractors and service providers. New FTX CEO John J. Ray III said: “With the Court’s approval… Read More

December 2, 2022 @ 12:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Tweeq, a Saudi Fintech, has become one of the first Fintechs in the Kingdom to receive an e-money license from The Saudi Central Bank (SAMA). The e-Money license from SAMA will allow Tweeq to launch a “super app” providing neobank features and services tailored to… Read More

December 2, 2022 @ 12:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra announced that Clinc, the conversational AI specialist serving global financial institutions, will “deliver its Virtual Banking Assistant technology fully integrated within Finastra’s Fusion Digital Banking platform.” The application “enables Finastra’s bank and credit union customers, utilizing Fusion Digital Banking as their digital platform, to… Read More

December 2, 2022 @ 12:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Technology Association (FTA) has selected Leigh Lytle, head of North American Policy at Plaid, as the 2023 Chair of the FTA Board of Directors. Before joining Plaid, Lytle spent more than 15 years at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. According to… Read More

December 2, 2022 @ 10:56 am By JD Alois  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), in partnership with The Digital Dollar Project (DDP) and Accenture, has published a white paper titled “Exploring Post-Trade Security Settlement with a US Central Bank Digital Currency.” The paper outlines the findings of a pilot project exploring how… Read More

December 2, 2022 @ 10:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Decimal, a Fintech company offering bookkeeping and accounting operations for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs),  announced it “has acquired the cloud-based bookkeeping service and certain other assets of KPMG Spark, owned by Big Four tax, accounting and advisory firm KPMG LLP.” Financial terms “were not… Read More

December 2, 2022 @ 9:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Tether (USDT), currently the most popular dollar-based stablecoin with a market cap of around $65 billion, has responded to an article in WSJ.com questioning the firm about its stablecoin-issued loans and affiliated risk. In an article published yesterday (December 1, 2022), the author claimed that… Read More

December 2, 2022 @ 8:30 am By JD Alois  |  

CrowdProperty, a property investment platform,  has appointed Richard Sinfield as Head of Compliance. The company said the new hire represents its commitment of the business to operating with the highest ethical standards and levels of transparency. Seinfield said CrowdProperty has an excellent reputation in the… Read More

December 2, 2022 @ 8:20 am By JD Alois  |  

LendingClub  (NYSE: LC) has agreed to acquire a $1.05 billion loan portfolio of personal loans that became available following US Bancorp’s acquisition of MUFG Union Bank’s core regional banking franchise. The loans were originated on the LendingClub platform. On September 21, 2021, MUFG and MUFG… Read More

December 2, 2022 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Axway, a provider of API management and integration software, announced new data from its inaugural 2022 Open Everything Strategy Survey Report. Polling nearly 1,000 IT leaders, architects, and developers about their digital strategies and top concerns, the survey “found nearly 40% of organizations are in… Read More

December 1, 2022 @ 11:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Atish Davda, CEO and founder of EquityZen, a secondary market for private securities, says now is the time for people to invest in private firms. While public markets have tanked since the beginning of the year, experiencing exceptional volatility in recent months, and private markets… Read More

December 1, 2022 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has granted a license to MetaComp Pte. Ltd. (f.k.a. Cyberdyne Tech Services Pte. Ltd) “to provide digital payment token services as a Major Payment Institution.” Effective December 2022, MetaComp has been “granted a license under the Payment Services Act,… Read More

December 1, 2022 @ 10:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Inflation is taking its toll on America’s healthcare workers, according to an update from DailyPay. A recent Harris Poll, “among over 2,000 U.S. adults of which nearly 200 are healthcare workers, commissioned by IntelyCare and DailyPay reveals that a majority of healthcare workers across the… Read More

December 1, 2022 @ 10:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Securities Lending market is large — “with more than $2.7 trillion in assets on loan as of 2021 and revenue of $5.45 billion, an increase of 19% year over year,” according to an update shared with CI. Its major function of “facilitating lending and… Read More

December 1, 2022 @ 8:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The DFINITY Foundation, the not-for-profit developing the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) — the “world’s first” web-speed, internet-scale public blockchain – has announced up to $100K in grants “for female developers and entrepreneurs.” The grants aim at encouraging women “to build on the ICP ecosystem providing… Read More

December 1, 2022 @ 7:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

giveback — a tech-enabled platform that helps donors create and manage giving portfolios, working toward a future where philanthropy is efficient, engaging, and personalized — is announcing “the launch of the giving platform in time for the 2022 giving season.” The philanthropic – or Philtech… Read More

December 1, 2022 @ 7:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Philcoin, which claims to be one of the largest philanthropic movements, is changing the way crypto users “view and respond to the current bear market.” Despite the conditions and controversies regarding crypto company fallouts, Philcoin launches products “focused on generating individual wealth and empowerment.” Philcoin’s… Read More

December 1, 2022 @ 5:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has taken action against Edgar Radjabli, operator of Loan Doctor, who allegedly took customer funds and placed them in risky ventures like Celsius Network – a crypto yield platform that is now bankrupt. The complaint filed by the CFPB… Read More

December 1, 2022 @ 5:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) reports that the US District Court for the Southern District of New York has entered a consent order for a permanent injunction, restitution, and equitable relief against Jeremy Spence of Bristol, Rhode Island, who conducted business as Coin Signals…. Read More

December 1, 2022 @ 5:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Daylight, an Application Programming Interface (API) that aggregates Web3 perks all in one place, has raised $3M in a seed round “co-led by Framework Ventures, a venture capital firm known for its early entry into decentralized finance (DeFi), and Chapter One, an early stage venture… Read More